I agree with Ken, same miscreants, same problems, same valid citizen complaints routinely dismissed by the authorities, from the ARDC, to the JIB, to the states attorneys to the FBI, who is doing anything about the same problems enumerated in no less than FOUR GAO reports (published elsewhere on this blog).

During his trial, Ken was asked by the ARDC attorney if he was ashamed for talking about information contained in the GAO (US government reports) and he said, “of course not, it was his constitutional right to discuss government reports” with like mined US citizens.

Of course, it was his constitutional right to discuss US government reports with the public and take the side of the public that their issues, complaints and grievances were perfectly valid and they were right to demand an honest, thorough and competent investigation, when in fact nothing was done.  This is completely in line with the consensus on the internet with the probate blogs–something is seriously amiss and the government has to DO something about it.

Read on:

The pay to play situation – i.e. the nursing home owners  – supported by their kickbacks (referral fees) guardianships etc are so engaged.  The potential victims of elder cleansing can be and are exploited does by subtle remunerations paid by various profit operations to the miscreants.   This situation does not appear to be investigated at this point in time, but, the Wall Street Journal is discussing a similar type operation that is relevant to our problem to wit: Pay to Play Goes to Court Pay to Play Goes to Court A lawsuit charges that tort-bar collusion with prosecutors is illegal, the Wall Street Journal writes in an edit…  This article discusses our issue.   How is that the Judge in the Gore case was so disinterested in the exploitation of Alice Gore, or how she happened to wind up in a nursing home operated by a relative of the guardian ad litem.   Whey was judge so disinterested in the actions of the GAL and why did she (the judge) allow such leeway to the GAL?    We know!  Ditto for the Sykes case.   In fact Judge Connors on page 91 of her evidence deposition told us all about it!   Why was Jerome Larkin so disinterested in the value complaints filed by Gloria Sykes?   you have three guesses and the first five do not count.   Now let us zero in on the problem.  Why are the same GALs always involved in these elder cleansing cases?   Why are the same attorneys always involved?    Of course it can be co-incidence; however, as the same kinky transactions are always present *****.   We need HONEST INVESTIGATIONS of this entire elder cleansing scandal and the cover-up that has been promjulgated the lawyer disciplinary commissions.   As the article points out, Lawyers and Judges, especially those employed by the public, have a special duty to the public – DO JUSTICE.   Making money is incidential.   No one ever put a gun to the lawyers or judges head and told them go into this profession of die!    The Judge in too many cases actually paid off a committeeman large sums of money to become a Judge,* and too many of the miscreant lawyers are saving up to be able to pay the cash incentive needed to be slated for judge.   Corruption in all forms is detestable.   The 18 USCA 371 conspiracy is incidious.    When the conspiracy has advanced to the level that it has in Illinois effective housecleaning must occur – OR ELSE!   The Larkin style prevaracations and frugality with the truth is intolerable and must cease immediately.    I hope I am not beating a dead horse, but the latest scandal at the IARDC must result in Jerome Larkin’s indictment and prosecution.   There is absolutely no excuse for the IARDC paying money to unlicensed professionals and not know that seeking an secret order requiring Ms. Denison to reimburse the agency a penny for the illegal payments is pure Criminal Contempt of Court and Fraud.    As Larkin intentionally misrepresented the ruling of the SCOTUS in both Alvarez and Sawyer and claimed that exposing corruption in the MaryGSykes blog was akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater, summary suspension of his law license and all of the IARDC attorneys 18 USCA 371 involved is more than appropriate – IT IS A NECESSITY to demonstrate the EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAW and that our government is transparent and accountable to Truth and Justice.   Why the Supreme Court of Illinois has not sua sponte acted to address this outrage is a mystery!   It is a defamation of the 2nd oldest profession in spades, doubled and redoubled.  It is suggested that this failure to act in light of 47 USCA 230, Article 1 of the Illinois Constitution and the 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution does not cover the Illinois Supreme Court with glory or enhance the little respect that the public harbors for them.  It is respectfully suggested that this failure to act against Larkin reaffirms the public suspicion of the Illinois Surpeme Court .   It may not be correct for a public official to acknowledge that Grandma is being abused, exploited, denied her rights privileges and communities (elder cleansing) but the fact remains. Similarly the extortion, and intimidation of Grandma’s family and citizens who complain is an inconvenient fact that has to be addressed.    Jerome Larkin by his demonstration of total disrespect for the Law has invited Law Enforcement to make an example of him and the IARDC attorneys who have filed in his name the offending documents.    At some point in time, in a free democratic society, all GOOD MEN (AND WOMEN) MUST STAND UP AND BE COUNTED.   I am strongly suggesting that TODAY is that day. Ken Ditkowsky www.ditkowskylawoffice.com From: kenneth ditkowsky <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com> To: Paul K. Ogden <pogden297@gmail.com>; and 80 others Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 9:36 AM Subject: Re: IPRA routinely obscured how its police investigations played out – just like Jerome larkin and the IARDC – Why is Larkin not in jail? Paul – you are not alone. I cannot think of when I voted for a political candidate.   Most, if not all, are two faced ignoramuses whose sole interest is getting elected.    However, the issue is not Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton – it is what their antics stand for.   I use Hillary as an example as we can see on a daily basis her two faced hypocrisy and how it is ‘covered’ and given legitimacy. As for Trump, he is open and frankly informs us that he has bribed the Clintons and is proud of it.  While I appreciate the candor, the act is untenable. Today’s Wall Street Journal discloses just how perverted the political system has become.  political correctness has become a religion and the current government expects everyone to mouth the party line and if you do not – bingo, you are public enemy number 1. Exxon’s Inquisitors Feel the Heat Exxon’s Inquisitors Feel the Heat By Kimberley A. Strassel Kimberley A. Strassel writes that court filing by Exxon reveal the true aim of this ‘fraud’ investigation by sta… We do not have the Exxon money to fight the corrupt political and judicial elite who seek to take our First Amendment Rights away, but, by pointing out the obscenity maybe we can wean more people to our side and to fight the corruption.   If we make enough sink we might even get a few HONEST INVESTIGATIONS going and a few of the miscreants going to jail. As I was writing this e-mail I remembered I did vote for a Governor candidate.   His name was Dan Walker.  He was the chief corporate attorney at Montgomery Ward and he spoke my language. He impressed me with his honesty and candor and *****. Shortly after Walker became governor he installed one of the most corrupt machines in Illinois history.   I spent the next ten years suing his Illinois Department of Revenue.   The United States of America investigated him and sent him to prison!    I now take the position that I will vote against the most venal of the candidates in the hope that at least we can make that candidate an ordinary citizen again and place her/him in the position wherein they cannot hurt us.    The choice is yours – I am voting for the deep blue sea! I do have to tell you a little story.   I live in Chicago.   In garnering the votes, my Democratic party representative came to my home and politely said:  “Kenny will you vote for me!”    I replied:  “Of course”    When voting day came, I could not find his name on the ballot, so I wrote him for the position of mayor, alderman, ****.    (So did some of my neighbors – at my urging). To my “horror” after the election was over, Joe came to my home kind of unhappy.   He informed me that I must have misunderstood him – he informed me that when he asked me to vote for him, he did not mean that literally – I was to vote for his candidates!   ***** Corruption is our enemy – I am afraid that we have few friends. Ken Ditkowsky www.ditkowskylawoffice.com

$700k to combat corruption in Asia?  What about the US?  We have plenty here.

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I am absolutely stunned to find out the US government is granting $700k to organizations to “fight corruption in Asia” when there is plenty of corruption right here in the good old USA

Who comes up with these lame brained ideas?

JoAnne

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Check this out, this website has FOIA request sample letters for all 50 states!

Welcome

If you don’t know what FOIA is, it is one of the most powerful tools in our arsenal to combat fraud, theft, corruption, cronyism–you name it, you can pretty much FOIA it.

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT means your government does NOT own any documents personally. The documents they have in their possession actually belong to the public and the public can get copies upon a simple written request.  No, really.

I know many of you have run into the court clerk, or the county agency that when you want information, you’re told “it’s private” or “it’s secret”.  Well, no, documents belonging to the public are not private or secret unless the government can show good cause for withholding each and everyone of them.  Generally, that’s a very high standard no state agency or court clerk can ever possibly meet.  A divorce record is not secret, even juvenile records are not secret,they can be redacted.  So this is your tool of choice in litigation where your rights have been abused.

From the website:

I just checked the ARDC website and here it is:

In re Seth Gillman, 16PR0034

a lawyer who the FBI says stole $100 million from the federal government.

Let’s see how long it takes for a non-whistle blower to get disciplined.

No reason for Mr. Gillman not to just turn in his law license

JoAnne

BEFORE THE HEARING BOARD

OF THE

ILLINOIS ATTORNEY REGISTRATION

AND

DISCIPLINARY COMMISSION

COMPLAINT

Jerome Larkin, Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, by his attorney, Scott Renfroe, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 753(b), complains of Respondent Seth Gillman, who was licensed to practice law in Illinois on November 4, 1993, and alleges that Respondent has engaged in the following conduct that subjects him to discipline pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 770:

(Plea of Guilty to Health Care Fraud)

1. On May 22, 2014, a grand jury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois returned an 18-count indictment against Respondent, three other individuals and Passages Hospice, LLC (“Passages”). The indictment identified Respondent as the founder, co-administrator and co-owner of Passages, and charged him with engaging in multiple instances of health care fraud (Counts 1 through 16) and with conspiring to obstruct a federal audit (Count 18), in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1516 and 371.
2. On February 12, 2016, Respondent, his counsel, and the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois entered into a plea agreement by which Respondent pled guilty to the offense of health care fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1347, as originally charged in Count 5 of the indictment.
3. As part of the plea agreement, Respondent stipulated that there was a factual basis for his guilty plea, and that those facts established his guilt of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt. Specifically, Respondent admitted to the facts and conclusions set forth in the following paragraphs.
4. Beginning in 2008 and continuing through 2011, Respondent and others participated in a scheme to cause Passages to submit false claims to Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary hospice care for patients who were not terminally ill, and hospice care that did not qualify for general inpatient services. Respondent submitted claims to a federal contractor and the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services for services that were not medically necessary or were not provided.
5. Respondent knew that Passages regularly billed Medicare and Medicaid for general inpatient services even though he knew that Passages used improper criteria that did not comply with Medicare and Medicaid requirements, and that many of those services were not medically necessary. Respondent and a co-defendant designed and implemented a system at Passages in which bonuses were paid to nursing directors and certified-nursing directors based on the number of patients that were placed on general inpatient care each day. Respondent knew that theses bonuses were not compensation for any additional nursing services, and that the bonuses were designed to be an incentive to put patients on unnecessary general inpatient care.
6. Respondent made decisions at times to put patients on general inpatient care so that Passages could make more money, even when he had no knowledge about the condition of the patient and even though he was not a physician or nurse.
7. In August 2009, Respondent learned that TrustSolutions, which performed audits on behalf of Medicare, had requested patient files, and that two of his co-defendants were directing the alteration of the requested patient files before the files were provided to TrustSolutions. In particular, Respondent knew that some of the files did not contain signed orders from physicians regarding general inpatient care and did not contain nursing notes consistent with patients actually receiving that care, as had been billed. Respondent agreed with others that Passages employees should alter the files to make it falsely appear that the care was appropriately billed. When the alterations were completed in September 2009, Respondent signed letters attesting to the accuracy of the patient files and that the services had been properly billed. Respondent knew that his statements in such letters were not true because the files had been altered and because some of the services had not been properly billed. Respondent also knew that Passages nurses continued to improperly place patients on general inpatient care even after he received two reports regarding the inappropriate use of that level of care in August 2010.
8. By reason of the conduct described above, Respondent has engaged in the following misconduct:
9. committed a criminal act that reflects adversely on his honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in other respects, by committing the offense of health care fraud, in violation of Rule 8.4(a)(3) (1990) and Rule 8.4(b) (2010) of the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct; and
10. conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation, participating in a scheme to charge Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary inpatient hospice services, and by signing letters attesting to the authenticity of altered hospice files, in violation of Rule 8.4(a)(4) (1990) and Rule 8.4(c) of the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct (2010).

WHEREFORE, the Administrator requests that this matter be assigned to a panel of the Hearing Board, that a hearing be held pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 753, and that the panel make findings of fact, conclusions of fact and law, and a recommendation for such discipline as is warranted.

Scott Renfroe
Counsel for Administrator
Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission
130 East Randolph Drive, Suite 1500
Chicago, Illinois 60601-6219
Telephone: (312) 565-2600
E-mail: srenfroe@iardc.org

Now let’s see how long it takes for a known criminal, either in prison or soon to go to prison for a long, long time, takes to get an interim suspension “to protect the public.”

Just how long does that take for a nursing home “golden boy?”

Full Licensed Name:	Jerome Edward Larkin
Full Former name(s):	None
Date of Admission as Lawyer by Illinois Supreme Court:	November 3, 1978
Registered Business Address:	Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission One Prudential Plaza 130 East Randolph Drive, Suite 1500 Chicago, IL 60601-6209
Registered Business Phone:	(312) 565-2600
Illinois Registration Status:	Active and authorized to practice law  – Last Registered Year: 2016
Malpractice Insurance: (Current as of date of registration; consult attorney for further information)	In annual registration, attorney reported that he/she does not have malpractice coverage. (Some attorneys, such as judges, government lawyers, and in-house corporate lawyers, may not carry coverage due to the nature of their practice setting.)

Public Record of Discipline and Pending Proceedings:

None

Dear Editor, (for Father’s Day) -~
A month ago I was stranded in Bellefontaine. My vehicle broke down and my cell
phone had no service. I bought a pay by the minute cell phone at Dollar General on
Sandusky Rd. Clerks Diana and Erica were so accommodating to help me get the
phone activated as I had no way to do that. They spent over THREE (3) hours to
help me activate four phones while waiting on customers simultaneously. It took so
long because we come to learn this particular brand’s sims cards were outdated.
This prompted my thoughts to question how my “disabled” Dad was living 700 ft
from Dollar General in his own home being isolated, manipulated, exploited,
abused, living in filth, hording, and cat feces for 6 years. The entire Bellefontaine
and Logan County gov’t agencies knew this yet they refused to accommodate Dad
to aid him with his Major Life Activities or carry out the services, programs and
activities he signed up for while of sound mind to accommodate him in later years
for his disabilities after my Mother’s suspicious death reported in the Examiner on
Nov. 27, 2006. Mom was Dad’s caretaker. Her death is still an open and ongoing
case today.
I was “refused” association with Dad and retaliated against for reporting the
discrimination on Dad. Hence this aided all the abusers to continue their nasty
discrimination for 6 years. This heinous inhumane abuse was finally acknowledged
and published in the Examiner Sept. 11,2012. In the end the abuser walked free
because Judge O’Connor threw out the charge of “failing to provide”. For the next
3 years the courts continued discriminating against Dad and me, refusing to
accommodate him for his disabilities and denying me association. Instead they
abducted him to the Campbell Place and appointed him to attorney Steve Fansler’s
supervision even though he had knowledge of Dad’s abuse, disabilities and refused
to accommodate Dad. Thereafter Dad tried to kill himself to go home so they
loaded him on psychotropic drugs for mental illnesses he did not have. Dad was
never treated for the dementia he did have. He was held imprisoned in a place he
did not want or have to be.
The outcome confirms the ADA is arbitrarily adhered to in Logan County. Law
enforcement, APS, Medical Profession, Prosecutors, DD Board and most of all the
Court agents knew full well Dad was disabled and they all refused us
accommodations that ended in a cocktail of drugs that killed my Dad and violated
his legal advanced directives. Assets were stripped out to the tune of$750,000.
Who is going after these heathens and turn on their own?
I fail to see how two Dollar General clerks can be so accommodating while people
who are supposed to serve us, making mega bucks from our tax dollars, are
accommodating their own needs while abusers murder and steal from our elderly. I
guarantee if my Dad had been accommodated for his disabilities he would not be
dead and plundered. Those who commit these monstrous acts should be behind
bars.
I hope the people of Logan County drop in at Dollar General and sincerely thank
Diana and Erica for the extended help they gave me when I was stranded and
alone. It will be my life’s mission to redistribute the salaries from those who are
supposed to serve us but fail their duty and give it to the simple humble people
who do the most from loving acts of kindness. We should all strive to exemplify
God’s love like Diana & Erica and not discriminate.
Happy Father’s Day Dad, Your Loving Daughter, vf2n~ :£ rvvJlw
Rosanna L. Miller

Please sign the petition at https://www.change.org/p/california-state-house-recall-judge-aaron-persky

There  are now over a million signatures on this petition which involved a slap on the wrist prison sentence for a well to do Stanford athlete and his family, when the state was asking for 6 to 8.

He should have received 8 to 10.  Why the lax request from the state’s attorneys offices? And the horrific miscarriage of justice by this judge?

Was it because Stanford athletes have multi million dollar programs and this lady was just a poor working class kulak?

Was it because there is a tacit agreement to give Standford rapists a slap on the wrist?

98% of rapes are not even reported, primarily due to conduct like this from the courts, and many women don’t get the press this woman got.

The entire case demands a full investigation.  I want to see all of the other rape penalites handed down by this judge in the last 8 years, don’t you?

Please sign the petition.

The US and Cal. state governments are protecting perps and not vulnerable women.

Equally, the US and state governments do not protect the elders and disableds that are at risk of the mantra “target, isolate, medicate, drain the estate, narcotize and eliminate, cremate”.  Nor are they stopping Title 4 and they stop co parenting from spreading, they do not test parents for psychpathy and supervise those parents, they allow the states to medically kidnap and steal kids from their parents with false DCFS/CPS reports from unqualified anti-social workers.

Please help reform the system and clean it up.

JoAnne

American Judicial System for Sale: Bribes and Corruption now the Norm

Health Impact News Editor Comments

Since Health Impact News started reporting on medical kidnappings taking place in the United States, we have briefly touched upon the topic of corrupt judges and the courts that allow this to happen. See:

Medical Kidnapping Business: Judges Skirting the Law for Federal Funds

Retired Arizona Judge Reveals Corruption in Legal System

Who is Trying to Silence Filmmaker and Judicial Watchdog Bill Windsor, Currently Held in County Jail?

I recently was privileged to have a conversation with one of the top American legal minds of our day and age, Dr. Richard I. Fine, who lost his career and was unjustly put in prison for 18 months as a political prisoner. He was never even charged with a crime.

His story is not widely known, and it gives the public an insider perspective to the depth of the corruption in the American judiciary.

Health Impact News investigative reporter John P. Thomas recently interviewed Dr. Fine, and his report is below. Dr. Fine’s message is a message every American needs to know.

Dr. Richard Fine’s Experience with Corrupt Judges in California

by John P. Thomas
Health Impact News

There have been many articles published on the websites of Health Impact News and Medical Kidnap which mention judicial corruption. In this article, we take an in-depth look at one man’s attempt to expose judicial corruption, and the destruction of his legal career that followed. It destroys the myth that judges are always people of integrity who seek a fair outcome for those who appear in their courtrooms.

To be fair, there are still some genuinely honest people who work in the courts. However, the presence of good people is being overshadowed by those who routinely misuse the authority that has been given to them for personal gain. Corrupt judges do not identify conflicts of interest and do not step aside from cases where their personal connections might cause them to give an unfair judgement. Corrupt judges provide advantages to those who have given them money and power, while they disregard the rights of those who seek justice for acts of wrongdoing perpetrated against them.

One Honest Attorney’s Ten Year Battle with Corruption

A ten year battle with judicial corruption cost Dr. Richard I. Fine his freedom and his license to practice law. He was not punished because he did wrong, but he was attacked because he did the right thing.

The right thing was to expose the paying of illegal money to Los Angeles County judges and other California Superior Court judges after he learned about the practice in 1999. The right thing was to use his extensive legal training and experience to confront the pattern of corruption in the California judiciary and to do battle with the system that was corrupting judicial integrity.

California Superior Court judges in Los Angeles County began to receive large amounts of money from the county every year starting in 1985. In recent years, the annual payment made to each judge was in excess of $57,000. These annual payments were in addition to the regular salary paid to the judges by the state of California. Los Angeles County officials claimed that the purpose for the payments was to attract and retain high quality people to work as judges. However, another purpose – an illegal purpose – has been revealed. [1]

Dr. Fine showed that these payments were illegal, and fostered judicial corruption among Los Angeles County judges. The payments did not attract and retain judges, rather, they became a source of corruption. A very different word can now be used to describe the intent of these payments. [2]

Judges and Court Decisions Affected by Bribe Money

As will be explained by Dr. Fine, these payments can be called bribe money, because the decisions made by these judges followed a very predictable pattern, which benefited Los Angeles County. In cases involving the county of Los Angeles, the county almost always won the cases brought before these judges. This pattern of decision making is evidence that the payments to judges were functioning as bribes.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Fine at the end of 2015. He was the first attorney to challenge the system of judicial corruption in California and the first to expose it to public view. He told me how the judges conspired to attack him and bring him down once he started to reveal the corruption.

Los Angeles judges denied him the payment of fees for work he had done. They imprisoned him for 18 months. They took his law license. Even after it was proven that corruption did in fact exist, and he did nothing wrong by exposing it, the California Supreme Court still refused to restore his license.

But before I get into more details about the betrayal of trust that Dr. Fine experienced, I want to introduce you to this remarkable man.

Dr. Richard Fine is a Man of Persistence and Courage

I spoke with Dr. Richard I. Fine, Ph.D.; JD, on December 29, 2015. The information in this article came from this conversation and from his presentations and interviews that have been archived on the internet.

Dr. Fine is a recognized leader in exposing governmental and judicial corruption. He is working hard to create a more just global society by providing expertise on issues relating to abuses of power, governance, international and comparative law, human rights and litigation oversight. Professionally, he is now working as a Strategic Consultant, and a Certified Mediator. He is the Chairman and Founder of the Campaign for Judicial Integrity, a grassroots movement dedicated to ending judicial corruption, reforming the judicial system and restoring our constitutional rights to due process and a fair trial. He also is the Co-Chairperson of the Judicial Reform Committee of DivorceCorp.

The educational background of Dr. Richard I. Fine is extensive. He earned a Ph.D. in Law with a specialty in International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1967). He earned a Doctor of Law (JD) degree from the University of Chicago Law School (1964). After completing his Ph.D. he obtained a Certificate of Public International Law and a Certificate of Private International Law from the Hague Academy of International Law, a Certificate of Comparative Law from the International University of Comparative Science in Luxembourg, and obtained a Higher Diploma of Comparative Law from the International Faculty for the Teaching of Comparative Law, Strasbourg, France.

Dr. Fine pursued a wide range of studies in college. His major was psychology. He had a heavy emphasis in pre-med courses and actually took more courses in economics than in his major. He also accumulated credits toward a master’s degree in labor.

The combination of his education and professional training gave him an unusually broad view of how the legal system, the political system, and the personal ambition and self-interest of leaders come together to shape the systems that manage life in our society.

Dr. Fine described himself. He stated:

I am a broad thinker. Lawyers aren’t that. Many weren’t that even when I was practicing law, because so many lawyers began developing into the specialties. Lawyers look to solve the problem within the confines of their expertise and that doesn’t necessarily solve the problem. [3]

Dr. Fine’s Outstanding Legal Career

Dr. Fine was a member of the state bar association in at least one state from 1964 through 2011. Early in his career, he worked in the U.S. Department of Justice, Anti-Trust Division. He was the founder and chief of the first municipal anti-trust division in the United States for the Los Angeles City attorney’s office. In 1974 he founded the law offices of Richard I. Fine and associates.

A few highlights of his career include: the indicting and prosecuting of General Motors and Ford for price fixing, the Investigation of the Pulp Paper and Newsprint International Cartel for international price fixing, and the representation of the Department of Justice in its first appearance before the Tariff Commission, which later became the International Trade Commission. He litigated the case of IAM versus OPEC, which was the case against OPEC nations for manipulating U.S. gas prices. He changed the way United Way functions by requiring it to allow donors to designate the charities where their donations would go. He forced local governments in California to return a billion dollars of illegally used funds to California taxpayers. He closed down the California State Government and required it to have authorization before paying anyone including the Governor, state legislators, and judges. The action he took against the State of California in 1998 regarding its spending practices ended 26 years of political budget crises.

Dr. Fine received various certificates of special recognition such as the California State Assembly Certificate of recognition, and was honored as the lawyer of the decade and champion of court reform.

From the abbreviated list of accomplishments and honors mentioned above, it is clear that Dr. Fine was, and continues to be, an outstanding advocate for justice in America.

His Ordeal Began when He Sued Los Angeles County for Wrongdoing

In 1999 Dr. Fine sued the county of Los Angeles three times. The first suit challenged the county’s diversion of 250 million dollars of transportation monies to solve a problem in its hospital system. The second case involved the diversion of 45 million dollars of fees paid to the county. The fees were designated for environmental purposes, but were being diverted to the county’s general fund. The third case involved 14 million dollars of child support payments that were being illegally held by the district attorney and which were not being paid to women and children.

Dr. Fine won these cases, and the county suddenly had a 314 million dollar budget hole to fill, because they couldn’t use these funds as they had planned.

According to Dr. Fine,

The county was now on the hook for 314 million dollars. They wanted to do something, and what was that something going to be? That something was, to use the judges they were paying to go against me. [4]

Responding to Judicial Corruption Lands Dr. Fine in Jail Without Even a Warrant

Supreme Court Justice Also Questions the Legality of Payments to Judges

Dr. Fine’s life unexpectedly began to change on September 15, 2000, when he read a quotation in the Metropolitan News from Ronald M. George, the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. Justice George had spoken to judges attending the annual Meeting of the California Judges Association. Dr. Fine explained that Justice George told the judges that he thought the payments to judges were wrong and maybe unconstitutional. It was through this newspaper article that Dr. Fine found out about the existence of payments made to judges by the counties, and began to consider the implications.

Dr. Fine’s law license has not been restored and I guess we will know when judicial reform has made progress, when myself, Dr. Fine, Ken Ditkowsky, Lanre Amu, Andy Ostrowski and the other lawyers on my “wrongfully disciplined lawyers” list have had their licenses reinstated. We have all taken our oaths as lawyers seriously and fought against corruption, now where are the rest?

Now this just isn’t on person writing to the New York Times, this is their editorial Board

Read on:

Prosecutors are the most powerful players in the American criminal justice system. Their decisions — like whom to charge with a crime, and what sentence to seek — have profound consequences.

So why is it so hard to keep them from breaking the law or violating the Constitution?

The short answer is that they are almost never held accountable for misconduct, even when it results in wrongful convictions. It is time for a new approach to ending this behavior: federal oversight of prosecutors’ offices that repeatedly ignore defendants’ legal and constitutional rights. There is a successful model for this in the Justice Department’s monitoring of police departments with histories of misconduct.

Among the most serious prosecutorial violations is the withholding of evidence that could help a defendant prove his or her innocence or get a reduced sentence — a practice so widespread that one federal judge called it an “epidemic.” Under the 1963 landmark Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland, prosecutors are required to turn over any exculpatory evidence to a defendant that could materially affect a verdict or sentence. Yet in many district attorneys’ offices, the Brady rule is considered nothing more than a suggestion, with prosecutors routinely holding back such evidence to win their cases.

Nowhere is this situation worse than in Louisiana, where prosecutors seem to believe they are unconstrained by the Constitution.

This month, the Supreme Court will consider the latest challenge to prosecutorial misconduct in Louisiana in the case of David Brown, who was one of five men charged in the 1999 murder of a prison guard. Mr. Brown said he did not commit the murder, but he was convicted and sentenced to death anyway. Only later did his lawyers discover that prosecutors had withheld the transcript of an interview with another prisoner directly implicating two other men — and only those men — in the murder.

This is about as blatant a Brady violation as can be found, and the judge who presided over Mr. Brown’s trial agreed, throwing out his death penalty and ordering a new sentencing. But the Louisiana Supreme Court reversed that decision, ruling that the new evidence would not have made a difference in the jury’s sentence.

David Brown’s case is a good example of how every part of the justice system bears some responsibility for not fighting prosecutorial misconduct. State courts often fail to hold prosecutors accountable, even when their wrongdoing is clear. Professional ethics boards rarely discipline them. And individual prosecutors are protected from civil lawsuits, while criminal punishment is virtually unheard of. Money damages levied against a prosecutor’s office could deter some misconduct, but the Supreme Court has made it extremely difficult for wrongfully convicted citizens to win such claims.

This maddening situation has long resisted a solution. What would make good sense is to have the federal government step in to monitor some of the worst actors, increasing the chance of catching misconduct before it ruins peoples’ lives. The Justice Department is already authorized to do this by a 1994 federal law prohibiting any “pattern or practice of conduct by law enforcement officers” that deprives a person of legal or constitutional rights.

The department has used this power to monitor police departments in Los Angeles, New Orleans, Detroit and Seattle, among other municipalities with a history of brutality, wrongful arrests, shootings of unarmed civilians and other illegal or unconstitutional practices. For the most part, the results have been positive. Since prosecutors are also “law enforcement officers,” there is no reason they and their offices should be immune from federal oversight.

Of course, many district attorneys’ offices will balk at being put under a federal microscope. But nothing else has worked to prevent misconduct by prosecutors, and the Justice Department is uniquely equipped to ferret out the worst actors and expose their repeated disregard for the law and the Constitution.

(225 ILCS 415/23) (from Ch. 111, par. 6223)
    (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2024)
    Sec. 23. Grounds for disciplinary action.
    (a) The Department may refuse to issue or renew, or may revoke, suspend, place on probation, reprimand or take other disciplinary or non-disciplinary action as the Department may deem appropriate, including imposing fines not to exceed $10,000 for each violation and the assessment of costs as provided for in Section 23.3 of this Act, with regard to any license for any one or combination of the following:

http://www.ilcra.org/sitepage.asp?page=Code-of-Ethics

CODE OF ETHICS

Right now we are raising funds for airfare or an airline ticket so I can go to Washington and talk to the Senate Subcommittee on Aging on Wed, June 15, 2016 at 2pm to help corruption victims who have experienced a loss of a loved one in Probate or Custody through corruption (lack of jurisdiction, changed transcripts, lying in court, false evidence, lying shrinks and courtroom vendors. I want to ask this Subcommittee to appoint a special investigator and return the loved ones to their families with a POA and an Elder Assistant volunteer who meets with the elder once per week and helps them pay bills and make decisions. Also, all monies taken from fraudulent proceedings, the attorneys, nursing homes and court vendors will be returned to the loved one and their family members.

Most of you are familiar with the work we do and how we help everyone and do not turn anyone away.

Currently, we are working on my taking cases in courtroom corruption in Probate to the Senate Subcommitte on the judiciary and demanding they appoint a special investigator and investigating all the corrupt cases were seniors and the disableds are at high risk of the procedure of “target, isolate, medicate, drain the estate, eliminate and cremate” as well as custody corruption where parents are denied co parenting due to corruption in the court room (no service of pleadings, no due process, evaluation reports ignored, lying shrinks, etc.) We will be taking cases to the Senate Subcommittee on the judiciary and demanding a special investigator.

All our work is important. We return loved ones and their monies to their families.

No donation is too small. Everyone who request will be put on my prayer list if you do not have the funds to donate, just let me know.

You can text, email or facebook a check to my name or “Justice4 Every1, NFP” or you can donate by paypal to joanne@denisonlaw.com or text a check to 773 255 7608.

We do not have any government funding as yet and we rely on donations. We are a 501(c)(4) social justice Not for Profit and donations are not tax deductible so we can support and endorse new laws that stop corruption in its tracks (requiring waiver of rights to be in writing or recorded by GAL’s, etc.)

If I can’t raise the funds as yet, I will ask to appear by Skype and I’m faxing the subcommittee today.

thank you for reading this

joanne

John Bystrom has been very active in uncovering fraud and corruption in Rockford–the type of news mega media just won’t print, but everyone in town knows it is going on and on and on. The state’s attorneys won’t touch it, the FBI in Rockford won’t touch it, but John Bystrom has been investigating and publishing and now has his own blog–a blog for sure you won’t want to miss.

go sign up for his new blog at:  https://rockfordfraud.wordpress.com/

Antipsychotic drugs are riskier for older dementia patients than previously thought, study finds

U.S. Government Accountability Office

Physicians often prescribe antipsychotic drugs to older people with dementia to control non-memory related behavioral symptoms, including agitation, aggressiveness, delusions and hallucinations.

But officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have never approved antipsychotic medications — such as haloperidol (Haldol), risperidone (Risperdal),olanzapine (Zyprexa) and quetiapine (Seroquel) — for that purpose. Indeed, these medicines come with a “black box” FDA warning that their use to control behavioral disturbances in people with dementia is associated with an increased risk of premature death.

Many physicians have continued to prescribe the drugs to their patients with dementia anyway, believing that the benefits — primarily protecting patients from harming themselves or others — outweigh the risks.

A study published Wednesday in the journalJAMA Psychiatry, however, presents troubling new evidence that those risks are significantly higher than previously reported.

A VA database

For the study, researchers from the University of Michigan, the University of Southern California and the Veterans Administration analyzed medical data of almost 91,000 U.S. veterans (mostly men) aged 65 and older with diagnosed dementia. Approximately half the patients had been treated for behavioral problems with an antipsychotic, anticonvulsant (valproic acid) or antidepressant medication; the other half didn’t receive any of these drugs.

After crunching the data, the researchers found that veterans who were given antipsychotic medications had a risk of dying significantly higher than those not taking the medications. For example, 20.7 percent of the patients taking haloperidol died within six months — 3.8 percent more than the non-users. Among the patients taking quetiapine, 11.8 percent died within six months — 2.0 percent more than the non-users. The increased risk of death for the olanzapine and risperidone patients fell somewhere between.

These risks are two to four times higher than previously cited in the medical literature, the study’s authors point out.

The new analysis also revealed that the higher the dose of an antipsychotic medication, the greater the risk of premature death.

Another troubling finding was that people prescribed haloperidol — the riskiest of the drugs — were more likely to be unmarried, African-American or living in facilities with fewer beds for patients.

As for the two other types of drugs used to treat behavioral problems in people with dementia  — valproic acid and antidepressants — the researchers found that the increased risk of premature death associated with the anticonvulsants was not statistically significant and the increased risk associated with the antidepressants was only slightly higher than for non-users.

Number needed to harm

Another way of assessing the risk from the antipsychotic medications is with an epidemiological measurement tool known as the “number needed to harm” (NNH). In this study, the NNH reflects the number of older adults with dementia who would have to be taking a particular drug for one of them to die within six months.

For the haloperidol users in the study, the NNH was 26. In other words, for every 26 patients with dementia taking haloperidol, one would be expected to die within half a year. Risperidone was only slightly less risky, with an NNH of 27. For olanzapine the NNH was 40, and for quetiapine it was 50.

By comparison, the NNH in this study for antidepressant use was 166. (There’s little evidence, however, that antidepressants are effective for patients with dementia.)

Time to raise the threshold

Earlier this month, federal investigators with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report in which they cited evidence of the widespread overuse of psychiatric drugs in older Americans with dementia.

In 2012, about one-third of older adults with dementia who spent at least 100 days in  long-term nursing home and about 14 percent of those living outside a nursing home were prescribed an antipsychotic medication, the report noted.

“The harms associated with using these drugs in dementia patients are clear, yet clinicians continue to use them,” said Dr. Donovan Maust, the lead author of the JAMA Psychiatry study and a geriatric psychiatrist at the University of Michigan and the VA Center for Clinical Management Research, in a released statement.

“That’s likely because the symptoms are so distressing,” he added.“These results should raise the threshold for prescribing further.”

Maust says the emphasis on treating behavioral problems in older people with dementia should focus on non-drug strategies first. But, of course, those strategies take more time and are not always fully reimbursed by Medicare or private health insurance.

“Non-pharmacologic approaches will only succeed if we as a society agree to pay front-line providers for the time needed to ‘do the right thing,’ ” said one of Mast’s co-authors,Dr. Helen Kales, in the released statement.

Unfortunately, the JAMA Psychiatry study is behind a firewall at the journal’s  website, despite the fact that it was funded in large part by taxpayer money through the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Aging.

You can read the GAO report on the overprescribing of antipsychotic medications at that agency’s website.

And all the other  lawyers involved in running a trial with unlicensed court reporters for SIX DAYS!–Opryszek, Smart, Sang Yul Lee and Ziad Alnaqib–all involved.  The Review Board should also be required to resign for not letting my court reporter set up also. Why was she told not to set up?  It’s a violation of my due process rights.

I am now reviewing all my transcripts for unlicensed court reporters over the past few years, and with the exception of the ARDC, I can’t find a single one!

Amazing.  Only the ARDC uses unlicensed court reporters.

I want everyone to check their transcripts and give me a report on how many they find that are unlicensed.

joanne

Mr. Larkin,

The affidavit that accompanies the motion that discusses the use of unlicensed professionals by the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission creates such an appearance of impropriety that the person who wrote the affidavit as well as all who were consulted in reference thereto surrender their law licenses as severe dangers to the public.

You are aware that professional licensing is the chosen method by which the State protects consumers. Use of unlicensed people by the Attorney Disciplinary Commission (IARDC) is beyond contempt. However, it is consistent with everything that went on in my case, JoAnne Denison’s case, Lanre Amu’s case ***** and the racial insult heaped upon an Icon of the Civil Rights movement (Diane Nash). Just focusing on the JoAnne Denison case you at this point in time know that the charges made against Ms. Denison (and myself) were totally false and even had they been true they were protected by the Constitution of the United States and the Illinois Constitution. You however told the Supreme Court that the disclosures of judicial corruption was akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater. You further ignored the fact that on page 91 of Judge Connor’s deposition she admitted to being ‘fixed’/’wired’ Of course you before you filed the charges was aware that due process – i.e. notice and hearing were denied Mary Sykes and that one of your panels use clairvoyance instead of evidence to reach its decision. It is also no secret to you that Rulings of the Supreme Court of Illinois were misrepresented and falsely characterized. I trust you have now read the Sawyer and the Alvarez cases.

Naturally you have not apologized or retracted the inappropriate pleadings and documents that you filed. We did not expect the same as we were detailing for the FBI, IRS, IDPR and DOJ the fact that your action was intentional. (Had it been an error the same type of misconduct would not have continued unabated until culminated in the attempted intimidation of Attorney Denison and the outlandish fraud of presenting an ex-parte petition for costs that included illegal charges.

It is time, Mr. Larkin, for you to resign and surrender your law license. The damage you are doing to the reputation of the legal profession is horrendous. Few legal practitioners have heaped so much disrepute on the 2nd oldest profession as you. Dishonesty has become the expected norm based upon your total disregard for the oath you took to become the administrator of the IARDC and to become an attorney. How can you explain claiming that Lanre Amu was not telling the truth when independently Crains Chicago Business made the very same averments concerning Judge Egan. How can explain your inaction in the Alice Gore case? Justice Jackson sentenced Nazis to death for what was done to Mrs. Gore yet you would not even investigate. How do you explain prosecutions of Ms. Dension and myself for demanding an HONEST INVESTIGATION?

Mr. Amu, Ms Dension, and yours truly are not naive, nor did we just fall off the turnip truck. We all knew from day one that a fair hearing before the IARDC was impossible and that the ‘fix’ was in. It is/was sad, but a fact of life. Today, you have crossed the line. There is no going back. By your acting as defined in 18 UsCA 371 you are a co-conspirator. By your thwarting 18 USCA 4 (and a death occurred) you have violated 18 USCA 241 and 242. These violations are felonies. As you used the mails to communicate *******.

Do the right thing Mr. Larkin! You and I both went to the same law school – do not disgrace it and yourself further by not owning up to the obstruction of justice and other perfidy that you have committed.

To the IARDC, even though the request of an HONEST INVESTIGATION is offensive to the management of the IARDC, Attorney Cynthia Farenga ***** DEMAND IS MADE PURSUANT TO aba RULE 8.3 FOR AN HONEST INVESTIGATION OF THE CRIMINAL CONDUCT OF JEROME LARKIN AND EVERY ATTORNEY DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THE MARY SYKES CASE, THE ALICE GORE CASE, CAROLYN WYMAN CASE and other elder cleansing cases. As Mr. Larkin and others associated with the IARDC are intimidatingly involved in the alleged judicial corruption, I call for an independent law enforcement organization be requested to conduct the investigation.

Ken Ditkowsky
http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com

Subject: Re: breach of the pubic trust is a taxable event

The problem that is to be faced is no one gives a damn about the murders! These murders echoed the holocaust and in the Alice Gore case even demonstrated the stealing of the gold from the teeth of the victims.

Every day, most of us write e-mails up the gazoo to law enforcement, civil rights organizations, and anyone who will accept them – How many guardians do you see even being investigated for their felonies? Routinely I copy the FBI, the Justice Department, and local law enforcement authorities on my e-mails – I leave to you to ascertain what if any result that has had. (It has had some – that I was able to confirm, however, public officials are afraid.)

Let’s take the case of the Judge who sentenced that Stanford swimmer to six months in jail for a rape. We all are adults – we know what happened. The Judge got a telephone call from on to the political people he owes a favor. The caller told him the terms and conditions of the collection effort and when it came time to sentence the miscreant the Judge did as he was told. Some deviant (like you or I) found out about the incident and blew the whistle. As some event was the news of the day was unfavorable to on of the Presidential candidates and a distraction was needed the judge was the diversion. (Hillary’s stop staff members were taking the 5th amendment). Bingo **** you know the rest.

Like DONALD TRUMP’S admission that he bribed William and Hillary Clinton the murder of hundreds (if not thousands ) of senior citizens in corrupt guardianship situations is not going to get much media attention. Trump may feel that an honest political operator is one who when bribed stays bribed, but that is not one of his credos that either side of the isle wants the great unwashed to dwell upon. He bribed the Clintons! How would it look for the New York Times to endorse a political figure who was bribed by her opponent? How would it look for the ****** (I could not find a newspaper backing Trump) to endorse a political figure who bribed another political figure?

I read this morning that we are going to forget about Truth, Justice, and the American way – we are instead going to worry about the definition if the word: “is!” Donald Trump is expected to announce a new definition of the word: “honest”. An Honest politician is one who when bribed stays bribed!

Now Mr. Bernstein – why have I suggested that we push the fact that the miscreants are not paying the taxes due on the bootty .

The public (electorate) is interested in putting food on the table and purchasing a new car. A few elderly people dying does not mean anything to them; however, government increasing taxes is a prime concern. You, me and other members of the great unwashed have made it very clear – we do not to pay more taxes! How do you legally avoid paying taxes? Have no more taxes assessed is one answer, but we also want all kind of services from government and we have to pay the bill. Answer number 2 – tax someone else. The most attractive people to tax are the political elite. They live high on the hog and get paid more money that we are for doing much much less. They also get paid after they retire. They have generous pensions.

Some of the political elite are not nice people. The most not nice of the political elite are the corrupt judges, corrupt lawyers, corrupt guardians, and the 18 USCA 371 group. Taxing them is attractive! Legislature cannot single out Jerome Larkin for addition taxation – such would be unconstitutional; however, the taxman can single out Larkin for audit and in particular to determine if he reported on his 1040 the remuneration that he received for his cover-up of the Sykes case, Gore case *****. By his cover-up he became an 18 USCA 371 co conspirator and therefore he has joint and several liability for the taxes due.

Yes, Mr. Bernstein and fellow members of the Great Unwashed we are not directly punishing Mr. Larkin for the crime that he committed against Alice Gore and Mary Sykes. BUT this is probably the only remedy the general public will have. Do you have any confidence that someone close to Mr. Larkin will not call the judge who is assigned to Mr. Larkin’s criminal hearing and cash in a favor! Judge Connors who admitted on page 91 of her evidence deposition that she was ‘touched’ and thus ignored the lack jurisdiction, her duties as judge and due process. Her punishment was being elevated to the Appellate Court.

Look at the Clinton e-mail scandal! People with a heck of lot more clout than you and me want to see Hillary receive the very same level of justice that General P received and just as currently. Do you have any doubt that behind the scenes the wheels are turning so that the ‘fix’ can be accomplished! On the other side of the coin, Donald Trump admitted that he bribed the Clintons. Do you expect Trump or Clinton to be even investigated for the alleged bribes?

Indeed – I would settle for civil tax collection as it many be all that we get. It also will take the profit out elder cleansing and judicial corruption.

Ken Ditkowsky
http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com
from Ken Ditkowsky:

See below pleadings:

Motion for Leave to Supplement Pleadings

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6FbJzwtHocwU01BT2cyRnVaSDg

Motion to Supplement Pleadings

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6FbJzwtHocwclludTBhTlVjU28

Exhibits:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6FbJzwtHocweGZCXzI2eE9vTmM

Here is my Motion to Vacate:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6FbJzwtHocwckJkZ3A4MXJoZHc

Now here is the ARDC response:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6FbJzwtHocwWFc4YmVVcXJsYzQ

This is absolutely unbelievable.  The ARDC offers no explanation or response to why they are using unlicensed court reporters from unlicensed agencies that list corporate names on their transcripts that are either inactive, expired or non existent corporations!

They have painted themselves into a corner.  Either a license is important and a court reporter or attorney must have it, or the license is not important and a court reporter or attorney does not have to have it but they can still act as one, file affidavits as one, and even appear in court as one and pretend to be one! What is good for the goose, is good for the gander.

The ARDC has painted itself in a corner.  It has offered no apology and no remorse for what it does.

This goes to show everyone that corruption is just a house of cards.  No good will ever come from covering up crimes and felonies.  It all falls apart one day.

Today is the day for the ARDC.  It looks like they need 2 more weeks for “damage control”.

Sharon Opryszek and Melissa Smart and Leah Guiterrez Black were all on my case and presumably all knew or should have know about using unlicensed court reporters.  The transcripts are no good.  Period. And they are full of errors and I told the Tribunal that at trial, asked for the audio copies and Sang Yul Lee just responded, “file an errata sheet.”

Was he kidding?  Was he part of it too? The FBI for sure should investigate the situation and remove the liars and courtroom thugs that do this.

Those audio tape copies do not belong to SYL or the court reporters or to anyone personally. Those tapes and transcripts belong to the people of the State of Illinois who have a right to them (they might have to pay for them).

The ARDC made numerous copies of my blog and distributed them everywhere, violating tons of copyrights.  They employed “Nextpoint” which is nothing other than a copyright infringement firm, to copy my blog.  That was ridiculous.

Now, when I ask for the audio of the transcripts, the ARDC refuses me, even when it is clear the transcripts are corrupted and inaccurate in many places.

Obviously they hire unlicensed court reporters to control the transcripts.  That way they can go to the court reporter and demand she change transcripts or they will report her to the authorities for spoliation of evidence, filing false and fraudulent evidence, perjury, obstruction of justice, etc.  And she will happily comply.

I don’t know why the ARDC needs 2 weeks to think about the “effect of an unlicensed court reporter.”  It seems pretty obvious to me and to my readers.  They are false and fraudulent and void ab initio.

As many of you have stated to me over and over, the ARDC has wasted a ton of publicly owned money on my case and Ken’s case and Lanre Amu’s case.  This is not money they own personally.  It was taken by attorneys in yearly registration fees to protect you, the public, from unscrupulous attorneys. That is the only reason the ARDC exists.  However, they have turned this all around.  They refuse to file Ethics Reports and they openlly defy the Ethics Reporting law of 2009, they go after whistle blowing attorneys and ruin their lives when the news media picks up on the story and does additional exposes of the fraud and corruption, as well the media should.

Whistleblowing attorneys should be protected, period.

The ARDC should only exist to protect the public from unscrupulous lawyers.

What I find time after time, is that the ARDC fails to investigate valid consumer complaints on a regular basis, while going after whistleblowers and then protecting wise guy attorneys for years, most notably Seth Gillman, who still shows no discipline on his record, yet he was convicted of bilking the US Government of over $100 million in Medicare and Medicaid and State of Illinois Health Care Fraud.  He promised restitution of $10 million, but he has way more taxes to pay to the IRS. This has gone on for 2 years now with no action in sight by the ARDC.  In the meantime, apparently he ran off with hundreds of thousands of dollars in employee tax trust funds and health care trust funds so the employees now have to pay those amounts and unbeknownst to them, they had no health care for 6 months or longer. The ARDC let this happen, basically saying, “so what?” and thumbing their noses at both Gillman’s employees and the public.

You just couldnt’ make this stuff up in a million years, with a million monkeys typing a million pages

Joanne

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By  KRISTEN SCHORSCH

and  ANDREW L. WANG

For at least 15 years,  Cook County Circuit Court Judge Lynn Egan has sat on the boards governing a south suburban hospital while it regularly has hired her brother’s law firm.
Chicago-based  Pretzel & Stouffer has represented  Palos Community Hospital in almost half of the 170 cases involving the hospital filed over that period in the law division of the circuit court, according to a Crain’s review of court record s. From 2011 to 2013, Matthew Egan, a partner in the firm, represented Palos in at least 15 cases before his sister’s judicial colleagues, most of them involving medical malpractice or personal injury.
The nonprofit hospital did not disclose the financial relationship with Mr. Egan in forms filed with the IRS between 1999 and 2011, the latest year for which records are publicly available. It did disclose a separate sibling relationship: payments totaling nearly $56,000 to the sister of its former CEO in 2011.
In a response to questions from Crain’s, the hospital says it plans to review its procedures.
“As it pertains to contracted legal services, we believe all of the required board disclosures have been made,” Palos board Chairman Edward Mulcahy says in a statement. “However, as a precaution, we will again review our internal processes.” Mr. Mulcahy says the administration, not board members, hire vendors.

SHAKEUP

The independent, 362-bed community hospital in Palos Heights is in the midst of a leadership shakeup. After roughly 30 years under CEO Sister Margaret Wright, who  retired in 2013, the board hired Edgardo Tenreiro, chief operating officer at a Baton Rouge, La., hospital system. But  with no public explanation, he departed three weeks ago after less than three months on the job.
Greg Paetow, a board member for three years, says he quit for “personal reasons” on Feb. 12, the same day Mr. Tenreiro left. A second person on the 12-member hospital board also resigned in February, as did Thomas Barcelona, chairman of the board of parent company St. George Corp., which solicits donations for the hospital.

Ms. Egan (at right), who also serves on St. George’s board and is on the Palos hospital board’s executive committee, says she disclosed Mr. Egan’s representation of Palos on an annual conflict statement available to the hospital’s auditors and tax preparers.
“I believe that I have performed my service as a jurist and volunteer PCH board member in a responsible and ethical manner,” she says in a statement. “Any suggestion to the contrary is false.”
Ms. Egan did not respond to a request to provide the document. Disclosure statements she filed with the Illinois Supreme Court from 2011 to 2013 do not mention her brother or his law firm. 
Mr. Egan says in an email that “no attorney in our firm has ever appeared before Judge Egan in any matter on behalf of Palos Community Hospital.” Notions of a potential conflict of interest are “false, indeed reckless,” he adds.
Even if Pretzel & Stouffer were the best firm for the job, experts say the lack of transparency raises questions.
“I would think in this case you would want to bend over backwards to disclose the conflict to make sure no one makes assumptions,” says David Becher, an associate professor of finance at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

quote|David Becher, professor, Drexel University

I would think in this case you would want to bend over backwards to disclose the conflict to make sure no one makes assumptions.

During Ms. Egan’s tenure on the board, Pretzel & Stouffer has been named only once in the hospital’s available tax returns, as one of the five highest-paid vendors in 2002, making about $163,000. Nonprofits generally must disclose employees who are board members’ relatives if they make more than $10,000 a year, says David Lowenthal, a Chicago-based senior manager at accounting firm Plante & Moran PLLC. 
The hospital has disclosed the compensation of board members Thomas Courtney, a lawyer who processes third-party liens for patient bills; Dr. Mark Sinibaldi, the medical director of the psychiatric unit; and Ms. Wright’s sister, who also worked at the hospital.

CODE OF CONDUCT

Having Ms. Egan and fellow  law division Judge Deborah Dooling on the hospital board raises other questions. The Illinois Supreme Court’s  Code of Judicial Conduct allows judges to serve on charitable boards so long as the service doesn’t interfere with their duties. 
The code, however, warns that a judge should not serve if the organization is “regularly engaged in adversary proceedings in any court” and singles out hospitals as a potential trouble spot. 
Ms. Egan says she “carefully considered whether my service on the board was permissible” and, after consulting the Illinois Judicial Ethics Committee, concluded there was no issue. Ms. Dooling did not return messages.
One past chair of the ethics committee says he would caution judges against serving on a hospital board because hospitals are frequently named in malpractice litigation.
“The fact that Dooling and Egan sit in the law division makes it more obvious that they should not be on the board,” says Warren Lupel, special counsel at Chicago firm  Much Shelist PC. “If (cases are) frequent, it’s ‘regularly engaged,’ and certainly for a hospital, it is frequent.”

For complete coverage of Chicago-area health care news, visit  ChicagoHealthCareDaily.com.

 From Ken Ditkowsky

At hearings involving Mr. Amu’s kangaroo processed ARDC hearings Judge Egan and/or her brother were not required to appear and testify to refute the 8.3 complaint that Mr. Amu made – By Clairvoyance Larkin, his kangaroo panels, and the Illinois Supreme Court determined that Mr. Amu was lying and a danger to the public by his exposure of corruption.

Unfortunately, in an effort to ‘cover-up’ corruption in Illinois Larkin and his 18 USCA 371 co-conspirators regularly violate their public trust and use their position to protect corrupt judges and lawyers who prey on the public.     Accusing lawyers who take their responsibility and oath to defend the Constitution and the Rule of Law seriously are defamed, intimidated and if they stand up for the core values of America suspended from the practice of law.    Illinois is only one of the States in which this cover-up of corruption is prevalent.

Jerome Larkin teaching Ethics is an oxymoron and about as disingenuous as can be imagined!      Even confronted with the fact that he has not told the TRUTH under oath, Larkin is not ashamed to continue to draw his unearned salary = paid by public funds = and to pollute the environment with his perfidy.     The public has lost confidence in our leadership – with good reason.      The Courts do not command respect, as respect has to be earned and it is not earned when one judge after another is exposed as dishonest.        The Judge in the Mary Sykes case 09 P 4585 (Cook County) on page 91 of her evidence deposition admitted that the result of hearings if held would be pre-determined to find Mary Sykes in need of a guardian.    We call this “wired!”       The public got an excellent lesson as to what happens when a judge admits that she was “fixed,”wired, “etc.       She was elevated to the Appellate Court of Illinois.     Jerome Larkin who had the burden of proof by clear and convincing evidence had an easy solution to the problem.   Keep the file out of evidence in disciplinary proceedings so that the lack of jurisdiction could not be part of the record – and the lack of hearing could be cemented over.     If the judge under oath made a fatal admission, the remedy was equally simple – expunge the admission!     The ex-part expungement is accomplished by a simple method – the court reporter just alters her notes and transcript.

Indeed, Jerome Larkin, Illinois paragon of ethics, administers the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary commission in his own image, aided and abetted by the Supreme Court of Illinois.    It is no wonder that Illinois is known nationally as one of the most corrupt States in the Union.    It is no wonder that the State is on the verge of Bankruptcy.

What is to be done?      We need HONEST investigations of the criminal activity emanating from our Courts and we need HONEST prosecutions of all the miscreants.    As a first step we need to send a message to Mr. Larkin and all his 18 USCA 371 co-conspirators.     This message should come from the tax man.     Larkin and all his co-conspirators are not engaging in corruption because they have a dislike for America – they are engaging in the avarice for profit.       We know from the Chicago Tribune articles by John Kass of the payoff to the political establishment that occurs as a condition precedent to becoming a judge, and we know the massive amounts of money generated by the dishonest elements of the health care industry.     The dishonest elements of the health care industry are paying out to the dishonest judicial, political and public official’s large sums of money for their greasing the path of the billions of dollars of illegal health care profits.   (Seth Gillman is reputed to have stolen millions – if not billions – in his hospice operation.   The Illinois ARDC for years looked the other way, did no investigation (honest or otherwise) and until JoAnn Denison’s blog (MaryGSykes) called it to the attention of the public, Larkin totally ignored the theft of public funds.    Apparently according to Ethic’s professor Larkin theft by an attorney is acceptable conduct – the 8.4 reporting is akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater.   (I am not making this up – those were the words of Larkin to the Illinois Supreme Court concerning the MaryGSykes blog.

Thus – it is urged that as Larkin is a co-conspirator pursuant to 18 USCA 371 with the miscreants that he gives cover by the misuse of his office, he has joint and several liability for the reporting and the paying of the Federal and State Income taxes incurred.     He therefore should be pursued by the Illinois Department of Revenue and the US Department of the Treasury for the hundreds of millions of dollars of unpaid taxes, interest and penalties that have profited the cottage industry of corruption in Illinois by lawyers, judges, **** under the protection of the IARDC and the Illinois Supreme Court.

Please allow me to make one more point.    Public service is a public trust.      No one forced Larkin and his ilk to take public jobs and public salaries.     They actively sought these positions and affirmatively sworn to serve the Law and the Constitution honestly and faithfully.     By Larkin’s racism (Amu) and his venality he has disgraced the legal profession irrevocably.    At the very least he should pay the taxes due, plus interest and penalties.

You all did great in coming to my need in times of trouble.  My services are back on  but I still need another $50 by Wednesday.

So if anyone can manage that, it would be wonderful

You can text me a check to 773-255-7608 or email me one to joanne@denisonlaw.com

We are getting there and I am in the process of applying for a grant to help elder abuse victims, which is what I already do.  The mantra of “target, guardianize, isolaate, medicate, drain the estate, narcotize to death and cremate” has got to end.  Too many elders have been murdered (Baker, Sykes, Drabik, Tyler) and too many are still at risk (Frake, Stone, Belanger, etc.) and we have to end this now.

I appreciate everyone for all your help, I really do.

I send you all peace and love and many, many blessings.

JoAnne

He just emailed all of us and our prayers have been answered.  He is free and at home resting.

I think we’re all taking bets on how many days it is before he sues for his completely false arrest and imprisonment in Indiana Federal District Court, Northern Division.

Summary:  approx. 17 years ago, Tim Lahrman was arrested for a joint stub found in his boss’ car and a loose license plate holder.  Not the crime of the century.  He promptly filed numerous motions objecting to his arrest and any trial, because he has been adjudicated a disabled adult.

The US Supreme Court law is clear on this issue.  Mentally ill people cannot be tried until it is shown they have the capacity to participate in a trial and assist in their own defense. If they cannot do this, they must be released to the public or a mental institution, those are the court’s only choices.

So what did this brilliant Indiana judge do?  Hold a trial in abstentia, and of course no one notified Tim. The jury convicted him of each count and the court sentenced him to  1 year, served consecutively on each charge.  No one seemed to care–none of the attorneys in the courtroom or the judge that Tim had filed numerous notices (published elsewhere on this blog) that he had been declared disabled and could not be subject to criminal proceedings.

Next, arrest warrants are only good for a year, and they expire after that, unless motioned up before the court again.  With no activity on his case, and after 17 years, suddenly an arrest warrant rises from the ashes like a Phoenix bird.  Interesting. This just happened to coincide with a appeal of various issues he filed with the 7th circuit.  Now Tim only advocates for the rights of the little guy, so this means someone really, really did not want him to win this appeal.

We will keep you updated on his case. But for now, thanks for all the prayers and assistance.

We need to protect and preserve our tireless advocates for human and civil rights. Tim is nothing but a saint on earth for doing all of this for so many people.

JoAnne

Summary:  Lanre Amu is suspended 4 years when he files a complaint about several judges to the Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board that (99.9%) of the time never disciplines a judge, no matter how badly they act or how many rules they flagrantly violate.  He complains that Judge Egan has a brother and this brother has a law firm and this law firm and/or her brother appear before Judge Egan on a regular basis and she always rules for her brother.  Of course, she rules for her brother, because in the words of Mayor Daley, “if you can’t take care of your own family, then who will?”

Accordingly, instead of the Illinois Supreme Court protecting Lanre Amu, Ken Ditkowsky and myself as whistle blowers, they go right after us and continue to cover up scores of valid citizen complaints, particularly in probate where the money flows left and right and up and down, and there are secret lists and secret meetings of which attorneys and which Chicago law firms will be on the receiving end–all the while, grandma and grandpa and the disableds with money are subject to “target, isolate, medicate with chemical restraints, drain the estate, narcotize and eliminate, and then cremate.”  And Larkin/Grogin and his crew of letter tossing bureaucrats do not even acknowledge the problem exists. Meanwhile, Mary G Sykes, after numerous valid citizen complaints and 8 days of trial going after Ditkowsky/Denison to cover up the crimes committed against her, is narcotized to death on May 23, 2015 and she is whisked off to be entombed without any obituary, funeral or public announcement other than this blog.

Ken wants to know who is paying the taxes on the $3,000,000 that is missing from the Sykes estate, why no discovery was ever served on Carolyn Toerpe, even though she illegally drilled out a safe deposit box with Gloria’s name on it without a court order, why Mary and her sisters were never served, why all discovery was blocked, why Gloria’s POA was suddenly terminated without notice or hearing, why Carolyn did not have to ever provide a Trust Accounting to Gloria, and the list goes on and on and on.

A lot to cover up and keep track of.

So what does Larkin do?  He holds a kangaroo hearing to terrorize me and this blog and suspends my license based upon changed transcripts made by unlicensed court reporters from unlicensed agencies using inactive or non existent corporate names.  Then he sends out a fake bill for $18,000+ in “court reporter” services and gets the Illinois Supreme Court to rubber stamp that.

More annoying cover up to keep track of.

But you have to admit, Ms. Karma, a lady of strength and determination is not deterred by ARDC flotsam. She just charges on ahead and reveals that the ARDC uses unlicensed court reporters, and then they ban licensed ones from their hearing rooms (Real-Time reporters tried to set up for me on April 10, 2015 during my oral argument, and they were told “don’t set up, we don’t do that here.”  Too funny.  Only non licensed court reporters allowed in ARDC hearing rooms.

The Karma?  Either licenses in Illinois are important and the fact the court reporters in my case were unlicensed and must be stricken from the record and they have to reinstate my license, or they’re not, which means I can practice law without a license because a license means nothing in Illinois.  They’re optional.  Way tooo funny.  Regardless, the cases say that either all parties have to agree to the transcripts, or they are struck.  I looked over the transcripts and there are tons of changes from what I remember, most notably, Judge Stuart denying Gloria was chained in her ante room and Gloria’s pets threatened with euthanization, and then later she says that was the first ti–and asks to change her testimony.  Nope, that dog don’t hunt and I’m not agreeing.  It was all a pretext in a cover up operation.

Larkin and Grogin had their chance to help Mary. They blew it. Instead they used tons of public funds entrusted to them by the State of Illinois to go after myself and Ken Ditkowsky in an obvious breach of fiduciary duty.  Where are the taxes they paid on that waste of money?  IRS form 3849 to be sure needs to be filled out for the time billed to the state on that waste of money proceeding.  All of Sylvia Rudek, Bev Cooper, Ken Cooper–all experts in journalism, blogging and corruption in Illinois agreed, this was a cover up and waste of time and resources.  Mary’s estate was looted and then she was killed off.  Narcotized to death when the money ran out just as Ken and I predicted–actually we all predicted would happen.

Then we find out that Ald. “Fast Eddie” Burke channels all judgeships through him, that blogger Russ Stewart says it now costs $150,000 to get a a “crook” county Judgeship.  And the list goes on and on and on and on.

Recently we find out the City has to settle yet another whistle blower case (What is with the whistle blowers, demanding the government comply with all state, federal and local laws?)  This time, either the Mayor RE had to testify or settle.  He chose settlement.

But even the city is apparently tired of paying out massive settlements in order to cover up crime by politicos:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-police-videos-met-20160603-story.html

In one video, a beautiful young Polish lady is viciously beaten, choked and kicked to the ground behind the bar by a Chicago Police Officer when she refuses to overserve him. Says the Tribune:

In a landmark verdict in 2012, a federal jury awarded [bartender] Obrycka $850,000 and found that a widespread code of silence had emboldened [police officer] Abbate to beat her because he knew he would not be punished.

The Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates alleged abuses by police, designed a user-friendly website for the public at www.iprachicago.org, making information searchable by incident date, type of case and complainant’s name.

Apparently things are changing.  None too soon.

JoAnne

From Ken Ditkowsky

I would think in this case you would want to bend over backwards to disclose the conflict to make sure no one makes assumptions.

Challenge to Jerome Larkin, Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary commission (IARDC) Administrator Re; Elder Abuse

To:  Jerome Larkin, individually and as Administrator of the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary commission (IARDC) and the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary commission.

From:  Kenneth Ditkowsky

Date:  May 28, 2016

Subject:   Challenge to you to tell demonstrate that a public office is a public trust, and formal complaint concerning your ethically challenged and illegal conduct.

Cc:    All interested parties, Honorable L. Lynch, Attorney General of the United States, Justice Department of the United States, Attorney JoAnne Denison, States Attorney of Cook County, 

Dear Mr. Larkin, and the IARDC Commission,

With the pending scandals that are about to unfold in Washington concerning the participants in the current Presidential race, the public is going need an affirmation of the principle that a public office is a public trust.    I understand that you are the last people to be considered to demonstrate that principle.   Mr. Larkin’s conduct in violation of 18 USCA 4, 241,242, 371, 1341 etc. is a cornucopia of deceit, and perfidy.     Subordination of perjury, perjury, conspiracy, and outright theft are the cornerstones of IARDC procedure and purpose.    Few openly nefarious ‘cover-ups’, obstruction of justice, and spoliation of evidence are notoriously exhibited to the public.

Infamy will preserve the analogy of Ms. Denison’s blog to yelling fire in a crowded theater, and the intentional misrepresentation by IARDC lawyers in the name of Mr. Larkin of the holdings in Sawyer and Alvarez.     The assaults on the First Amendment by the IARDC and Larkin are akin to ISIS terrorism, however, the ability to marshal the cover-up of the corruption evident in the Mary Sykes case 09 P 4585 (Circuit Court of Cook County) is beyond the pale.     Knowing that guardianships were limited in scope because of Illinois and USA Constitutional core values,  co-conspirator attorneys Adam Stern, Cynthia Farenga, Peter Schmiedel and others used the Illinois guardianship act to openly and notorious isolate Mary Sykes so that her estate could be  looted.   (I’ve estimated the booty at $3,000,000 dollars).    

Mr. Larkin, Ms. Black, et al have accused me of not telling the truth concerning the Mary Sykes case.    The allegation while unspecific accused me of defaming a group of judges claiming that they acted without jurisdiction and without following the law.    Similar averments were made concerning Ms. Denison; however, the Commission added the offense of publishing the corruption in her blog entitled MaryGSykes.     After my kangaroo trial (and during the kangaroo hearing concerning Ms. Denison) a letter surfaced authored by Cynthia Farenga complaining that our averments of corruption had been published in the Probate Sharks blog.    Disciplinary proceeding followed.     Exculpating evidence was barred, and requirement of clear and convincing proof was modified to mean – Larkin clairvoyance!      The Subpoena of the Mary Sykes file, which verifies the truth of every averment made by Ms. Denison and myself was exclude from the evidence.       The rationale was obvious – the ‘fix’ was in and therefore exculpating evidence had to be kept out of the record.

Unfortunately, the Judges whose corruption was being protected could not be totally orchestrated.  (Subordination of perjury).     Judge Connors admitted at page 91 of her deposition that she was ‘wired’ (and/or ‘fixed’).    She testified that had she known of the jurisdictional deficiencies she would have stopped the proceedings, fixed the problem, however, the same result would have occurred.    Judge Stuart outright lied.   First she denied chaining Gloria Sykes (the daughter of Mary Sykes) in her courtroom – in an effort to torture from her the location of her (Gloria’s) assets, and then she (under cross examination) admitted the same.     Larkin solved this problem by attorning to a slight modification of the hearing transcript to eliminate the perjury.     Such spoliation of evidence appears to be quite common in lawyer disciplinary actions[1].

By way of background, as it appears that the IARDC and lawyer disciplinary commissions have during the relevant time period had the policy of interpreting the guardianship statute to not being an accommodation as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act, butas a forfeiture of all human and civil rights.    Interestingly enough the Illinois legislature (as well as the legislatures of most of the States of the union) make it abundantly clear that:

 (b) Guardianship shall be utilized only as is necessary to promote the well-being of the person with a disability, to protect him from neglect, exploitation, or abuse, and to encourage development of his maximum self-reliance and independence. Guardianship shall be ordered only to the extent necessitated by the individual's actual mental, physical and adaptive limitations.  755 ILCS 5/11a – 3b

 To make certain that senior citizens such as Mary Sykes, Alice Gore, **** are not exploited (as actually occurred) the person seeking a guardianship must prove not only the incompetency but the degree of incompetency by CLEAR AND CONVINCING EVIDENCE.      (This is the same standard that is applicable to the IARDC disciplinary proceedings)      It is respectfully suggested that in neither proceeding is even the lowest standard of evidence (burden of proof) required.  (See page 91 of Maureen Connors evidence deposition)

Of course, in kangaroo proceedings the result desired by the 18 USCA 371 cover-up is achieved.     It is achieved with or without a scintilla of evidence.      The orchestration of such is the subject of this letter of complaint.     Rule 8.3 and 18 USCA 4 required both JoAnne Denison and myself to offend Ms. Farenga, Ms. Black, Mr. Stern, Mr. Larkin, Ms. Sharp, ***** and all the other attorneys who have participated in the actual miscreant conduct or its cover-up.      As for Ms. Denison, Mr. Lanre Amu, ***** (including myself) to not offend Mr. Larkin and his 18 USCA 371 cover- conspirators we also would be subject to possible obstruction of justice averments.     We however stood up to be counted and continue every day to demand Honest investigations, collection of the Federal and State income taxes (including interest and penalties) from the 18 USCA 241,242,371 co-conspirators, and abrogation of the cover-up.     NB.   It is my calculation that each conspirator jointly and severally owes very substantial taxes to the USA and the State of Illinois.   For instance, in Sykes @$3 million dollars is due; in Gore $1.5 million, Tyler 8 million *******.   [2]

My challenge.      It appears at this point in time that Jerome Larkin and his 18 USCA 371 co-conspirators are not going to get away with their perfidy.      The term “cover up” is going to be a very serious charge and the ‘great unwashed’ are not going to be led by the corrupt political and judicial machines in a euphoria of procrastination, deception, ******.

Therefore, let us get right to the chase.     While Larkin has consistently refused to detail the charges made against either JoAnne or myself, it is clear that each charge has to do with the Sykes case and the issue of judicial propriety.     Being more specific each charge has to do with whether a corrupt judge ignored a lack of jurisdiction to effectuate the elder cleansing of Mary Sykes.     All the evidence is in the Mary Sykes file 09 P 4585.     This file will unequivocally determine:  

1.       Jurisdiction

2.       Whether safeguards of the Constitution were complied with

3.       Whether a wrongful forfeiture occurred as to Mary’s liberty and property rights.

My challenge is for Mr. Larkin or any of the accused miscreants to produce out of the original file 09 P 4585 (Mary Sykes) the following documents.      If the documents are not produced, honor requires Mr. Larkin and each of his co-conspirators as well as each of appointed guardian ad litem to surrender their law licenses and confess to the United States of America their part in the elder cleansing of Mary Sykes.    Simply put – let us put this matter to rest right now!

1)      Jurisdiction.     In order for a person – disabled or not, the court must meet the due process standard of notice and hearing.    The person who is to be adjudicated must be personally served with summons.   The Summons must meet the criteria of the statute 755 ILCS 5/11a – 10, which is very specific and the criterion procrustean as there may be a taking of constitutionally protected Rights, privileges and immunities.    In addition, there may be a stranger having control over another person’s property.

a.        Challenge:    Produce a copy of a summons that was actually personally served on Mary Sykes prior to any hearing on her competency that sought to ascertain the extent and nature, if any, of any disability that Mary Sykes might have actually suffered from 755 ILCS 5/11a -3b    This is important as the legislature wanted in writing appropriate warnings so that the rights of the alleged disabled person were protected[3].

b.      Challenge:  Produce a Sheriff’s return of Summons in proper form attesting to actual service on Mary Sykes and the compliance with the Statute...    This is particularly important as oral information must be given the alleged disabled person[4].

c.       Challenge:    Produce affidavits of notice being given to next of kin (close relatives, near relatives) prior to any hearing that was intended to obtain the information required by 755 ILCS 5/11a – 3b.   This is jurisdictional pursuant to 755 ILCS 5/11a – 10.[5]   The people who should have received the prior notice include both of Mary’s sisters and Gloria Sykes.

2)       Constitutional Safeguards.      As human and civil rights are subject to forfeiture notice and hearing are prime requirements of due process.      The statute is very clear, to wit:

 (b) Guardianship shall be utilized only as is necessary to promote the well-being of the person with a disability, to protect him from neglect, exploitation, or abuse, and to encourage development of his maximum self-reliance and independence. Guardianship shall be ordered only to the extent necessitated by the individual's actual mental, physical and adaptive limitations.

Thus it is apparent that this is a very serious hearing and cannot be obviated by agreements of the two guardian ad litem and the attorney for the petitioner.   Actual evidence must be presented that is clear and convincing that the alleged incompetent is in fact incompetent.   Actual evidence must be presented as to the extent of the disability and how a reasonable accommodation must be obtained.

Challenge:     produce a transcript of the proceedings in which a 755 ILCS 5/11a – 3b hearing was indeed conducted as to the competency and extent thereof of MARY SYKES.    As the Court provides a court reporter for these very serious hearings the official court reporters office should have either filed or have available for transcription such a hearing[6].

As Mr. Larkin and the IARDC had the burden of proof to prove disciplinary breaches by both Denison and Ditkowsky if the IARDC can not produce the appropriate materials referred to supra, Larkin and every attorney involved directly or indirectly should resign his/her position immediately and surrender his/her law license as each is a participant in a very serious FRAUD.        

If the IARDC and the miscreants can produce from the original file, either in its present form or the sanitized version that has evolved each of the Challenged items both JoAnne and yours truly deserve the punishment meted out plus and I will publicly acknowledge that fact and make a formal apology.  HOWEVER if the IARDC, Larkin, Farenga, Black, Smart, **** cannot produce the appropriate returns of service from the Sheriff of Cook County, the affidavits of prior notice of the hearing required by 755 ILCS 5/11a – 3b, and a transcript of that hearing each of the attorneys, including the 18 USCA 371 IARDC attorney/attorneys  should resign and surrender his/her license to practice law[7].    

This ‘elder cleansing’ is a very serious business.     Core Rights of citizens are being violated and confiscated along with their life savings and quality of life.   In the 1930s and 1940s when the Nazi hordes were systematically prospecting in their victims mouths of the gold in their teeth were shocked and outraged; however, when **** orchestrated a similar scenario not only is not a word of protest forthcoming, but the Illinois Supreme Court and the IARDC join in a massive cover-up and attornment.

The gantlet has been thrown.        Are we willing to accept less than HONESTY and Honor from our public officials?     If so, WHY?       A public office is a public trust.      As Americans we are entitled to HONEST public officials who have actual integrity – not the nadir of society and our population.      Larkin – put up or shut up!      

Let me suggest that if you cannot produce a majority of the items demanded supra you are admitting to some very serious felonies that not only diminish you but all around you.     Everyone makes errors and thus Americans are universally forgiving.    Intentionally preying on the elderly is one of sins that cannot be forgiven!     Your failure to either produce the items demanded or make restitution for your crimes against the ‘great unwashed’ is unacceptable.

Demand is made to the IARDC and the Illinois Supreme Court to enforce the Rule of Law equally and if Larkin and the miscreants who have acted in concert with him cannot produce the evidence required by this complaint appropriate punishment be handed out to Larkin and his 18 USCA 371 co-conspirators.

Respectfully submitted, 

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[1] It should be noted that the affidavits of Gloria Sykes, Scott Evans et al verify every statement that either Denison or yours truly makes concerning these cases.     In the Alice Gore case, which does not appear to part of the original charges the offending Guardian ad Litem was accused by the Florida Attorney General of fraud – she was noted to have filed a claim as an heir to an estate that she was a stranger.  (See Probate Sharks blog).    Her benefactor, a large nursing home operator, has been fined by the USA and others for various Medicare, Medicaid **** frauds.   The Gore Estate is reported to have extreme irregularities attorned to by the presiding judge****    The Holocaust becomes quite relevant to the Gore case as it was disclosed that the avarice of the judicial officials including prospecting his Mrs. Gore’s mouth for the gold in her teeth.     Naturally, Mr. Larkin could find nothing amiss with the collecting of gold from the teeth of elder cleansing victims.

[2] As Illinois is on the verge of Bankruptcy and the legislature want to increase the taxpayer burden, it is now quite appropriate to collect from each of the miscreants their joint and several liability.   It is my supposition that each of the lawyer defendants is guilty of not reporting the tax liability on his/her 1040 Tax return.    Had they done so *****.

[3] This will be interesting as the Clerk of the Circuit Court has admitted that she did not even have such a form printed at the time of the Mary Sykes scenario was unfolding.    The form summons thus had to be specifically drafted by the attorney representing the petitioner.    It does appear that the wrong form summons were presented to the Sheriff of Cook County.    These summons were not served because Mary was not a resident of Cook County – she had been abducted and removed to DuPage County.    This bit of legerdemain suggested FRAUD was evident on day one.

[4] The Sheriff of Cook County wrote a letter denying any return of summons, however, Mr. Schmiedel claims a bench service.      He does not claim that the 755 ILCS 5/11a – 10 form summons was ever served, nor has he claimed that the procedure required as followed.

[5] No prior notice has ever been claimed to have been given to Gloria Sykes (daughter), or two either of the two sisters of Mary.     Even the kangaroo panel could not ‘find’ that notice was given, they instead said that the two sister had knowledge of some hearing.

[6] Interestingly Adam Stern wrote to Gloria Sykes an e-mail in which he disclosed that no such hearing had been had.   The incompetency was determined by the two guardian ad litem meeting with the Attorney for the petitioner and the judge signing the order presented.    If the e-mail is accurate, a key element of due process is missing (along with notice) and the proceedings are so tainted that gross criminal conduct has occurred in the Circuit Court of Cook County and not only must the offending judges be removed from office, but they are the attorneys attorning to such procedures must be subjected to serious disciplinary proceedings that include disbarment.    Contrary to Mr. Larkin’s assertion – this offense against the Constitution of the State of Illinois and the United States of America is so obscene as to warrant criminal prosecution of the offending attorneys.    Each of the attorneys and each of the judges involved knew of should have known that 18 USCA 241, 242  and 42 USCA 1983 were openly and notoriously violated.        This lack of propriety coupled with the theft of a million dollars in Gold Coins (see Gloria Sykes affidavit on file in both the Ditkowsky and Denison disciplinary files) suggests some additional felonies!     Exactly how the IARDC can ignore Ms. Sykes’ affidavit and the lack of due process is a mystery that suggest felonies galore! 

[7] The attorneys on the various panels who were not independent enough to object to the kangaroo proceedings in the Denison and Ditkowsky proceedings are not being given a pass –  they also are co-conspirators and wrongdoers as they rubber=stamped the cover=up in the Sykes case.     Attorneys take an oath to uphold the Constitution.    Upholding the constitution is not consistent with attempting to silence the exposure of judicial (or political) corruption.    

Ken Ditkowsky

www.ditkowskylawoffice.com

I don’t do fundraisers unless I have to, but right now our phones and internet are out and people are right now trying to fax me corruption information.

If you can possibly spare some kind of money to help us out, that will be great.  I know the people I serve have already paid other lawyers hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars, even hundreds of thousands of dollars, only to have their own attorneys do nothing, or at worst, they threw them under the bus when all the money was gone.

I do understand and empathize.  And I hate to ask. But we do not have any grants or funds or donations from anyone other than courtroom victims.

The bad news is, I always scrape by.  The good news is that you can rest assured I will not turn on your or defame or libel you as you have frequently encountered in the past.  I am not being paid by anyone except donations at this time.

You can text or email me a check made out to my name for phones and internet. Anything in excess of what we have to pay will not be cashed. Email me at joanne@denisonlaw.com, or text me a check to 773-255-7608.  You can also use the facebook money transfer system to “joanne marie denison.”  donations made to justice for every 1 are not tax deductible because we do publish suggested changes to legislation and that makes us a 501-c-4 and not a tax deductible 501-c-3.  We abide by the IRS rules for charitable corporations

I am currently working on going to Washington with all your cases and if you have forms to fill out still, do them now please.

And if anyone wants to volunteer at the office, I have a lot of projects that involve research and analyzing data to spot corruption.

Please post and cross post.

and wheel them away.  Well, that’s one solution.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/11145381/Up-to-a-dozen-Ukraine-officials-dumped-in-wheelie-bins.html