Here in Chicago, the Democratic Party is funded in part by Esformes and his group.    Who do you think keeps them in power?      Worse yet, when JoAnne Denison stepped out to complain concerning the terrorism being meted out to the elderly – it was the Democratic Party’s IARDC that suspended her law license and has harassed her TO THIS DAY, NOT A SINGLE POLITICAL OPERATIVE  (ALL DEMOCRATS) HAS STEPPED UP TO TAKE HER SIDE OR THE SIDE OF ANY OF THE PEOPLE ABUSED BY GUARDIANSHIP.

Going one step further – have you seen one Chicago or Illinois politician stand up for the elderly?      I’ll bet a dollar to your penny that every one of these politicians have accepted money from the nursing home industry and in particular the Esformes group.  

Hypocrisy is a bitter pill

Ken Ditkowsky

From Joanne;

Ken is right, I did nothing wrong except blog about corruption and because of my blog, at least Judge Jane Stuart was removed for her shameful perfidy in the Mary G Sykes case. Mary was granny napped from her home of decades and forced to live in Naperville and then a string of nursing homes–all places where she made it clear she did not want to go.

As for Ken, his charges were clearly bogus and trumped up. When a group of Mary Sykes’ friends came to him and begged him for help in protecting her, he did his due diligence and wrote letters to critical witnesses–her doctor and friends and neighbors, calling upon them to provide him with crucial information they might know about Mary Sykes. This was his Rule 137 duty to investigate every case before assuming his duty as attorney to any litigant in the case. Every attorney knows or should understand this very important duty of ethics to the court system and public.

The ARDC then twisted this around and said that Ken was asking Mary’s physician, Dr. Patel to breach his HIPA obligations, when that was not stated in the letter at all and Dr. Patel never even responded to the letter.

When brought before the ARDC tribunal to testify, Dr. Patel never testified he took the letter as an invitation to reveal any confidential information, yet Ken was hit with a 3 year suspension of his law license regardless of the facts, evidence and testimony.

In the end, Mary was murdered, grievances were filed with ARDC over the murder and no attorney involved–Adam Stern, Cynthia Farenga, Peter Schmeidel was ever disciplined over this clearly shameful case of egregious attorney misconduct.

The real kicker was that Gloria Sykes, who was part of the group and even spearheaded it, held Mary’s Power of Attorney for Health Care which meant that since she hired Ken, there could not possibly be any wrongful disclosure of healthcare information regarding Mary.

The ARDC has not apologized to Ken and reinstated him and for the most part, the probate court and its minion attorneys continue to violate the civil right and human rights of all litigants before it left and right. They summarily invalidate POAs without notice, a petition, service of a summons or any basic constitutional rights being afforded the victim and their family. They summarily evict family members from the victim’s residence, and often these family members are elderly and or disabled. Ruining lives and families, ripping them apart is still seen as “business as usual” on the 18th floor of the Daley center.

No one seems to care.

This corrupt system continues to use the OPG, Office of Public Guardian and OSG or Office of State Guardian to accomplish these illegal goals left and right, up and down and even sideways.

Worse yet, the OPG bills estates $275 per hour to destroy families and force the elderly and disabled into nursing homes against their consent and will.

Clearly that is double dipping from the state/government because the overhead of these attorney and their corrupt agencies–OPG and OSG has already been paid by the taxpayer!

That’s right, you the taxpayer pay to ruin families and destroy lives to a state agency, and then they turn around and bill estates $275 per hour! It’s nothing but fraud and elder financial abuse.

Why the FBI and states attorneys offices have not shut down all this corruption is beyond the pale.

As for me, all I did was blog about what was going on in the Mary Sykes case and I was summarily suspended for 3 years and my license has not been reinstated either. The ARDC has stated that my blog, this blog was a “danger to the public.”

They have not apologized, they have not made it clear to Illinois Licensed attorneys that blogging about corruption is protected first amendment speech and they continue to turn a blind eye to the horrors endemic to the public on the 18th floor of the Daley center.