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About Joanne M Denison

Former Patent and Trademark Attorney practicing in Chicago, Illinois accepting clients nationwide. We also did trademarks, general intellectual property and business litigation. See our website at www.DenisonLaw.com. Now suspended for 3 years by the Illinois Atty Regn and Disciplinary Commission for blogging about corruption and telling truths that the ARDC wants to cover up. And while I am doing that, I will continue on my blogging work. Now I work full time on court corruption and corruption at the ARDC and JIB (Illinois attorney and judge discipline boards)

Fundraiser– Help us help corruption victims

Most of you already know our work, but we have ongoing expenses to keep our little office open–rent, cell phone, comcast, fax, copier paper, etc.  It is very, very expensive to operate any type of an office, but especially in the area of helping out court corruption victims.

Any amount will help, no amount is too small.

Please read on and we all thank you for your support.

We need help to fight corruption. We need help to fight for victims who have experienced a loss of a loved one in Probate (guardianship) or Custody through corruption (lack of jurisdiction, changed transcripts, lying in court, false evidence, lying shrinks and courtroom vendors.
Right now, we are trying to raise funds for telephone service, supplies and whatever else is needed to help fight corruption for our victims (~$1800). Most of you are familiar with the work we do – we help everyone and do not turn anyone away.  We are also trying to get to Washington, D.C. and deliver the stories of court corruption vicitms to the Senate Subcommittee on Aging and the House subcommittee on the Judiciary.  I  am always told by politician that the FBI, the States Attorneys and other government agencies that these are “isolated incidencts” and that’s why they do not have to act.  You and I know this is code speak for an excuse to cover up the massive amounts of fraud in health care and in custody battles.

Currently, we are working on taking cases involving courtroom corruption in Probate Court to the Senate Subcommittee on the Judiciary. We want to demand that they appoint a special investigator to review all the corrupt cases where seniors and the disabled are at high risk involving “target, isolate, medicate, drain the estate, eliminate and cremate,” as well as custody where parents are denied co-parenting (50-50) due to corruption in the court room – no service of pleadings, no due process, evaluation reports ignored, and lying psychiatrists/psychologists.   We also want to go to the House Subcommittee on the judiciary to have them appoint a special investigator in custody/state kidnap cases where DCFS and police reports are 180 degrees of home inspections, psych reports from court tied in evaluators–psychD’s and psychiatrists that always want to declare the poorer parent as having a mental disease or disorder which they do not have so the richer parent pays them the most money for the best (albeit lying) outcome.
All our work is important. We return loved ones and their monies to their families.

We are taking any donation – no donation is too small. Everyone who makes a request will be put on my prayer list if you do not have the funds to donate, just let me know.

We are mostly looking for small donations of $10 to $50, but any amount can be put to good use in cleaning up our courtrooms.

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.  I can send you a paypal invoice.

We do not have any government funding 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, see our wish list on our blog at http://www.marygsykes.com,)

Joanne

Absolutely Amazing–judge claim that Absolute Immunity impugns them from corruption

http://www.hannapub.com/ouachitacitizen/news/local_state_headlines/judges-claim-immunity-to-lawsuits-for-acts-of-corruption/article_4de47d9a-389f-11e6-bff3-c78a264b282a.html

And you wonder why Jerome Larkin has a problem

Some Fourth Judicial District Court judges, who face claims for damages in a lawsuit filed in federal court by their peer Judge Sharon Marchman, filed pleadings Monday arguing they cannot be sued for acts of corruption or malice.

The four defendant judges making that argument are judges Fred Amman, Wilson Rambo and Carl Sharp as well as retired Judge Ben Jones, who now serves as court administrator, at Fourth Judicial District Court for Ouachita and Morehouse parishes. They are represented by special assistant attorney general Brian D. Landry, of Shreveport.

Those four judges are just a few of a handful of defendants who Marchman claimed violated her constitutional rights when she tried to expose the defendants’ concerted efforts to cover up law clerk Allyson Campbell’s alleged payroll fraud and document destruction.

In her lawsuit filed April 19 in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Marchman is seeking damages from the judges, Campbell, their attorneys as well as from former Attorney General Buddy Caldwell.

Many of the same defendants also were sued by Monroe businessman Stanley Palowsky III in Fourth Judicial District Court. Palowsky’s July 2015 lawsuit against Campbell and the judges detailed many of the same allegations that appeared in Marchman’s lawsuit. Marchman is represented in her federal lawsuit by attorneys Sedric Banks of Monroe and Joe Ward of Covington, who also represent Palowsky in his district court litigation.

“It is from this diseased root system of a state court action that Plaintiff Judge Marchman’s civil rights’ lawsuit arises, with even the same gardeners, in the form of Mr. Palowsky’s own attorneys seeking to tend the same noxious vines in this federal action,” stated a proposed memorandum filed Monday by the four defendant judges in U.S. District Court.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the four defendant judges were awaiting approval of their proposed memorandum since it exceeded the page count requirements under federal court guidelines.

In their proposed memorandum, the four defendant judges urged U.S. District Court Judge Maurice Hicks Jr. to follow the example of ad hoc Judge Jerry Barbera, of Thibodeaux, who dismissed Palowsky’s lawsuit against Campbell and the judges in November 2015 on the grounds of judicial immunity. At that time, Barbera ruled that judges and law clerks were shielded from lawsuits — even if they committed criminal acts — because they performed a necessary judicial function.

“The alleged cover-up allegations are the most egregious, as Plaintiff Judge Marchman is accusing the Defendant Judges of what constitutes essentially corruption,” stated the judges’ memorandum. “Although not specifically pled, there is also an undercurrent of implied malice, when Plaintiff Judge Marchman asserts her retaliation charge.”

“However, acts of corruption or malice, even if true, do not affect absolute judicial immunity,” the judges added.

The defendant judges argued further that a U.S. District Court judge must set “all its experience and common sense aside (to) find some viable constitutional claim” in Marchman’s lawsuit. If that happened, the judges were still protected under judicial immunity, they argued.

The defendant judges claim Marchman, like other judges of the court, did not believe any crime had been committed when allegations first surfaced that Campbell had committed payroll fraud. That matter was discussed during a personnel committee meeting among Fourth Judicial District Court judges, but Marchman didn’t ask an outside authority to investigate, the judges said.

“… (Marchman) did not recommend referral of the payroll issue to any law enforcement or prosecuting authority for investigation or prosecution,” the judges’ memorandum stated.

The defendant judges argued Marchman’s claims that her constitutional rights were violated can be boiled down to frustration with other judges who did not agree with her administrative recommendations concerning Campbell.

“Plaintiff Judge Marchman may truly be a pariah, or an outcast among her peers, but that status appears to be of her own making, and not the actions of the Defendant Judges,” the judges’ memorandum stated.

Marchman’s claim that her free speech rights as a private citizen were violated rings false, the judges argued, especially since private citizens do not generally enjoy the right to participate in the judges’ personnel committee meetings.

“For whatever reason, Mr. Palowsky, Plaintiff Judge Marchman, and their attorneys do not like this law clerk,” stated the judges’ memorandum. “Further, Plaintiff Judge Marchman is unhappy with her judicial colleagues’ decisions concerning the law clerk, even to the point where Plaintiff Judge Marchman moved for discharge of employment, and none of the other 10 members of the bench would allegedly second her motion.”

From Ken Ditkowsky: How can Larkin teach Legal Ethics with a Straight Face?

Answer:  Check and see if his fingers are crossed behind his back!

From Ken Ditkowsky:

From: kenneth ditkowsky <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com>

To:  about 80 email address
Subject: Have you been wondering how Jerome Larkin can teach LEGAL ETHICS with a straight face?
Date: Jul 14, 2016 11:04 AM
I trust that everyone knows that Jerome Larkin and the guardian ad litem who orchestrated the exhibition into the mouth of Alice Gore to recover (and not inventory) the 29 teeth that were suspected of having a few grains of gold in them both teach ethics in required Continuing Legal Education courses.    Those of us who are aware of the perfidy, corrupt conduct, and amorality of both of these individuals literally choke at the thought!    
However, unless you live in ‘wonderland’ or some other fictional cline, you have learned to live with Hypocrisy promulgated by the corrupt judicial and political elite.   Even the fiction of honor, honesty, truth, sincerity or dedication to America’s core values in recent weeks has been shattered.    The most recent filings by Larkin before the Illinois Supreme Court are magnificent examples of a plea for special privilege and ‘cover-up.’    
Larkin was caught RED HANDED–NO EXCUSES
Knowing that he  routinely hired unlicensed court reporters and knowing that he was barred by the statute from paying all unlicensed court reporters, nevertheless he dipped into public trust funds and embezzled thousands of dollars.   Apparently this nefariousness was common place as when an inquiry was made as to what other disciplinary proceedings were tainted by Larkin’s personal ethicial deficiencies.  (We usually call such conduct theft – but we are dealing with the Judicial elite, i.e. those criminals who are placed in positions of trust and confidence based upon political clout rather than competence – and therefore we have to bend the knee for these esteemed miscreants).
The net is, in spite of all that talk about LAW AND ORDER honor, honesty, and “I am fighting for you” the people’s business is a joke.   Our political leaders will say anything and do anything to benefit and enrich themselves as noted by the conduct and candor of all the presidential candidates on either sides of party lines.
It is time for Law enforcement to DO AN HONEST INVESTIGATION and after gathering all the facts to indict Jerome Larkin for his malfeasance in office, conversion, violation of civil rights **** , N.B. The IDR should be collecting the taxes due from the political and judicial elite.
It is time for HONESTY, INTELLIGENCE, HONOR, AND MORALITY  to be part of the Judicial system and in particular the Judicial System of Illinois.    No elderly person should fear getting old and being a victim of elder cleansing.   Jerome Larkin has joint and several civil liability for the income benefits derived by the miscreants that he protects and should pay the taxes, interest and penalties due thereupon.   (Illinois is on the verge of Bankruptcy and if these taxes were collected it would not need to raise taxes – exactly why Larkin should be immune to the same rules that the rest of us are subject to is a mystery)
 
Ken Ditkowsky

From Joanne:  I would like to note that Larkin has plenty of co-conspirators to chip in on the $18,550+ bill:  Sharon Opryszek, Melissa Smart, Sang Yul Lee, Ziad Alnaqib, Stephen Splitt (ironically, also an ethics reporter at John Marshall).  If they each put up about $3,700 that would take care of their false, fraudulent and void judgment against me for $18,554 in false court reporter and vendor charges they rubber stamped through the Illinois Supreme Court without notice to myself or any one else the charges were primarily fake.  Then they can surrender their law licenses, place a notice on the ARDC website and apologize to me and the citizens of the State of Illinois for their legerdemain and perfidy.  (as Ken noted, we cannot simply call the “judicial elite” thieves and fraudsters.  We must be careful in our use of language. Theft is embezzlement or conversion, and lying and cheating is malfeasance, misfeasance or defalcation.)

From John Zamboni–why write a Writ of Cert to SCOI when the odds are against you

From: Zamboni John
Sent: Jul 13, 2016 5:04 PM
To:
Subject: RE: Filing a petition for certiorari in the Supreme Court is an exercise in rigged gambling and waste

I reviewed your well thought argument against pro se’s going to the Supreme court and do not for a minute deny any of your statistics are invalid.  I cite many of the same when I have people ask me about going to the Supreme Court.  Nevertheless, I see no harm and also a certain benefit in pro se litigants taking their shot at winning the lottery for several reasons:

1.  Even though they may have a one in ten million shot at getting heard, it is possible for them to strike it rich.  I cite as an example Gideon v. Wainright, that was won by a pro se appellant, whose case you would have said had no chance at winning.  It is now considered by everyone to be one of the top three cases of all time to be heard by the US Supreme Court.

2. It may be considered fun, like playing the lottery.  There is a certain amount of satisfaction of being able to say you fought the bastards all the way to the bitter end. I filed one pro se suit all the way to the US Supreme Court concerning the building of Safeco Field which was a $200 million stadium financed by taxpayers.  They could not build that thing until all appeals had been exhausted. Even though they eventually were able build it, they could not build it until my appeal was dealt with, which took six months longer than the mainstream attorneys, who were compensated with millions in attorney fees. There was a certain amount of satisfaction in knowing that I was the last man standing. I even heard that mine got within one vote of being heard.  I have had a couple of clients who filed, who have the satisfaction of knowing that their opponents had to spend thousands to respond to the petition, because their opponents felt uncomfortable enough about it, that they felt they had to respond in order to keep from losing.

3.  It can be therapeutic.  I had one client  who had been declared mentally insane by at least 4 different courts. He submitted a very well written brief, taking a shot at establishing a civil Gideon for the mentally disabled.  His arguments were treated with respect, and most the defendants felt they had to respond with briefs written by attorneys.  While he lost, he had the satisfaction of knowing that of all his legal actions, this one was the one that was the most well received because it was a case of first impression. His only regret was he couldn’t figure out a way to put his opponents on trial as war criminals before some international tribunal.

4.  Finally, there is simply doing it for the intellectual challenge and to build support for your position.  Sure, you may be tilting windmills but in the process, you circulate your ideas among others.  Who knows, you or someone else might associate with, might win another case somewhere else, because they cut and pasted a thought developed by you.

Don’t think for a minute that you are not doing the same thing when you advocate trying to win support of Donald Trump.  One thing I have learned about the rich, is that they didn’t get rich by being generous.  The only reason Donald Trump is talking about a crooked judge is that he is trying to get off the hook for swindling those students out of $30,000 at Trump University.  He will not contribute a dime to any else’s efforts without making he gets more than he put in.  Good luck on getting him to contribute money to our cause. .

Thanks for your comments!

From Ken Ditkowsky–Why is Jerome Larkin not in Jail

Why is Jerome Larkin not in jail – Why is he give license to censor the call for an Honest investigation of elder cleansing.

To: “JoAnne M. Denison” <joanne@justice4every1.com>, and 90 others
Subject: Why is Jerome Larkin not in jail – Why is he give license to censor the call for an Honest investigation of elder cleansing.
Date: Jul 13, 2016 12:52 PM
The battle lines have been drawn.   If you are exposing corruption of the privileged political and judicial elite you are “toast!”   No matter where you turn there is an concerted effort to abrogate the core values of America and in particular the First Amendment.
In Florida the Helen Stone case is a beacon of horror.   The extra-judicial judicial treatment of Barbara Stone sands as hallmark of corruption.     Dr. Sugar is now under attack again as he stands up against the illegal guardianships for profit that are so lucrative to Florida judicial miscreants.  Apparently, Dr. Sugar is making headway.   Mrs. Smith had to fight off a guardian and a court the found that her objection to the exploitation of Col Smith warranted the annulment of her marriage.   Mrs. W objected to a guardian seizing her personal monies.  The Circuit Court saw nothing wrong with a confiscation penalty being imposed.  The Appellate Court reversed, so the trial court just assessed the confiscation penalty as the guardian’s attorney fees.
In Illinois we have Jerome Larkin totally lawless misconduct and precedent.    Indeed, Larkin usurped the Illinois Constitution and the US Constitution by ruling that it was not unethical to harvest the gold in Alice Gore’s mouth, the million dollars of gold coins in Mary Sykes’ safety deposit box, *****, but it was ethically challenged to make the same public in the MaryGSykes blog.    He described the disclosure of Judicial corruption and in particular giving public the information as to where to find the evidence of Judicial corruption as akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater.    (In particular, at page 91 of her evidence deposition Judge Connors admitted to being ‘fixed’ and or “wired”  – and in the unaltered transcript of Judge Stuart’s testimony she admits to perjury)    Indeed, so necessary to the quest to destroy America’s First Amendment and Right of Free Speech that even the Supreme Court of Illinois is apparently willing to look the other way and allow Larkin to misuse public funds (embezzlement) to pay unlicensed court reporters for their ‘services rendered’ even though the Illinois Legislature in paragraph 13 of the Court reporter licensing Act prohibits such activity.
I do not know if any of the other claims as to similar action are accurate, but a full court press is in full force and effect to protect the business of elder cleansing, to wit: isolation of the elderly so that a guardian can be appointed to with corrupt Court supervision individual elderly can be stripped of their liberty, their property, their humanity and every dollar that they saved or amassed in their lifetime.   (The Mary Sykes case 09 P 4585 is a text book example of exactly how the dastardly deed is done)

From Anon Lawyer–ABA rule censoring free speech are nothing but a thinly veiled cover up for Case Fixing systems

From: Anon Lawyer
Sent: Jul 13, 2016 11:16 AM
To: ‘SAM’ , ‘Harley Chick’ , ‘Gwendolyn Shavers’ , ‘JoAnne M Denison’
Subject: Linked is a article regarding ethics and judges/lawyers.

Here are a few of my favorite quotes from the lined article.

 

“those who want to be a judge can’t discuss most issues that voters are interested in.”  So you are left with Bar Association reviews (those not “connected” do not get rated highly.

 

“There are also ethics rules that bar lawyers from besmirching other lawyers.”  So much for freedom of speech.  With no criticism, there is no way to fix (or identify) any problems with the system or profession.  Speaking up is an ethics violation.  And we complain about the police “code of silence.”  Lawyers have a required code of silence to not besmirch other lawyers?

 

” So it’s a quid pro quo.”  In other words, lawyers/judges help each other.  You donate to my campaign, you can expect me to help you in court.  Seems to me this is nothing but a system to ensure case fixing and continue the public’s low regard for lawyers.

 

“I’ve been applying for judicial positions for some time,” Reid said. “Frankly, I haven’t been successful. After this last go-around, I just decided, if I’m going to be a judge, I have to run for it.”  In other words, judges are not appointed by quality, but by who they know.  Ordinary people have to do it the correct way – by being elected by the people.

 

“in 2009, when she was initially appointed to the bench, she failed to get a 65-percent approval rating, the minimum needed to be considered a recommended choice for a judgeship.”  Yet, “Illinois Supreme Court last year picked her over Reid and other candidates to fill the circuit court vacancy”  Sounds like she has the qualities to be an Illinois judge – friends in high places.

 

“Those bar polls can have a lot of value, but I’d much rather have the approval of the Illinois Supreme Court.”  While I think it is BS that voters must rely on attorneys to tell them who is qualified, it is even more BS that we discount people who may know the candidates, and instead, go strictly with those who have friends on the Supreme Court.

Question:  Am I in violation of ethics rules by pointing out and commenting on the above.  If so, then someone must have hacked my email, and this did not come from me.

http://illinoistimes.com/article-17430-running-for-judge.html

Not so Deep Throat

 

Tonight on Twigg Cafe Radio Dr. Karen Huffer and Legal Abuse Syndrome

Subject: July 12th, 2016 – Tonight on Justice Served – Dr. Karin Huffer – Legal Abuse Syndrome and ADA Courtroom Advocacy – Equal Access Advocates, 6:00pm, est!
Date: Jul 12, 2016 12:26 PM
Tonight on Justice Served – Dr. Karin Huffer – Legal Abuse Syndrome and ADA Courtroom Advocacy – Equal Access Advocates
“We are focusing on persons with invisible disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act protects ALL persons having equal access to all public and private services. If you can’t see the disability it is a Legal abuse to accuse them of using a ploy and being dishonest. Another legal abuse is forcing the person to reveal and prove the disability in court allowing opposing to counsel to challenge it. These are unfair tactics that discriminate against the 1 in 4 Americans that suffer from such things as depression, anxiety, PTSD, TBI, cancer, cardiac conditions and many others.”
Andy Ostrowski host of Justice Served improving the quality & equality of access to the Justice System in America.
justiceserved.online

From Jill Soderman-Sandusky’s adopted son beaten and sexually abused

Law enforcement does not like to take in rape reports, prosecute them and get rid of sex trafficking.  Some cops are even part of it.  See what Jerry Sandusky’s adopted son has to say about all of this.  Thanks so much, Jill.

EXCLUSIVE: Jerry Sandusky’s adopted, abused son demands reform to benefit child sex abuse victims

  • “I always thought I was the only one, until I heard others speaking their truth,” Matt Sandusky (pictured) told The News.

“I always thought I was the only one, until I heard others speaking their truth,” Matt Sandusky (pictured) told The News.

(GENE J. PUSKAR/AP)

There’s a new voice demanding change to benefit New York’s child sex abuse victims: Matt Sandusky, adopted and abused son of the infamous Penn State pedophile.

The Daily News campaign to eliminate or revise the current cutoff law forcing victims to bring civil or criminal charges by their 23rd birthday needs support from local politicians, Sandusky said Thursday.

“It’s a major effort, and we support that,” the founder and executive director of the Peaceful Hearts Foundation told The News. “The current laws in New York are particularly heinous.

“Victims only have until age 23 to go public — that’s just not realistic. There’s no bigger need for change than in New York, with those type of laws.”

Child sex abuse laws must protect victims — here’s how to do that

Sandusky, who was abused for years by Penn State pariah and assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, said most child abuse victims don’t come to grips with what happened for years — if not decades.

“On the male side of things, it’s 20 years or more, if ever,” Sandusky said.

Sandusky plans to attend a May 25 protest in Manhattan in support of two women who say they were sexually abused as teens by one-time rabbinical student Marc Gafni.

“It’s obviously something I feel strongly, passionately about, to be there in person,” Matt Sandusky said. “I love the opportunity to be there and help out.”

Statute of limitations denied these victims from seeking justice

Gafni, who was never charged with a crime, says his sexual encounters with the young women were consensual.

Sandusky said holding predators publicly liable accomplishes two things: Preventing the criminals from targeting other kids, and encouraging other victims to come forward with their stories.

Jerry Sandusky (c.) was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison after his October 2012 conviction for sexually abusing 10 boys across 15 years.

Jerry Sandusky (c.) was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison after his October 2012 conviction for sexually abusing 10 boys across 15 years.

(ANDY COLWELL/AP)

“That’s the whole point of statute of limitations reform, being able to name these people and stop the abuse,” Sandusky said.

The words of abuse survivors have fallen on deaf ears in Albany, where the Child Victims Act has waited for passage since 2006.

Statute of limitations reform advocates call NY ‘national shame’

“We’ll discuss it with our members,” said Michael Whyland, spokesman for Assembly speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx). State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R-L.I.) and Gov. Cuomo offered no response to the campaign urging statute of limitations reform.

The Daily News on Tuesday plastered the office numbers and photos of Heastie, Flanagan and Cuomo on the front page, urging New Yorkers to call them and demand reform. The current legislative session runs through June 16.

Sandusky, whose foundation provides support for child victims, said he’s working to change the statute of limitations law in Pennsylvania as well.

After the Penn State football sex scandal broke, Sandusky initially defended his adoptive dad as the vile accusations piled up.

Daily News front page gives sex abuse victim hope

It wasn’t until Matt heard one of Jerry Sandusky’s victims testifying at trial that he found a voice to speak about his own abuse. He was 33 at the time; today, he’s 37.

“I always thought I was the only one, until I heard others speaking their truth,” he told The News. “It absolutely happens like that all the time.”

Jerry Sandusky, now 71, was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison after his October 2012 conviction for sexually abusing 10 boys across 15 years. Penn State paid out a reported $92 million in settlements to his victims.

From Jan Levin–is Whole Foods harboring a Sex Offender?

From   Jill Soderman and Jan Levin.  As many of you know, my three biggest areas of complaint–that no one apparently wants to touch are corruption and resultant inaction in 1) guardianship; 2) custody where false charges and reports fly all over the place and 3) sexual assault where the crime is seldom reported and authorities refuse to process rape test kits and sex rings and human trafficking flourish.  The sex rings are so notorious, the Vatican has class actions against priests and the Vatican fights them instead of paying what is due victims and taking care of their needs. (See movie–Inside the Vatican and Attacking the Devil, now on netflix)

read on, and thanks so much for doing these investigations, ladies

Nancy Levine

Is Whole Foods co-founder and co-CEO John Mackey an accomplice to child sexual abuse? Mackey released a statement this week, declaring his loyalty to spiritual leader, a former rabbi accused of sexual abuse, Marc Gafni.

Politico reported this week on Vice President Joe Biden’s speech at the United State of Women Summit in Washington, D.C. He “insisted that men who stay quiet about rape culture and sexual assaults are accomplices.”

I previously blogged about the importance Mackey speaking up about his relationship with Gafni, as reported by The New York Times in December. I am an activist, working to change the culture of silence surrounding sexual violence. I have been writing about this matter since I read Mark Oppenheimer’s expose in The Times, detailing Gafni’s background and his association with Mackey:

“A co-founder of Whole Foods, John Mackey, a proponent of conscious capitalism, calls Mr. Gafni ‘a bold visionary.’ He is a chairman of the executive board of Mr. Gafni’s center, and he hosts board meetings at his Texas ranch.”

“Mr. Gafni was quoted saying they had been in love. He added, ‘She was 14 going on 35, and I never forced her.'”

Mackey is also a co-founder and board member of Conscious Capitalism, Inc., a nonprofit corporation supporting ethical business practices. On June 9, I sent the email below to speakers at the upcoming Conscious Capitalism CEO SummitBrené Brown, founder and CEO of COURAGEworks, and to media contacts for Denise Morrison, President and CEO of Campbell Soup Company, and Jostein Solheim, CEO of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade:

“I am a writer and [volunteer] publicist working with nonprofits SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, featured in the movie Spotlight), and Peaceful Hearts Foundation, founded by Matthew Sandusky, adopted son of former Penn State football coach and convicted sex offender Jerry Sandusky.

I see Ben & Jerry’s Homemade CEO Jostein Solheim is scheduled to be a speaker at the Tenth Annual Conscious Capitalism CEO Summit, October 18-20.

As you may know, Whole Foods co-CEO John Mackey is a founding board member of Conscious Capitalism.

Is Mr. Solheim aware of Mr. Mackey’s relationship with accused sex offender, former rabbi Marc Gafni, as reported by The New York Times and The Washington Post?

The New York Times, 12/25/15:

‘A Spiritual Leader Gains Stature, Trailed by a Troubled Past’

The Washington Post, 5/25/16:

‘Protesters’ problem with new Whole Foods concept: An ex-rabbi’s alleged sex scandal’

‘The protesters are targeting Whole Foods CEO John Mackey’s links to Marc Gafni, a former rabbi who allegedly had sex with a number of his followers, including two teenage girls, as the New York Times reported last year.’

Would Mr. Solheim like to make a statement about the matter above?”

I received this email from Julie van Amerongan, Director of Programs and Events of Conscious Capitalism, Inc.:

“By way of introduction, I’m Julie van Amerongen, longtime director at Conscious Capitalism, Inc. and producer of our annual conferences.

I am aware of your efforts to raise awareness about issues with Marc Gafni and again want to reiterate to you that Conscious Capitalism has no professional association with Marc.  As longtime producer of our events I can assure you that Marc has neither spoken at nor attended any of our events.  As you know, our organization does not condone or support or ignore issues of sexual assault, harassment or abuse and are unequivocal that it is absolutely unacceptable.  We have created and support a culture of love and care here – words not often used in business environments, but words I don’t hesitate to use here.

As you also know, John Mackey is the co-founder of our organization and sits on the board.  I have known John for many years and he has spoken numerous times at the events I have produced and has always been a strong proponent of elevating the role of women in the workplace.  I want to make sure you have seen the statement he has released which also makes clear his alignment with our organization’s stated values:

‘I want to make it crystal clear that I do not condone sexual assault, harassment, or abuse in any form.  I have known Marc Gafni for several years, and he has continued to tell me that he is innocent of the allegations being made about him.  Loyalty and the presumption of innocence are important values to me, so I will not join those who are condemning him.  At the same time, I understand the devastating effects of abuse, and my heart goes out to any and all victims of sexual abuse everywhere.  I am, at once, presuming Marc’s innocence and firmly standing against what he’s accused of.’

I understand that you like and even admire the work of Conscious Capitalism. Yet when I see and hear about your outreach to our event speakers, sponsors and attendees I have to ask what your intentions are here.  My staff and I feel like we are innocent bystanders in the crossfire of your attack against Marc.  We don’t support Marc, we’ve done nothing wrong, our work is noble and we work so hard, yet day after day we have another mess to clean up because you are choosing to attack us and our amazing community to get to Marc.  In my mind there has just got to be another way.

Since John has stepped off Marc’s board and has released a statement against sexual abuse–cutting whatever imagined ties there were between Conscious Capitalism and Marc, I’d respectfully request that you look for an alternative avenue for your crusade against Marc so that our team can continue our focus on elevating humanity through business.”

I responded to van Amerongan:

“Thank you, Julie, I do appreciate your note. I had not previously seen John’s statement. Do you know where his statement was released prior to your emailing it to me?

My motivation is this: I’m working as a volunteer with nonprofit advocacy groups SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, featured in the movieSpotlight), Peaceful Hearts Foundation, founded by Matthew Sandusky, son of Jerry Sandusky, and NAASCA (National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse).

The leaders of these groups are unequivocal about the importance of breaking the culture of silence that underlies all sexual violence. John’s silence was hurtful to all survivors of child sexual abuse, and served to reinforce the culture of silence underlying child sexual abuse.

I’m all for elevating humanity through conscious business practices and awareness. My point has been that in order to elevate humanity we must elevate for all — and break the culture of silence surrounding sexual abuse. Otherwise, we are only selectively conscious.”

As to the provenance of Mackey’s statement, van Amerongan emailed:

“I’m not sure where the statement was released. I’m not privy to Whole Foods press releases. John shared this with me last month and said it could be shared with others.”

I have emailed Whole Foods’ executive spokesperson Robin Rehfield Kelley to inquire about the release of Mackey’s statement. Previously, Rehfield Kelley had emailed, when asked if Mackey wanted to make a statement in advance of the protests at Whole Foods in New York and at the company’s 365 store launch in Los Angeles:

“John no longer serves on Mr. Gafni’s  board and has no connection to the Center for Integral Wisdom. That being said, there’s nothing else to say on this matter.” Leaders of advocacy organizations and protesters objected to Mackey’s and Whole Foods’ silence.

I will update this blog if/when Rehfield Kelley or a spokesperson from Whole Foods replies. The Forward has subsequently reported on the release of Mackey’s statement.

As for Mackey’s statement regarding Gafni’s “presumption of innocence,” I haveblogged about embattled legislation, the Child Victims Act in New York State and related media coverage. Gafni’s accusers are prevented from pursuing legal action because of statute of limitations restrictions. The proposed legislation would extend or eliminate statutes of limitations for child sexual abuse.

One of Gafni’s accusers, Sara Kabakov is working to help champion the proposed legislation. After The Times story was published in December, Kabakov came forward publicly for the first time in an opinion piece in the Forward: “I Was 13 When Marc Gafni’s Abuse Began.”

As for the “imagined ties” between Conscious Capitalism and Gafni, The Washington Post reported, “He [Mackey] quotes Gafni liberally in his 2013 book ‘Conscious Capitalism,’ and appeared with Gafni in videos discussing the book that, until recently,appeared on Whole Foods’ website.”

Forbes Magazine published an interview with Mackey and Gafni about their books, Mackey’s Conscious Capitalism and Gafni’s Your Unique Self, saying, “the authors have been in dialogue for years now about interesting crossovers in their thinking.”

At last summer’s FreedomFest, the annual libertarian-themed conference in Las Vegas (where Donald Trump headlined), Mackey and Gafni joined forces as a debate team. Later in the program, Gafni presented solo, “The Erotic and the Ethical: Next Steps in Libertarian Awakening.” Forbes separately reported, “Among FreedomFest’s biggest supporters, regular attendees, keynote speakers and panelists are Forbes chairman Steve Forbes and Whole Foods Market (Nasdaq: WFM) co-CEO John Mackey.”

Another CEO of a public company who was in contact with Mackey messaged me about his allegiance to Gafni: “it’s more of his libertarian ideology as I understand.” Mother Jones published a scathing review of Mackey’s book Conscious Capitalism: “Libertarian Propaganda with Your Organic Arugula?”

As for Gafni having “neither spoken at nor attended any” Conscious Capitalism events, from the conference summary for the 2nd Invitational Conclave on Conscious Business, presented by the Esalen Institute and Conscious Capitalism Institute in 2012: “On Monday morning, the Director of the Center for World Spirituality, Marc Gafni, launched the week’s conversations…”

As for my creating “another mess to clean up because [I am] choosing to attack” Conscious Capitalism, I would posit that I am neither attacking nor creating a mess. Rather, I am shining a spotlight on the “Whole Mess at Whole Foods,” as reported byNonprofit Quarterly: “Just like the hypocrisy of Bill Cosby’s moralizing about black respectability and Jared Fogle’s trying to help childhood obesity, Marc Gafni’s views and new age spirituality look very much like an attempt to overshadow the pain he has caused by letting the world know what a ‘profoundly good person he is.’ John Mackey is compounding this hypocrisy and bringing Whole Foods with him.”

So is Mackey an accomplice?

Myka Held, staff attorney with SurvJustice, previously emailed this comment for a piece I wrote for Epic Times. Her statement is included here, in its entirety:

“Given the dismal rates of prosecution of rapists, and the fact that even rapists who are prosecuted are not always convicted or appropriately punished, we cannot use the wide-spread failure of the criminal justice system as an excuse to let offenders off the hook. Marc Gafni has publicly admitted to having sex with a 13 year old girl while he was an adult. Regardless of his arguments about consent, it is a crime in this country to have sex with a minor and his defenders cannot hide behind the argument that sex was consensual. His attempts to shift blame to his young victim, stating that she was ’14 going on 35′ are despicable and show both his lack of remorse for his crime and his inability to recognize the seriousness of his crime.

For these reasons alone it is important for us as a society to hold him accountable, and part of the mechanisms for doing so require us to demand that his powerful friends end their support. It is comments like Marc Gafni’s, that his victim was ’14 going on 35′, that silence victims in the first place and make them afraid to come forward and report to police. I commend the bravery of the two women who have come forward publicly to warn others about the abuse Marc Gafni perpetuated against them and hope that we as a society can rally around these women rather than allow Marc Gafni to attack his victims, both of whom were not old enough to consent, and by their own words, did not consent to sexual relations with Marc Gafni.”

In response to Mackey’s statement, New York Rabbi David Ingber, who has spearheaded the criticism of Gafni and his supporters, posted this on his Facebook page:

“Shame on you John Mackey. Shame on you for your ‘loyalty’ and for your abhorrent callousness towards real victims, real women, real abuse, real stories that are not only from some mythic past but are still happening, right here and right now. Shame on you Mackey for trusting a sociopath instead of reaching out to those whom he has abused. Shame on you for calling your complicity with sexual exploitation anything [other] than what it is….accomplice to a very disturbed and sick man.”

What about accountability? Cary Krosinsky, lecturer at Yale University previously emailed for my Epic Times piece, “I think in a case like this, it should be the obligation of all investors to hold the companies they own to a minimum standard behavior.”

The largest individual investors in Whole Foods Market are members of the board of directors, including Mackey. Kip Tindell, Chairman and CEO of The Container Store sits on the boards of both Whole Foods Market and Conscious Capitalism, Inc.Business Ethics magazine reported: “If WFM’s board accepts that there is a firewall protecting the company from adverse attention in Mackey’s relationship with Gafni, as well as that the relationship is ‘in the company’s best interests,’ they shoulder accountability to stakeholders if they are wrong.”

Whole Foods has posted this statement about Marc Gafni on their website: “John is no longer on the board of directors of the Center for Integral Wisdom and we’ve made that position very clear. John Mackey chose not to renew his role on the Board of Directors of the Center for Integral Wisdom. This decision was personal and independent of Whole Foods Market.” The statement serves to indemnify the company and protect its material assets. But in remaining silent on Gafni, is Whole Foods Market ethically bankrupt?

As 18th century Irish statesman Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” And as 20th century Jewish theologianAbraham Joshua Heschel said, “Indifference to evil is worse than evil itself.”

And another article on the subject from Ms. Soderman relates this
LOS ANGELES, CA, May 3, 2016 (Newswire.com”>Newswire.com) –  National  advocacy organizations for raising awareness of childhood sexual abuse issues are backing a protest at the inaugural opening of Whole Foods 365 store, May 25 in Los Angeles. Planning is underway for a coordinated protest at a Whole Foods store in New York City.
The protests are in response to Whole Foods co-founder and co-CEO John Mackey’s link to spiritual leader and former rabbi Marc Gafni, as reported by The New York Times in December.

John Mackey and the Whole Foods Market Board of Directors have an opportunity to reach millions with an important message. Instead of maintaining the societal norm of silence around these issues, I would like to see them take a stand against child sexual abuse publicly — to take a leadership role in getting the message across that we can no longer remain silent.

MATTHEW SANDUSKY, FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, PEACEFUL HEARTS FOUNDATION
Advocacy groups SNAP (Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests),NAASCA (National Association of Adult Survivors of Child Abuse), and Peaceful Hearts Foundation (founded by Matthew Sandusky) are supporting the protests.
On December 25, 2015, The New York Times reported Mackey’s affiliation with Gafni, and the controversy surrounding the former rabbi:
“A co-founder of Whole Foods, John Mackey, a proponent of conscious capitalism, calls Mr. Gafni ‘a bold visionary.’ He is a chairman of the executive board of Mr. Gafni’s center, and he hosts board meetings at his Texas ranch.” And of one of his accusers, “He [Gafni] added, ‘She was 14 going on 35, and I never forced her.'”
More than 100 rabbis authored a petition demanding that Whole Foods sever ties with Gafni.Sara Kabakov came forward publicly for the first time in an opinion piece in the  Forward: “I Was 13 When Marc Gafni’s Abuse Began.” New York Rabbi David Ingber, lead author of the petition, emailed that planning is underway for a coordinated protest at Whole Foods’ Upper West Side location in New York City.
Mackey’s public statement, posted on his Whole Foods blog, says his affiliation with Gafni is “strictly a personal relationship.” His post includes a link to Gafni’s website and their seven-part video dialogue. Since The Times story broke, Mackey has been widely criticized by experts in business, academia, and survivors’ advocacy work.
According to a post on Gafni’s Center for Integral Wisdom site, Mackey’s term as board co-chair ended in March. The Forward reported: “A spokesman for Gafni said that Mackey had also left the board, ‘as all previous board chair members do.’ He added that, ‘There was no break between Mackey and Gafni.'”
A spokesperson for Whole Foods emailed: “John no longer serves on Mr. Gafni’s board and has no connection to the Center for Integral Wisdom. That being said, there’s nothing else to say on this matter.”
But leaders of advocacy organizations have voiced stern disagreement with Whole Foods’ statement, “there’s nothing else to say.”
David Clohessy, Executive Director of SNAP, from their press release (SNAP gained prominence on Oscar® night when actor Mark Ruffalo, director Tom McCarthy and and screenwriter Josh Singer of the Spotlight movie joined a SNAP protest against sexual abuse in the Catholic Church):
“We hope it’s true that CEO Mackey is distancing himself from Gafni. If so, however, we disagree with the public relations staffer who claims ‘there’s nothing else to say on this matter.’ We hope Mackey takes clear, public and effective steps to ameliorate suffering and to contribute to a climate that welcomes and encourages victims of sexual violence to speak up, rather than a climate that depresses and deters them. If you’ve hurt people, distancing yourself from a wrongdoer isn’t enough. You have a moral duty to do more. We hope to see tangible helpful action by Mackey very soon to lessen the harm he has caused by his irresponsible affiliation with and support for an admitted sex offender.”
Bill Murray, Founder and CEO of NAASCA:
“As a community, we need to bring light into the shadows of the taboo issues of child sexual abuse — we must expose institutional enabling to stop the silence and change the culture. John Mackey and the Whole Foods Market Board of Directors have an opportunity here to impress the masses they’d like to reach with the Whole Foods 365 launch. Instead of stepping out of this discussion they should publicly step up to the plate by taking a responsible corporate stand against child sexual abuse as soon as possible.”
Matthew Sandusky, Founder and Executive Director, Peaceful Hearts Foundation:
“Whole Foods’ public statement, ‘there’s nothing else to say on this matter’ could not be more incorrect. John Mackey and the Whole Foods Market Board of Directors have an opportunity to reach millions with an important message. Instead of maintaining the societal norm of silence around these issues, I would like to see them take a stand against child sexual abuse publicly — to take a leadership role in getting the message across that we can no longer remain silent.”
SNAP, NAASCA, and Peaceful Hearts Foundation are independent 501(c)(3) organizations.

Immediate assistance needed from M.D. to protect Chicago woman

Right now I have a disabled person picked up by the police who needs to be guardianized to keep him out of jail.  He has no rap sheet other than arguing with police.  He is however,  delusional and has no grasp on reality due to long term abuse in court and lost everything and has lived on the street.  The businesses don’t like him, so they call the police on him constantly.

He is older and his health is not good.  He can go back to jail without risking death.  He has a heart condition, so a cardiologist, G.P or other internal medicine M.D. would be great.

Please contact me IMMEDIATELY.  A warrant is out for his arrest for some minor false crime of disorderly conduct, etc.

Thanks

From Ken Ditkowsky–Larkin just dips into Public Fund and Pays his private criminal debts

To: Gene <eawrona@ptd.net>
and 50+ others
Subject: Re: Amended email list
Date: Jul 9, 2016 9:25 AM
I trust you understand that the Political Elite rather than admit that something that they did was wrong, — when caught the aforesaid ‘special people turn on their opposition in an affirmative manner.   How dare the great unwashed to be critical of such august personages!    Obviously, there is precedent for the actions of the political elite and the procrustean interpretation elicited by ***** is outdated, myopic, a political conspiracy, and a massive right wing conspiracy.
This elitist pattern is evident in the JoAnne Denison kangaroo prosecution by the IARDC.   JoAnne caught the elite custodians of the legal professions conscience altering the testimony of Judge Stuart so as to protect the Judge from obvious perjury that was picked up and published by Court watchers.   ( For the public to note a sitting judge lying under oath at the encouragement of an attorney employed by the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission would be akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater!)  Forget the fact that normally subordination of perjury and perjury are serious offenses, but, when the case is wired from start to and including the Supreme Court of Illinois proceedings the perspective is changed.    Thus, Larkin and the IARDC can and do get away with serious felonies.  Mentioning these facts is grossly unethical and a violation of Lawyer Rule 8.2 and 8.4 according to the Illinois Supreme Court, Jerome Larkin and the judicial elite.
As the charges brought by the IARDC and Larkin were so absurd – i.e. publishing information as to judicial corruptness is not only unethical but akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater – Thus, Ms. Denison and those who defend the First Amendment embarrassed the IARDC, the Judicial elite, the Supreme Court of Illinois and the silent 2nd oldest profession by publishing their ignorant assertions. It was painful to watch the legal profession grin and bear the insult to their intelligence as the kept silent out of fear of retribution.    Indeed, some of us were laughing at Larkin, the Supreme Court of Illinois and the 18 USCA 371 co-conspirators as they destroyed their credibility and relevancy.   
The beat continued.   Larkin, and his 18 USCA 371 co-conspirators, recognized that their hiring of non-professional court reporters who were not licensed by the State of Illinois were prone to corruption and requests to interpret words and phrases so as to eliminate obstacles like obvious perjury, subordination of perjury and inconvenient admissions.  Thus, such individuals and entities were preferred over court reporters who if they engaged in such practices – even in Illinois – could lose their licenses.   However a problem existed.   The statute prohibited payment for services of the unlicensed court reporters.     Larkin, the IARDC and the Illinois Supreme Court are like Hillary Clinton above the law.    Ergo, Larkin just dipped into public funds and paid the bills.
Illinois is on the verge of bankruptcy, so real audits might occur (doubtful but now a possibility)and the defalcation by Larkin and this co-conspirators might be noticed.   Thus to give the theft of public funds the appearance of legitimacy and to intimidate Attorney Denison, Larkin by one of his lackeys sought to charge the wrongful payments by the IARDC (and Larkin) as costs to Denison.    Naturally, if Denison knew of the action she might object, so as Attorney Ethics are an excuse **** Larkin just ignored the notice requirements and appeared ex-parte before the Supreme Court.   The award of costs was made and bingo Denison owed another $18,000 to the criminal enterprise known as the Illinois attorney registration and disciplinary Commission (IARDC).
Denison objected when she found out about the travesty and the ethically challenged conduct of the Attorney Disciplinary Comuty; however, we are in Illinois and Honor, Integrity, Honesty, and decency are all difficult and foreign words to the Elite Political and Judicial officials.   (Hillary Clinton was raised in Park Ridge, Illinois).
Larkin was proud of his gambit and therefore admitted it!   The Supreme Court was so used to rubber stamping anything that Larkin wanted it rubber-stamped Larkin’s actions; however, right now there is a mini revolution going on.   Brexit was approved in Britain.   The FBI did not totally sweep the inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s ‘gross carelessness’ with America’s secrets under the rug and some Republicans were actually upset that Hillary Clinton lied to a congressional committee not once but a number of times.   Thus, the Supreme Court did a bit of ledger-domain.   We are watching the maneuvering to divert attention, be totally deceitful and not appear disingenuous.
It would be nice to see the Supreme Court of Illinois honor the RULE OF LAW, The Illinois Constitution, the US Constitution and its sworn duty; however, we are in Illinois and Honor, Integrity, Honesty, and decency are all difficult and foreign words to the Elite Political and Judicial officials.   (Hillary Clinton was raised in Park Ridge, Illinois).

From Joanne;

And it is interesting to note that it has now been since May 24, 2016 a demand has been made on this blog to Jerome Larkin to correct the situation, a grievance was filed against all the attorneys involved by fax on June 8, 2016 (Larkin, Opryszek, Smart, Sang Yul Lee and Ziab Alnaqib) and not a peep has been heard from the five of them. I wonder if Steven Splitt is also involved, as an “ethics” professor at John Marshall, I think he needs to give that one up and turn himself in, primarily because it was during his “Review Board” hearing that my court reporter was not able to set up.  He was the ARDC lawyer there, why was she not able to set up?  I now have her affidavit.

Of course, there needs to be an investigation, but it seems like the ARDC is fighting the fact their cover ups and misuse of public funds has now been brought to light.

I have not seen an apology from the six of them–Larkin, Opryszek, Smart, Sang Yul Lee and Alnaqib–to set the record straight and turn themelves in for flagrant breaches of ethics.

Just brought to my attention is the following:

18 U.S. Code § 2071 – Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally

Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.
Seems to me this statute is clear.  Larkin is running a courtroom in the US, the others are players in the courtroom.  They hold an office with a title on behalf of the public. There is no reason this statute should not apply to them, and Larkin and company should retire immediately, sans pensions.
As you all are aware, as of June 29, 2016, the ARDC, Larkin and Opryszek were still trying to blame me and pretend that Illinois laws do not exist for the ARDC.  They claim that by filing the Record on Appeal and certifying it and my not objecting thereto somehow wipes out their crimes.
My actions or inactions clearly do not do that.  I cannot waive my magic wand and wipe out their crimes.
Next, they cite Utah law.  However, Utah law on court reporters is interesting, but irrelevant–as Ken Ditkowsky says.
Larkin and company simply need to resign and turn themselves in.  There is no other way out of this.
Their behavior during my trial was utterly contemptable.  They struck my discovery, my attorney, my expert witnesses, allowed one witness to lie and would not turn over the audio, they claimed this blog lied when it clearly did not and by prosecuting myself instead of Stuart, Schmeidel, Farenga and Stern–Mary Sykes was murdered and narcotized to death on May 23, 2015.  An ARDC crime that will live in infamy with the like of other seniors subject to murder or attempted murder by the ARDC failing to investigate–Baker, Frake, Wyman, Tyler, Gore, Rector, etc.  How many seniors have to lose everything, including the comfort of seeing all their children and grandchildren before the ARDC will start Guardianship investigations and actually DO SOMETHING about the evil cottage industry deemed “probate.”
That’s the only question I want to know the answer to.
JoAnne

Cheat the US govt and pay double the penalities

http://www.nationallawjournal.com/id=1202762098089/Cheat-the-Government-Soon-Pay-Double-Penalties?back=DC&kw=Cheat%20the%20Government%2C%20Soon%20Pay%20Double%20Penalties&cn=20160708&pt=Legal%20Times%20Afternoon%20Update&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=National%20Law%20Journal&slreturn=20160608155000

 

Health care providers, drug and medical-device manufacturers and others doing business with the federal government face a doubling of penalties on Aug. 1 if they violate the False Claims Act—the government’s chief and most lucrative fraud-fighting tool.

The U.S. Department of Justice, in a July 1 interim final rule, increased the law’s minimum penalty from $5,500 to $10,781 per claim, and the maximum from $11,000 to $21,563 per claim, plus the act’s trebling of actual damages.

“These types of penalties easily can add up, particularly in the health care context where you may have lots of claims but the actual damages may be small,” said Matthew Turetzky of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. Turetzky predicted “plenty of cases where you will see substantial penalties.”

Turetzky, who practices government contracts, investigations and international trade, gave as an example a hospital that falsely certifies that it is giving the best possible price on a drug. The price certified is $2 but the going price is $1.98.

“If you take those 2 cents per treatment and they sold 10,000, actual damages are $200, and even if trebled under the act, you get to $600,” he said. “But if you’re talking about 10,000 claims at $10,000 per claim, now you’re into the millions of dollars even though the government was cheated of $600.”

The Justice Department issued its interim rule as its “catch-up adjustment” under the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015. The act requires federal agencies to adjust the level of civil monetary penalties with an initial “catch-up” adjustment through an interim final rulemaking, and to make subsequent annual adjustments for inflation. Adjustments previously were made every four years.

The act defines a civil monetary penalty as any monetary assessment levied for a violation of a federal civil statute or regulation, assessed or enforceable through a civil action in federal court or an administrative proceeding.

Although the department’s rule is effective Aug. 1, it is taking public comments until Aug. 29.

Turetzky expects the department to be “inundated” with industry comments. Agencies regularly acknowledge comments in a final rule and have some response to them. “So even if the rule doesn’t change, folks will see the agency’s rationale for why it’s doing what it has done,” he said.

From John Porter–Have we Lost our Spirit of Liberty?

From: John Porter <johnporter1939@cox.net>
To: Gene <eawrona@ptd.net>;  and 30 others
Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2016 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: The Elections:

I received an email from one of my friends in freedom this morning stating she couldn’t decide what to do concerning this presidential election. I here share my reply to her, for your consideration also.

I would like to ask you, if you would please, just sit with me some where in a quiet place, erase any political party agenda completely from our thoughts, think and speak honestly and truthfully about something for a few moments only as free American people, namely the Spirit of Liberty, the sacred tie that binds us together.

  What is spirit? Webster’s Dictionary : breath, courage, vigor, the soul, life; the thinking, motivating, feeling part of man, often as distinguished from the body.

What is Liberty? Webster’s Dictionary: Freedom from any form of arbitrary control; the sum of rights and exemptions possessed in common by the people of a community or state; exemption from compulsion.

The Spirit of Liberty has to be in the hearts and minds of the people. Individual Liberty will only be preserved as long as there is devotion to freedom, expressed in the hearts and actions of the people. Our desire for Individual Liberty must be stronger than those who desire to turn us into their subjects under the arbitrary control of government.

This American experiment in people being individually free and governing themselves is unique in all the history of man, because it places Individual Liberty above all other forms of government.
In 1775 Alexander Hamilton said, “The sacred rights of mankind are not to be looked for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself, and can never be erased.” It has been said, “History moves toward freedom because the desire for freedom is written in every human heart.” I ask you, why on earth are we allowing our Liberty to be taken from us? Have we let our hearts grow void of the desire to remain free and just willingly give up our God-given right to think and act for ourselves without government dictating to us how we should live our lives? Have we lost our Spirit of Liberty?

The current state of corruption, the lies, deception and incompetence in our government, the seemingly uncaring, uninterested, too busy attitude of a great many people does not bode well for our future as a free Republic. However, as someone has said, “We can look back on the past 240 years with the utmost pride and amazement at what this unlikely nation has achieved; and this was due to nothing but the fertile ground of the Spirit of Liberty within the people”.

The Constitution of a government, as vital as it is when followed, will never be a substitute for staving off oppression as will the Constitution (spirit) of the people. If we are to keep our liberty, it must come from, not a bias media, not from political party bosses, but the people’s Spirit of Liberty. It is who or what we choose, not their choice for us.

Now let’s think current politics for a brief moment. Let us together resolve to rekindle that spirit before it is to late to have an effect. As and example, (one pol) is saying, let’s “Make America Great Again.” He is talking to you and me, not those others I just mentioned. They don’t like him. It will be up to us. It’s you and I,  choosing for ourselves, standing against them and their choosing for us.

My fellow Friends in Freedom, all it may apply to, I hope what I have written here will help you decide what to do. You see, (another pol) does not believe in what you just read. S/he (another pol) studied under ********* and did her post graduate thesis on how great his teachings were. If s/he becomes president, ******** issuing executive orders, compared to him/er, will look like a baby. Make no mistake, s/he will place people on the Supreme Court who also think like him/er and *****. I pray to Almighty God that you will think about how potentially destructive this election could be to the future of our Liberty, our freedom from government control of our lives if s/he is allowed to hold power over us.
Consider the very tall lady standing on Ellis Island in New York harbor holding a torch of light high above her head. We call her, THE STATUE OF LIBERTY.

John Porter

118 Approach Drive
Harrison, Arkansas
870-741-4119

And for those of you that do not know the full and wonderful poem by Emma Lazarus, here it is:

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she

With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Emma Lazarus, c. 1883

From Ken Ditkowsky–how the ARDC persecutes the honest and covers up for the elite

And the citizens lose in the end.

We have seen Kangaroo trials at the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary commission, and the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.    The miscreants are so proud of their accomplishment of elder cleansing so many here in Illinois that they even brag about it, and nothing upsets the great unwashed.     
 
In case you have forgotten, in the Alice Gore case the miscreants went so far as to investigate her mouth, and when they discovered that there was gold in her filings, they took out 29 teeth to salvage a few grains of the gold metal.     In the Mary Sykes case they not ignored all the protections provided for the Guardianship Act,, Illinois Constitution (Article 1), statutes, the bill of rights etc and robbed the estate of 3 million dollars before disposing of their victim.   It is all to be read in case 09 P 4585 including the amazing deception in the service of process.   Indeed so proud of their handiwork the presiding Judge on page 91 of her evidence deposition actually admitted to being ‘wired’   (induced by unknown considerations to come up the desired result regardless of the facts, the law, or the evidence).    THIS IS ILLINOIS MENTAL HEALTH PROTECTION AND ENFORCEMENT.
 
When ordinary citizens attempted to expose these heinous crimes harassment and intimidation were the name of the game.    I’ve laid out the harassment previously so I will omit it this time, but say instead that the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed Jerome Larkin’s assessment that disclosure of judicial corruption is akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater.    Over a month ago when it is revealed that Larkin engaged with State funds unlicensed court reporters and then embezzled public funds to pay them off for whatever they did illegally, not only did law enforcement do nothing, but the Illinois Supreme Court did nothing, and the media created a loud silence.
 
The double standard of law enforcement has been brought forth to public attention by the government giving Hillary Clinton  a special and illegal dispensation and free pass for not only lying to everyone, but placing the Nation’s security in jeopardy.     It is not really a surprise that Jerome Larkin and his band of 18 USCA 371 co-conspirators are able to get away with assaulting the First Amendment and using government positions to silence critics of the current Holocaust!     
 
While it was apparent from day one that Clinton had the fix in, at the very least Jerome Larkin should pay the Federal and State Income taxes on the booty derived from the elder cleansing scandal.     If he gets away with it, what assurance do you have the YOU may not be the next victim of elder cleansing and is fantastically successful cover-up.    Democracy is not a spectator sport and equal protection of the law is it foundation.    We may not see Equal protection of the Law on the Federal level, but by gum Jerome Larkin and each of his miscreants are expendable and far more dangerous to us personally.    There may be guardianship in your future!!!!.

Absolutely true in the Courts that are racked by corruption; however, where we have honest judges the Rule of Law still applies.    The object has to be to bring back honesty and integrity into the Court system.   
Exactly how we do it is the question!

From Atty Candice Schwager in Texas–excellent discussion of judicial immunity

These are sections from a complaint she wrote regarding general law and theory from her latest complaint which I am not publishing yet, because it has not been served yet. But I will publish as soon as these miscreants in Texas get an earful from Candice and her long suffering Plaintiffs.

 

XI. Affirmative Pleading on Doctrines of Immunity
181. Fraus Omnia Vitiat.
182. There is no judicial immunity to civil liability for non-judicial acts, anti-judicial
acts or RICO Predicate Acts forming a pattern of racketeering activity, as none of these types of conduct can be said to be judicial functions even when disguised as such.
183. Article III, Section I of the Constitution for the United States of America,
specifically creates the U.S. Supreme Court and gives Congress the authority to create the lower federal courts. Congress used this power to establish 13 U.S. Courts of Appeals, 94 U.S. District Courts, the U.S. Court of Claims. and the U.S. Court oflntemational Trade.
184. The U.S. Supreme Court is the only court of general jurisdiction in the federal
system, all other federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction created and empowered by Congressional statute.
185. Chief Justice Marshall. writing for the Court in Cohens. 19 U.S. at 404 observed:
1/ is most true that this Court will not lake jurisdiction if if should not: but it is
equally true, that it must take jurisdiction if it should. The judiciary cannot, as the
legislature may, avoid a measure because it approaches the confines of the
constitution. We cannot pass it by because it is doubtful. With whatever doubts,
with whatever difficulties, a case may be attended, we must decide it, if it be
brought before us. We have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction
which is given, than to usurp that which is not given. The one or the other would
be treason to the constitution. Questions may occur which we would gladly avoid;
but we cannot, “Congress, and not the Judiciary, defines the scope of federal
jurisdiction within the constitutionally permissible bounds. “

186. The list of predicate acts specifically enumerated at 18 U.S.C. §1961(1) includes
§§37 I, 1346 and 195 I each of which requires a public corruption/color oflaw element.
187. To argue that a judge is immune from a public cOiruption statute if acting within
the four walls of a court room and exempt if not acting in his public capacity is a very precise statement that judges are above the law and that the victims of public conuption related deprivations of rights have no remedy and, thus, no rights.
188. 42 U.S.C. §1983 clearly slates an exception to actions brought against judicial
officers. That one exception provides pre-requisites to injunctive relief in actions brought against judicial officers. To conclude that Congress did not intend a private right of claims against judges under § 1983 is to render the language of the statute superfluous, which thc rules governing statutory construction will not allow.
42 Us.c. §1983 Civil Action for Deprivation of Civil Rights (emphasis added)
Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or
usage, of any State or Territory or the District a/Columbia, subjects, or causes 10
be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the
jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities
secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an
action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that
in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in
such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive reliershall not be granted unless a
declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the
purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District
of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.
(R.S. § 1979; Pub. L. 96-170. § 1. Dec. 29. 1979. 93 Stat. 1284; Pub. L. 104- 317.
title Ill, § 309(c). Oct. 19. 1996. llOStat. 3853.)
189. There is no privity defense, no attorney immunity defense and no judicial
immunity exception to the federal Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization statutes. The language of the Act differentiates between criminal and civil liability and explicitly provides private parties with civil remedy for injuries to property and business caused by a pattern of racketeering activity involving two (2) or more of the predicate acts defined at 18 USC § 1961 (1).
The RICO Act provides for criminal penalties in Section 1963 and provides private litigants with civil remedy in section 1964(c).
190. Several predicate act statutes, mostly codified in Title 18 of the United States
Code, provide for federal prosecution of public corruption. Among these are the Hobbs Act (18 USC § 1951), the mail and wire fraud statutes (18 USC §§ 1341 & 1343), the honest services fraud provision (18 USC § 1346), the Travel Act (18 USC § 1952), the federal official bribery and gratuity statute, (18 USC § 201 enacted 1962), the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) (enacted 1977), the federal program bribery statute, 18 USC § 666 (enacted 1984) and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) (18 USC §§1961-1968 enacted in 1970). Each statute directly addresses public corruption and most of these are specifically identified as RICO predicate acts at 18 USC. 1961(1).
191. The recent plea bargain and sentencing of Texas State 404th District Court Judge
Abel Limas to six years in federal prison for violating 18 USC §§ 1343 (Honest Services Wire
Fraud), § 1346 (Honest Services Fraud) and § 1951 and 2 (Hobbs Act Extortion), clearly verifies that these public corruption statutes apply to judges by operation of the RICO statutes 12.

 

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This cancerous judicial black market plague has spread like wildfire throughout
the state court systems whether family law court, juvenile, traffic, probate or any other municipal level judicial arena on the state wide level. They have all become criminal racketeering enterprises and the root cause for each of these obscenities is “impunity” by any other name.

****

195. Imposition of an enlarged version of the judicially created English common law
doctrine of limited Judicial Immunity to foreclose private claims for civil remedy against judges under the RICO and civil rights statutes, has nurtured a contagion of public corruption throughout all three branches of government. is in direct opposition to the clearly expressed intentions of Congress in providing such remedy, is a violation of the separation of powers doctrine and, as the learned Chief Justice Marshall expressed, “treason to the constitution”.
196. Article I Section 8 Clause 3 of the federal Constitution grants exclusive
jurisdiction over interstate and foreign commerce to Congress. Given that all federal crimes are commercial the nexus with interstate commerce is inarguable and the notion that state court judges are absolutely immune from 42 U.S.C. §1983 or 18 U.S.C. §1964(c) actions ignores the very clear language of those sections and violates the supremacy clause.
XII. Aiding and Abetting, Fraud, and the Texas Attorney Immunity Doctrine
197. “Attorney Immunity” is a vague expression. Any civil immunity an attorney has
is strictly limited to the litigation context and does not include actively engaging in an organized criminal color of law enterprise involving RICO predicate act conduct.

198. The RICO Defendant attorneys understood that the conduct of their clients was
tortious and criminal and the lawyers helped the clients with the conduct thinking only to stuff their own pockets, showing no regard for ethics or law.
199. Conduct sufficient to state a claim of a racketeering conspiracy including
predicate acts of extortion § 1951. Obstruction §371, Honest Services § 1346, Impartial Forum §242, Illegal Wiretap §25 11 , Mail Fraud § 1341, Wire Fraud § 1343, Banking Fraud § 1344 and Securities Fraud 15 U.S.C. 78 et seq., is not within the scope oflega.! representation and cannot be excused as part of the attorney’s discharge of his duties to his client, even when masqueraded under the litigation umbrella. (The Litigation Privilege)
200. Acts constituting knowing substantial assistance, sufficient to state a claim for in concert aiding and abetting RlCO predicate act crimes, torts and breaches of fiduciary committed by the client, are sufficient to establish in-concert liability of the attorney. There are no exceptions.
201. In reading the text and legislative history of the RlCO act, the Fifth Circuit has
interpreted that Congress intended the act to strike at criminal conduct characterized by at least two consequential dimensions. The offenses must be of a degree sufficiently serious not only to inflict injury upon its immediate private victims, but also to cause harm to significant public processes or institutions, or otherwise pose threats to larger societal interests worthy of the severe punitive and deterrent purposes embodied in the statute.
202. These aims and structure are somewhat akin to those reflected in the Clayton Act,
15 U.S.C. § 15, after which RICO civil remedies were patterned.
203. Both statutes bring to bear the pressure of “private attorneys general” on a serious
national problem for which public prosecutorial resources are deemed “inadequate”; see also  Sedima, 473 U.S. at 489; Genty v. Resolution Trust Co., 937 F.2d 899, 912 (3d Cir. 1991)
(“Congress obviously had much more in mind than merely providing compensation for
individual RICO victims when it authorized RICO civil actions. Indeed, the harn of racketeering is dispersed among the public at large, including draining resources from the economy. subverting the democratic process and undermining the general welfare. “)
204. This construction accords with the legislative intent of RICO. As explained by the
Supreme Court, the purpose of the Act was to address a problem which Congress perceived “was of national dimensions.” Turkette. 452 U.S. at 586. Specifically, in the Statement of Findings and Purpose of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, Title IX of which encompassed RICO, Congress declared that the activities of organized crime that prompted the legislation “weaken the stability of the Nation’s economic system, harm innocent investors and competing organizations, interfere with free competition, seriously burden interstate and foreign commence, threaten the domestic security, and undermine the general welfare of the Nation and its citizens.”
Statement of Findings and Purpose, Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, Pub. L. No. 91-452, 84 Stat. 922, 923 (1970).
205. Congress did not distinguish between public and private Organized Crime. Public
corruption and criminal abuse of the state judicial office has become the number one threat to the security of the people of this nation. The creation of the RICO act as exemplified by the “Statement of Findings and Purpose” and the inclusion of public corruption requisite statutes among the list of predicate acts at 18 U.S.c. § 1961 (I) clearly indicates a congressional intention to curb public corruption and abuse of the doctrines of immunity, by a dishonest self-protection criminal racketeering industry.

206. The protection for criminal conduct in Texas has also been expanded to include
wrongful conduct by attorneys under the Texas Attorney Immunity Doctrine, which has also led to the corruption and criminal takeover of our state judicial institutions.
207. Congress never intended to immunize state-court judges from federal civil rights
suits nor from federal Racketeering suits and a doctrine of judicial immunity implemented by the judiciary to protect a corrupt judiciary from legislation designed to protect the public interest from corruption violates the Separation of Powers Doctrine and undermines the public’s confidence in the legitimacy of the government of this Nation.
XIII. Affirmative Pleading on Conspiracy and Statutes of Limitations
208. Before the Court are allegations of public corruption involving a conspiracy to
deprive the People of Texas and others of the honest services of elected public officers. The
conduct complained of is only a small part of a complex multi-layered, multi-faceted criminal industry run by state court judges. who act with impunity with the full collusion, cooperation and participation of attorneys, court appointed administrators, social workers and others.
209. Federal conspiracy laws rest on the belief that criminal schemes are equally, or
even more reprehensible than are the substantive offenses to which they are devoted. The Supreme Court has explained that a “collective criminal agreement-(a] partnership in crime presents a greater potential threat to the public than individual verdicts. Concerted action both increases the likelihood that the criminal object will be successfully attained and decreases the probability that the individuals involved will depart from their path of criminality.’ Moreover, observed the Court. “[g]roup association for criminal purposes often, if not normally, makes possible the attainment of ends more complex than those which one criminal could accomplish. Nor is the danger of a conspiratorial group limited to the particular end toward which it has embarked.” Finally, “[combination in crime makes more likely the commission of crimes unrelated to the original purpose for which the group was formed.” In sum, “the danger which a conspiracy generates is not confined to the substantive offense which is the immediate aim of the enterprise.”
210. Conspiracies and acts in furtherance are considered a single continuing act for
limitations purposes. The equitable doctrines of tailing and estopple apply to these claims.
XIV. Affirmative Pleading on Public Corruption
211. Public corruption involves a breach of public trust and/or abuse of position by
federal, state, or local officials and their private sector accomplices. By broad definition. a
government officia1~ whether elected, appointed or hired, may violate federal law when he/she asks, demands, solicits, accepts, or agrees to receive anything of value in return for being influenced in the performance of their official duties.
212. Public corruption poses a fundamental threat to our national security and way of
life. It impacts everything from how well our borders are secured and our neighborhoods
protected … to verdicts handed down in courts … to the quality of our roads, schools, and other government services. And it takes a significant toll on our pocketbooks, wasting billions in tax dollars every year. 14

EXCELLENT JOB, CANDICE!

From Debbie Fox–courtroom corruption in the US and guardianship abuse

Highly recommended video on courtroom corruption in Ohio where man is threatened by bailiff with hand on holster he will be shot for merely taking notes and and asking questions. The courtroom he is directed to attend on $500 for a simple traffic ticket turns out to have no magistrate and everyone is told to “pay up” or the judge will be worse than simply paying some tied in crony lawyer in a non courtroom that day.  Of course, all of this is highly illegal, but the state lets it go on unchecked.

Next, is the truth about guardianship cases in Michigan. Thanks so much Debbie. These videos are great.

Jerome Larkin, Sharon Opryszek, Melissa Smart, Zanib Alnaqib and Sang Yul Lee must immediately return $18,554 to State Coffers

FAX TRANSMITTAL SHEET
To: ARDC
Attn: Jerome Larkin, Sharon Opryszek, Melissa Smart, Sang Yul Lee, Zanib Alnqqib
Fax No. 312-565-2320 From: Joanne Denison
Justice 4 Every1, NFP
5940 W Touhy Ave, #120
Niles, Illinois 60714
phone 312 553 1300 fax 312-553-1307
Now–wrongfully suspended for 3 years in Illinois for asking for a complete, honest and thorough investigation of abusive guardianship cases in Cook County Illinois from the Illinois ARDC.

July 6, 2016

Re: Repayment of funds held in trust by the ARDC to protect the citizens of Illinois from unscrupulous lawyers

Dear Counsel;

On or about May 24, 2016 I filed pleadings with the Illinois Supreme Court that indicated that the court reporter and the corporations asserting your judgment against me for $18,554 was false and fraudulent. The corporations did not exist or were on inactive or expired status. You received a copy of the pleading contemporaneously and it was published on my blog.

Last week I received a pleading objecting to my Supplement to My Motion to Vacate that Judgment in which 1) you admit no wrong doing 2) you blame me for your hiring unlicensed court reporters; 3) you ask that a false and fraudulent judgement for $18,554 be enforced. You then do not acknowledge that Illinois law is clear 1) that an unlicensed court reporter is forbidden to take transcriptions in any court proceeding and 2) judgments rendered from said proceedings are void and of no effect and should not have been rendered in the first place. Your citations of Utah law and filing the Record on Appeal as some sort of bizarre approval of fraud are interesting, but wholly irrelevant. Your actions constitute Fraud on the Court and result in your personal liability under the Ciavarella case, 3rd circuit, 2013 (see Kids for Cash case) No. 11-3277.

Your lack of inaction in numerous probate cases and refusing to open up fair, honest and complete investigations of the following individuals has resulted in their death and/or pain and agony for years, which no senior citizen should ever have to suffer at the hands of Illinois lawyers; Mary G Sykes, isolated, drugged and alone, died May 23, 2015 without investigation, Alice Gore, Rose Drabik, Dorothy Baker, Carol Wyman (attempted murder), Robert Jaycox, Lydia Tyler, Alice Gore, Helen Rector, Ms. LV (attempted murder, still at risk), Delores Bedin (attempted murder and conspiracy to commit same), Alan Frake, drugged and in paid, no investigation.

I am herewith demanding that you all arrange to pay back $18,554 to the ARDC trust fund and inform the Illinois Supreme Court that you have paid this amount because the proceedings and the judgment in conjunction therewith were wrongful and illegal. You are all jointly and severally liable.

You are also demanded to inform the Illinois Supreme Court that you are complying with Illinois law and you will immediately reinstate my license based upon the above compliance with Illinois Law.

If you do not comply, I intend to inform the taxing authorities of your criminal gains. I also intend to file a Qui Tam, if possible, in the appropriate jurisdiction.
Sincerely,
JoAnne M Denison

cc: FBI, states attorney and http://www.marygsykes.com

From the office of the US DOJ, Office of Inspector General

June 23, 2016
JoAnne Dennison
5940 W. Touhy Avenue, #120
Niles, OH 60714
Dear Ms. Denni!lol1~ ..
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of the Inspector General
Investigations Division
142S New York Avenue MY,: Suile 7100
Washington. D.C. 20530
The purpose of this Jetter is to acknowledge receipt of your correspondence. The matters
that you raised have been reviewed by the staff of the Investigations Division, Office of
the Inspector General.
The primary investigative responsibilities of this office are:
• Allegations of misconduct committed by U.S. Department of Justice employees and
contractors; and
• Waste and abuse by high ranking Department officials, or that affects major
programs and operations.
This Office does not have jurisdiction in the matter you described. Therefore, your
complaint has been forwarded to the following office:
Administrative Office for the United States Courts
1 Columbus Circle Northeast
Washington, DC 20002
Any further correspondence regarding this matter should be directed to that office.
I hope this answers any questions you have relative to this matter.
Sincerely,
Office of the Inspector General
Investigations Division

The email I found on the website to write to is:

 

AOdb_Internal_Control_and_Audit@ao.uscourts.gov

Most of our problems, as you know are with the State Courts and not with the Federal Courts, but as we exhaust our state court remedies, this email may become more important.

For certain, the theft of assets in probate and embezzlement, use of expensive chemical restraints going unchecked is all fraud on the courts and fraud on Medicare/Medicaid. It seems there is a conflict between state court proceedings where crimes are committed, and Medicare/Medicaid and the federal government.

 

I’m not even sure which communication they are referring to, but it certainly won’t hurt to add this email to our arsenal of places to write.

JoAnne

 

Good Christian woman who lost everything in probate in need of storage

A good Christian woman lost everything in probate, her home, her bank account and her paid up car, is now in a horrible place without sufficient food and clothes and needs some money for urgent necessary living expenses.

She is asking for $70 per month to help her out, if you can do so, that would be very nice, please let me know.

You can donate by paypal, credit card at paypal to joanne@denisonlaw.com, or text a check to 773-255-7608 or fax one to 312-553-1307.  This is one person I hope to help when I get to Washington and demand that all the money taken by probate attorneys, the OPG and court room vendors be returned to the victim and they be assigned an Elder Assistant volunteer that just helps the elderly pay bills and make decisions.

Any amount would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

Please mark your donation “Christian woman”

Book by Louella Thomas on the Human Trafficking of her Granddaughters

An American Nightmare: The Story of the Scary Mommy and the Sex Offender

by Louella Thomas

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Trying to encapsulate this true story is so hard to do. Three little girls, who were left alone in this world, with no one to help them. Ignored by their mother, their mother’s family, the father’s family not listened to….no one cared. These are my beautiful little granddaughters, Layla, Emily and Annie. My son Mick’s beautiful little girls, that we love to death, and haven’t seen for almost three years. These little girls were trafficked from Illinois, to Florida, Hawaii, Oklahoma, Brazil…..all the while against a court order. I found this information. Why couldn’t the police and the FBI find it? Why didn’t they care? And if I was able to find it on my facebook, why didn’t they find it? Because they didn’t care. Because the insertion of the police who participated seemed to have a reason to make sure that Monster never paid for his grave disgusting actions. Monster’s Uncle Ernie who is a cop, placed himself smack dab in the middle of this case, and lied and conspired to help the mother move the children to Monster. Everyone always made a clear path for Monster. And Devil Mother was always there to make sure that no one stopped him from raping her children. These little girls happen to be my granddaughters that I love. I have to hear their pain, their cries, they show me their little bodies, turned inside out, swollen, broken, horribly distended, like a monkey’s bottom. It’s something I wish I’d never seen, and something that tells me quite graphically that these little girls are being raped, sodomized, tortured. The girls begged and pleaded and screamed for help. Whenever they were with us, they would ask us why no one helped, ask our friends, and no help came. We sought help, but every time we met a brick wall. We have been harassed, threatened, knocked down, lied about….and its been horrific to bear. But the real hell has been upon three beautiful little girls, whose mother and mother’s family, have conspired to have them live with a sex offender. They have lied and conspired to place three beautiful innocent little girls with a sex offender. My mind cannot ever take it in. I love these little girls. I haven’t seen them in over two years. My heart aches every day for them. Their father is living in hell knowing what is happening to them. We all miss them more than we could ever explain. We are miserable on a daily basis, but try to endure and last until the day we know that God will allow us to see them again. I pray that in reading this book, you will realize what has transpired right here in America. Little children being trafficked and raped, by a sex offender, against a court order. No one listening. No one caring. No one helping. It’s a tragedy. And not one that little girls should ever have to endure. This is 2013. This is America. Little children should be safe from a Monster and a Devil Mother. No child should have to endure this hell. Ever. Shame on all of us that this is happening in America. If there is a God, and I believe there is, I am praying daily for this hell to stop, and I pray that as you read this book, you become as enraged, saddened, and horrified I am that this is happening, and please God, let it end.

From Ken Ditkowsky –the Outrageous actions of Jerome Larkin, Administrator of the Illinois ARDC

To: Cook County States Attorney <statesattorney@cookcountyil.gov>,
Subject: Fw: Guardianship fraud cases Illinois & California – no different than WA State
Date: Jul 1, 2016 3:55 PM
As this outrage on the part of Jerome Larkin is so obscene and so obnoxious to democratic government I want everyone to be aware of the lack of concern for the Rule of Law that is being exhibited by the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary commission at this point in time.    
The posturing and subterfuge that are so evident in investigations concerning ******** are then things that stand out in infamy and history.   However, they do not exist in a vacuum.
 
Here in Illinois the Administrator of the IARDC inadvertently, due to his absolute arrogance, got caught dipping into public funds to pay unlicensed Court reporters who: 1) he should not have engaged in the first place; and, 2) who by statute could not be paid.    This ‘theft’ by a public official is a serious matter.  It is even more serious as one of his co-conspirators 18 USCA 371 admitted in an affidavit that the court reporters were not licensed.    
 
The perfidy does not stop at that point in time.  Knowing that the payments to the unlicensed court reporters were illegal and a breach of the public trust, Larkin and his co-conspirator filed a secret petition before the Supreme court of Illinois seeking to assess the knowingly wrongful payments as costs against JoAnne Denison.   As Larkin teaches ethics to lawyers this perversion of his public trust and office is absolutely reprehensible and he should surrender his law license instanter.   Such misconduct goes beyond any conception of decency or honor.
 
However, following the model of many politicians it has been reported to me that instead of coming forth and admitting the wrongdoing and offering to make immediate restitution, Larkin and his co-conspirator do not have the decency to making restitution, admitting error, and trying to make the wrongdoing right.    Instead, it has been reported that a giant subterfuge has been erected.   Ignoring the fact that it is an admitted fact that the court reporter is unlicensed, Larkin tried to divert attention claiming a Court reporter innocent minor mistake and defacto qualifications.   
 
Larkin is well aware that the statute was enacted to protect the public and it set forth one criteria – the act of obtaining a license.   Whether in a perfect world the Court reporter could be licensed or not is irrelevant!   THE ADMITTED FACT IS THAT THE COURT REPORTER WAS NOT LICENSED.
 
On another tack Larkin is reported to have suggested that Courts have accepted reports of proceedings of unlicensed court reporters.   Indeed, lay affidavits as to testimony heard by a Court have been accepted by courts.   This is another subtrifudge.    THE Admitted fact is that the Court reporter was not licensed.  This admitted fact is not mitigated or changed no matter is the unlicensed Court reporter can recite the entire Constitution of 1950 verbatium.   
The Statute if very clear – NO LICENSE – NO COMPENSATION.    A public entity creates a public trust and an absolute requirement of observing and complying with the letter of the law.   The Admitted fact of paying an unlicensed court reporter is fatal to Mr. Larkin’s attempts to obfuscate his criminal conduct.    
 
Attempts to justify criminal conduct after discovery of the conduct is usually evidence in aggravation and when a Disciplinary Commission is caught violating the law a serious breakdown in the Justice system.    This appears to be the situation in the Denison case and at this piont in time the Law enforcement organization in the STate of Illinois, and the Honest members of the Disciplinary Commission (IARDC – and the Illinois Supreme Court) have an obligation to the People of the State of Illinois to demand that Jerome Larkin and attorney involved in this perfidy immediately surrender their law licenses, and turn themselves into law enforcement to address the serious criminal conduct that has been perpetrated.
 
When the Illinois Legislature enacts laws, the said laws are not suggestions to the political and judicial elite – they are the LAW and those designated to enforce them and live by them must do so.    LARKIN and his 18 UsCA 371 co-conspirators have no excuses — 
This is simple – either the States attorney of Cook County, the Attorney General of the State of Illinois, the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, the Illinois Supreme Court either arrest Jerome Larkin and all the IARDC involved in this criminal conduct or they resign their offices!     
As Larkin has openly and notoriously violated the law, admitted the same in an affidavit by **** before the Illinois Supreme Court in light of the most recent alleged documents reported to have been filed in the Supreme Court of Illinois he and his subordinates who participated in the breach of his public duty must not only be prosecuted by make restitution to the State of Illinois for every single similar instance to demonstrate that the Illinois law and Constitution not only means something but apply to all citizen rich and poor, big and small, powerful and weak.

The ARDC continues the coverup and continues their crimes against the State of Illinois

From Joanne;

As you will recall, on or about 5/24/16, I filed a Supplement to my Motion to Vacate and served the ARDC with the pleading relating how the ARDC had 2500 pages (out of 2600) transcribed by an unlicensed court reporter.

The Illinois Law on Court reporters is clear that in order to protect the public, all court reporters must be licensed in order to prepare and file transcripts with the court and no judgment shall issue on any cause of action where the court reporter(s) were unlicensed.  The Illinois legislature could not be clearer on the matter.

Larkin, Opryszek, Smart, Alnaqib and Sang Yul Lee should have immediately stroked a check for $18,554.58 made payable to the ARDC and notified the Illinois Supreme Court the judgment has been satisfied out of their own pockets because the judgment was wrongfully and illegally obtained.  They are licensed lawyers and should know that they cannot bill or be involved in any proceeding where a bill is false and fraudulent.

The ARDC admits that the court reporter was unlicensed for a period beginning in 2005.

Opryszek and Larkin, in their pleading, sidesteps the issue of a false and fraudulent bill and does not explain how their filing false and fraudulent transcripts constitutes perjury, subornation of perjury and obstruction of justice.

Larkin, Opryszek, Smart, Alnaqib and Sang Yul Lee, on or by 5/30/16, should have submitted a check to the ARDC account for $18,554.58.  Their illegal actions are a conspiracy, joint and several, against all the citizens of the State of Illinois who are entitled to protection against unscrupulous attorneys and the funds should be used for that purpose, not to commit further felonies and conversion of funds against honest and ethical citizens who are running blogs to help court corruption victims.

It is now July 1, 2016 and apparently on June 29, 2016, the ARDC has not received any reimbursement for funds taken under false pretenses from its own accounts. Instead, the criminals continue to sidestep liability and blame others for their own perjury and subornation of perjury.

By copy of this blog post, I am requesting the the ARDC intake offices open and full, honest and thorough investigation of how $18,554.58 disappeared from the coffers of the ARDC under false pretenses by paying an unlicensed court reporter and obtaining a wrongful license suspension against an innocent, honest and ethical attorney and how they used other culprits and dupes to do so–namely Morgan and Messina and Nextpoint.

You can see their pleading full of excuses and extortion here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6FbJzwtHocwTEhnUFRMVkY3akE

One of their most interesting arguments is the theory of “waiver”. Waiver applies only to civil matters and only when:

Waivers Law & Legal Definition. A waiver is the intentional and voluntary giving up of something. A waiver may be made by an express statement or by conduct, such as not enforcing a right.

A typical example of waiver is when a your landlord accepts half rent and then wants to sue for it later.  He cannot do that.  Once he accepts one dime of rent for the month and not the whole amount, without a written agreement to the contrary, it is presumed in court the balance is waived.

But one cannot “waive” a crime. These are serious felonies that have been committed and no single person can possibly waive theft and conversion of State Assets.  There is simply nothing that I can say or do to prevent the prosecution of these individuals.

This evil cabal that tramples upon first amendment rights–Larkin, Opryszek, Alnaqib, Sang Yul Lee, etc. should have immediately paid this amount back to the State of Illinois, ARDC trust account.  Apparently, they did not do this, and they continue to blame me and come after me. This only compounds their crimes against the State.

And no where in their pleading did they admit this blog tells the truth and only the truth. What the Illinois probate courts are running, and continue to run is a cottage industry of “target, isolate, medicate with narcotics, drain the estate, then narcotize to elimiate and cremate to destroy the witness and evidence”. They claim the blog is a lie, but no one else in their right mind who gets sucked into the guardianship system would ever, in their wildest dreams claim that what goes on in guardianship is nothing other than this mantra.

Joanne

From Ken Ditkowsky–Prominent Heads About to Roll

From Joanne

Apparently some key figures in the nursing home industry have been singing to the Feds like canaries and recently they got news from the Feds that they are now blessed with a clean slate in exchange for the information they provided to get to the head of the corruption in Illinois. As many of you know, the Obama administration and the FBI and HHS has taken a keen interested in curbing Medicare/Medicaid fraud which is bilking taxpayers and our health care system in bogus charges with fraud in some key areas (nursing homes, health insurance, hospice plans (think Seth Gillman who ran Passages for years upgrading as many patients as he could for 2 years, I do believe that the FBI from this blog has taken note it takes the ARDC years to discipline an attorney involved in health care fraud)–the health care fraud charge according to Ken is around 500 to 700% and that is the reason why we do not have single payer Universal health care in this country despite the fact every other developed country, and even many very poor undeveloped countries, have decent to good Universal Health Care.  Just think of all the undelivered wheel chairs, expensive chemo and psych drugs, scooters, IV tubes and bags–you name it, it gets billed to the US govt but the items never get put to use on any actual patient in need).  This is not even to mention the fact it costs $1,000 to $1,500 per month to house a disabled person or senior, but the nursing homes bill what ever they want, minimum $4,000 to $15,000/mo. and are bilking the elderly and their families and Medicare/Medicaid hand over fist–and via a series of complicated corporations, one owning the land, another owning the building, another owning equipment, another managing staff, another managing nurses, another managing doctors–this complicated web of corporations ensures the tangled mess can bill, bill and then bill some more.  More than one court corruption victim has asked why their loved one has their photo up or put in the nursing home book with up to three or four names!  It’s obvious those people don’t exist and to report it immediately to the Feds. Take a picture. Ask the staff and record their answers.  Turn it all in. Fraud hurts our health care system. And it’s not the little guy bilking the state, it’s licensed doctors, nurses, accountants and administrators with degrees and advanced degrees–mostly in fraud. Some steal with a gun, some steal with a pen.

From Ken Ditkowsky:

To: Claudia Donnelly <thedonnellys@oo.net>,
Subject: Re: Guardianship fraud cases Illinois & California – no different than WA State
Date: Jul 1, 2016 2:34 PM
This morning I received a telephone call from one of the major nursing home operators  – he is a major playing in the cottage industry of elder cleansing.   He had a rather traumatic experience.   One day he discovered that the scheme that he was engaged was much more transparent that he believed and he had Eric Rothner as one of the people who wanted to talk to him.   Fortuitously, he heard of my reputation and decided to consult with me.  (my reputation was very simple – if you ask me a question and give me all the facts with which to analyse the problem you will get an answer that you may not like, but it will be honest.)   I instructed him to not to beat around the bush, not to be evasive, and be entirely candid with the Federal Government when they came to call.   TELL THEM THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.
 
He has surfaced several times to assure me that he is following my advice and no matter what the question is he is telling the Federal Investigator the truth.   My response has been to reiterate the fact that the elder cleansers are dishonest and disloyal; however, if you level with a special agent of the FBI (or the IRS) he will not only appreciate it, but, will never stab you in the back.   These Federal agents are not Caesar’s wives, but, all that I met in my more than fifty years in the practice of law are honorable.
 
Today’s telephone call was interesting.   He called to tell me that as of tomorrow all his troubles with the Fed are over and he will now have a clean slate.    He also updated me as to a number of well known ‘dirty’ nursing home operators and provided me with a status report.   Most importantly he assured me that the United States of America was not sitting idle and was addressing the issues that I have writing about in my e-mails.   In fact yesterday there was a major raid that is expected to yield valuable information that will make some of my self-declared ***** unhappy.    
 
Very significantly, one of the people who Jerome Larkin (administrator of the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission is ostentatiously protecting has decided to be absolutely candid with the FBI.   It is the word on the street that some very prominent heads are about to roll.   Most importantly for JoAnne Denison, Lanre Amu and yours truly Mr. Larkin *******.  (censored)
 
Do not lose hope.    Each of the Elder Cleansers (i.e. those who participate in or provide cover for the criminals who isolate elderly victims so that they can be abused, exploited, robbed of their assets, stripped of their civil and human rights and finally their very lives) is a potential target of the United States of America and will face the bar of Justice.   It is just good business to put these bastards out of business and in jail.  Yes they have clout and yes the clout in many cases reaches the highest levels of government; however, to not enforce the Rule of Law equally and appropriately is a formula for disaster.    
 
As an example – Jerome Larkin, the administrator of the IARDC, has been allowed to run rough-shot over Attorneys in Illinois who believed in Rule 8.3, 18 USCA 4 and the duty of all Americans to not cower to criminal elements within government.   Larkin in his position holds a public trust.  Each year he and the IARDC collect millions of dollars from lawyers across the State of Illinois, which funds they hold in a public trust.   It was discovered by a routine audit of public records that the IARDC and Mr. Larkin have been hiring unlicensed court reporters.  (The reason for such hiring is obvious when an agency is conducting kangaroo hearings).   The Illinois statutes provide that it is illegal to pay persons performing unlicensed court reporter services who are not licensed.
 
Of course, in the fit of arrogance, Larkin determined that he was above the law and the concept of public trust did not apply to him.  Ergo, he certified that he made illegal payment to the unlicensed court reporters.   To add to his arrogance and criminal behavior of dipping into public funds for illegal payments, he asked the Supreme Court of Illinois to charge his illegal payments as costs against JoAnne Denison- his chosen victim.   Bingo!   Theft, breach of a public trust, perjury, direct criminal contempt of Court etc.
 
Will Larkin be prosecuted?   Illinois is not one of the most corrupt States for nothing!  If he is not prosecuted a great number of the Illinois Political and Judicial elite better worry for a long time!   There are just so many exhibitions into the mouths of the elderly seeking the few grains of gold therein!    (see Alice Gore case – Probate Sharks.com; MaryGSykes.com, Nasga.com, AAApg.)
 
Maybe this 4th of July we will have real reason to celebrate!          
 

From J. Ditkowsky–Letter to AG Loretta Lynch re: misuse of public funds by Jerome Larkin

From: j. d. <jdit@aol.com>
To: kenneth ditkowsky <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 1:36 PM
Subject: response to one of your recent letters
Jerome Larkin, Director of the Illinois Attorney Registration and
Discipline Commission, has formerly charged Jo Anne Denison for the
printed copy of the entire contents of her blogs (marysykes.com), which
were inadmissible as testimony at her hearing before the IARDC, as they
had to be displayed in the original form, and which were downloaded by a
company which is noted for piracy and pornography,  AND the transcripts
of her hearings before the Illinois Attorney Registration and Discipline
Commission, which were recorded by a(n) unregistered court reporter.
Both of these were totally unethical actions. The second action went
directly counter to Illinois State Statute. The Illinois Supreme Court
dismissed Mrs. Denison’s motion to void these charges.  Since a Supreme
Court has to be presumed to know the law, this in effects VOIDS ALL
professional registrations, including those of attorneys, teachers,
doctors, etc.

OR, more likely, includes the Illinois State Supreme Court as a
co-conspirator in the machinations of Court Appointed Guardians. who
have deprived their wards of their civil rights to the least restrictive
guardianships, and control of their property, access to unprivileged
members of their families, even when they were housed in institutions
which by law are required to allow access of family members, and
contributed to their illnesses and untimely deaths, the court
proceedings in these cases having been published in the above mentioned
blog.  Freedom of the Press of blogs has been guaranteed by Federal
Law.  Certainly commentary on court proceedings is covered under the
First Amendment of the United States Constitution, the Sawyer Case of
1959, and all of the recent First Amendment Cases including
Alvarez and Citizens United, but not limited to same.

It is believed Federal Taxes have not been paid on the illicit gains of
all Guardians and Judicial Appointers of such guardians who have taken
no action to restrain said Guardians from their appropriation of
sometimes very sizeable estates for their own use.  It is known that
both Judge Kawamoto and Judge Stuart were forced to retire to safeguard
their pensions because of their bad actions in such guardianship cases.
It is said that both also moved out of Illinois in order to avoid
further judicial action. (Note that a Supreme Court Chief Justice of
the State of Indiana who also was involved in illegal gains involving
guardianship was forced to resign within the past several years because
of his action involving an ADA case: the elderly are also covered by the
Americans With Disability Act.)

Please take the appropriate actions to make sure that Jerome Larkin pays
the full extent of his Federal Income Taxes owed in consequence of his
misuse of his power as the Director  of the IARDC and that
investigations of all the Judges and Guardians involved in the
violations of the Americans With Disability Act through illegal
restrictions of the civil rights, freedoms and even life of the Elderly
with improperly granted and administered guardianships in Illinois and
the many other states of the United States of America which also have
permitted and continue to permit impermissible guardianships.

Thank you.

Judith Ditkowsky

Letter submitted on the Contact Loretta Lynch form at
https://www.justice.gov/doj/webform/your-message-department-justice

on June 30, 2016, Thursday, June 30, 2016 1L35 on CDT

From Ken Ditkowsky

 Just so the record is clear — In the course of the illegal proceedings brought against JoAnne Denison (see: Alvarez case in which action such as promulgated by Larkin in his 18 USCA 371 coverup was ruled to violate the First Amendment) Larkin engaged unlicensed court reporters.   The Illinois legislature specifically prohibited such engagement to protect the public and specially prohibited the payment for unlicensed services (see Section 13 of the act).    Nevertheless, knowing that the payments were illegal Larkin ex-parte secretly appeared before the Illinois Supreme Court to request reimbursement for the illegal payments. The Supreme Court knowing (or should have known) that the payments ere illegal compounded he felony by entering judgement providing for the payment against Ms. Denison.
 
Thus criminal conduct has occurred in the offices of the IARDC and/or the Supreme Court of Illinois.   If the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois refuses to obey the law, the soveignty of the State of Illinois is in serious jeapody.  
 
NB:  Ms. Denison’s blog is protected by the First Amendment to the United States constitution, Article 1 of the Illinois Constitution, and 47 USCA 230, plus State Statutes.   Here blog has been characterized by Larkin as AKIN TO YELLING FIRE IN A CROWDED THEATER.    If you read the blog you will note that its main object and success has been in reporting official corruption in the Courts.   Exactly why reporting corruption in the Courts that injures the public should be punished in Illinois has never been explained.     It should be noted that the file in In re: Sykes 09 P 4585 and the File in the Alice Gore case confirm and establish the accuracy of significally all of Ms. Denison’s blog reports.    Larkin in an effort to justify his intention disregard of all ethical standards of the legal profession even went so far to the intentionally misrepresent the SCOTUS ruling in the Alvarez case.   He represented one of the rejected arguments as the ruling of the SCOTUS.    The Illinois Supreme Court appears to have rubber stamped Larkin’s perfidy.
Ken Ditkowsky,
Lawyer suspended for 4 years in Illinois for writing thousands of letters, emails and faxes to the authorities regarding corruption in Illinois Courts

From Ken Ditkowsky — Re: govt assault on the 1st Amendment

Subject: The governmental assault on the First Amendment is being noticed.
Date: Jun 29, 2016 9:00 PM
Yesterday the WSJ had an article on how there was a move to criminalize any opposition to the current popular and government sponsored opinion.    Today CBS reported a clandestine meeting between our Attorney General and William Clinton and made no attempt to hide the fact that it thought that this was negotiation for a ‘fix.’   Of course AG Lynch denied the accusation.
The Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission’s attempt to muzzle JoAnne Denison is picking up, and so sure is Jerome Larkin (the administrator) that he has ‘wired’ the Supreme Court of Illinois he and his 18 USCA 371 cronies openly admit that they hired in violation of statute unlicensed court reporters, and in spite of a direct statutory prohibition Larkin breached his public trust and dipped into public funds to illegally compensate these unlicensed individuals. (see filings of the IARDC in the disciplinary case of JoAnne Denison).
We all exchange e-mails lamenting the fact that law enforcement, the media, our elected officials and all others charged with protecting the public interest appear to have tuned out and are ignoring this corruption that threatens our republic.   Janet Phelan lives it constant fear of retribution by government for her outspokenness and has to deal with unauthorized invasions of her privacy and basic rights.    Tim Lahrman was literally seized off the street and jailed.   Barbara Stone was jailed, humiliated and forced to promise to be silent.   Gloria Sykes was beaten while Sheriff’s deputies saw nothing!  *****.
What is being concealed!   Alice Gore’s teeth being ravaged so that a few grains of gold can be stolen from her mother and literally hundreds of senior citizens isolated so that their estates can be ravaged and they can be dehumanized for the profit of nursing home operators, hospice operations and assorted predators.   Who is doing the concealment – our political and judicial elite who at this point in time feel empowered to ignore the laws of the republic and operate on rules more to their liking (and not available to us).    We the great unwashed and no-establishment dummies are too stupid (according to a Yale professor and a General) to know the difference.
The BRexit suggested that a revolution is underway.   Maybe???    This evening the WSJ reported:
Hope springs eternal, however, the Good Lord helps those who help themselves.
We now have of record before the Supreme Court of Illinois admissions by Jerome Larkin and his cronies at the IARDC of clear and concise serious violations of the Laws of the State of Illinois.    It has been almost a month since these admissions have occurred.    He has not made any effort to ameliorate his admitted crimes thus once again proving his scienter.   Why has he not been charged and been required to account?     

Nova Scotia must review dozens of cases because hair strand drug testing too unreliable

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/06/27/man-charged-raping-2-women-gets-one-day-jail/86425872/

Apparently darker hair absorbs more chemicals and drugs than lighter hair, and women using alcohol based hair care products can make the alcohol portion of the test unreliable.

Nova Scotia has become the fourth known province to suspend or ban the use of drug and alcohol hair testing in child protection proceedings, after New Brunswick, British Columbia and Ontario.

“The department has decided to suspend hair strand testing for child protection cases in Nova Scotia effective immediately,” said department of community services spokeswoman Heather Fairbairn Tuesday.

The move comes in the wake of a 2014 Star investigation into the Hospital for Sick Children’s Motherisk laboratory, which found that prior to 2010, the lab was using a hair test that was not recognized as the “gold standard.”

An independent review deemed the hair test results “inadequate and unreliable” in 2015.

They were used in potentially thousands of child protection cases in Ontario as well as in British Columbia, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, where they were routinely accepted as evidence with little scrutiny in court.

“The department has been reviewing the use of hair strand testing for some time. We stopped using Motherisk as soon as issues about their test results became known in 2015,” said Fairbairn.

“Since then, questions continued to be raised about the procedures used and the differences between the drug testing laboratories. The decision to suspend all hair strand testing will enable careful consideration of these questions. For the time being, we will rely on other established methods of testing and social work practice.”

Motherisk ceased its hair testing practices in 2015 prior to the completion of the independent review, but some provinces were still using hair tests from other labs in some cases until very recently.
“It’s welcome and long overdue,” said Halifax lawyer Mike Dull of the suspension. “Obviously, it’s recognition by the province of Nova Scotia that such tests are not reliable, so they’re taking active steps from preventing future harm that could result from these unreliable tests.

“But the question remains: What are they doing about the past harm, to families affected by these tests that they’ve implicitly deemed to be unreliable by stopping to use them? Those are questions that remain unanswered.”

Dull is co-counsel in the case of Nova Scotia residents William McIntyre and Natacha LeRoy. Motherisk hair testing was done in child protection cases that dealt with some of their children.

They are among an unknown number of Canadians outside of Ontario whose cases will not be reviewed by the ongoing Motherisk Commission in this province, chaired by retired Justice Judith Beaman, which is looking at files going back 25 years.

McIntyre and LeRoy’s case is being reviewed by the Nova Scotia department of community services, said Dull, but it’s unclear when they’ll receive any information.

“It’s an atrocity,” McIntyre, 50, told the Star earlier this year. “How could this be just an Ontario thing? You came down and took my hair and sent it to Ontario … This is not just Ontario. This is a Canada-wide situation.”

McIntyre and LeRoy’s 3-year-old son was made a ward of the province and later adopted as the result of a proceeding in which Motherisk said both parents had tested positive for traces of cocaine.

McIntyre and LeRoy — who were previously in a relationship and remain good friends — deny using the drug at the time. McIntyre also claims that subsequent hair testing done in the U.S. showed he was negative. They say they were asking that the court grant custody of their son to McIntyre with access to LeRoy.

There were 49 open child protection cases using Motherisk hair tests in Nova Scotia in 2014. The province continued to use hair testing services from other labs, including Toronto-based Dynacare, CBC reported.

The lab confirmed to the Star on Tuesday it has done testing for clients in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, but would not disclose who the clients were, citing its privacy policy.

A Dynacare spokesperson said in an emailed statement that it provides “robust, high-quality analytical toxicology service” and presumptive positive tests are confirmed with more specific tests.

“Analysis for the presence of drugs in hair samples has been utilized and accepted as a powerful evidential tool in many criminal cases in the last decade. It is an important component of modern forensic science,” Andrea Price wrote in an emailed statement.

Motherisk hair tests have been used in Quebec court proceedings, but they were either requested by individuals or children and youth agencies and are not tracked by the government, a Ministry of Health spokeswoman previously told the Star.

Questions have been raised for years about hair strand testing, regardless of the laboratory performing the service.

Because of the effect of alcohol-based hair products, “the risk for false-positive results appears high when monitoring a female population,” Motherisk’s own manager at the time, Joey Gareri, wrote in a 2011 paper he co-authored with Motherisk founder and director Gideon Koren.

Studies have also suggested that drugs appear to be incorporated more readily into darker-coloured hair, and there is also evidence that the way substances are incorporated into the hair of a single individual may vary from strand to strand.

Ontario’s Ministry of Children and Youth Services ordered children’s aid societies amid the independent review into Motherisk last year to stop using hair strand testing.

The results from that review, released in December, were damning.

“In the circumstances, I have concluded that the laboratory’s flawed hair-testing evidence had serious implications for the fairness of child protection and criminal cases,” concluded independent reviewer Susan Lang, a retired Ontario Court of Appeal judge, last December.

The suspension of hair strand testing across the country would appear to be a natural consequence of the Lang report, said Katharina Janczaruk, chair of the Family Lawyers Association of Ontario.

“I think a natural event flowing from this examination of hair testing is a reaffirmation that we need to look at those other factors (in child protection proceedings), we need to demand that social workers are doing their social work (role) and not simply relying on the test, that lawyers are questioning tests when tests are being made,” she said.
With files from Rachel Mendleson and Sarah-Joyce Battersby

Read more about: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, British Columbia

From Janet Pipes — Quotes of the Day on Guardinship

Professional Guardianship Fraud Quotes
“A simple slip-and-fall can put someone into the guardianship of unknown persons with no knowledge to family and friends until the deed is done. Forced incompetency; get control over everything and the ward (senior) loses all rights.” Robert W Melton, Pinellas County Internal Auditor, “Dirty Tricks of Guardianships – The Need for Change,” April 2004
“You are a target because you have assets. You don’t necessarily have to be very old. You can even be quite lucid. That won’t stop these predators. When it comes to removing your rights and your money, these folks are experts.” Money Magazine.
“It’s difficult to believe it happens, but forced guardianship fraud runs unchecked throughout international probate courts. Deemed incapacitated by the courts, elderly citizens are robbed of all decision-making rights and assigned professional guardians whose only-interest lies in profiting from their vulnerable charges’ estates.” The Washington Examiner
“There is a web of murderous profiteering, all sanctioned by a corrupt legal system. As
guardianship firms take everything they can, state attorneys turn a blind eye. Crooked cops harass family members into silence, while the very attorneys you hired won’t help for fear of losing their licenses.” Katherine Hein, Journalist

“Instead of serving to protect the assets of incapacitated persons, the existing guardianship system presents the opportunity for unscrupulous guardians to loot the assets of their wards and enrich themselves with impunity.” -New York Grand Jury
“These are the people who may one day control your loved one’s health care, living
arrangements, finances, and very life. Ostensibly created to prevent financial abuse by
caregivers and family members, professional guardianship instead gave the legal system carte blanche to destroy lives.” Dr. Angela Woodhull

” … usually after the victims are purportedly diagnosed with a disease such as. Alzheimer’s (often by non-expert without medical evidence), then, in spite of protests by family members, the family court has historically , consistently approved the bilking of the hard-earned assets of elderly or disabled persons by crooks-for-hire guardians under the color of often ignored Nevada laws.” Steve Miller, former Las Vegas City Councilman
“outside of execution, guardianship is the most radical remedy we have.”  Elias Cohen, Philadelphia Attorney and Gerontologist
“your loved one kidnapped, your inheritance stolen. It’s all legal and you can’t stop it .” David Culbertson, National pipe and Plastics, NY.

See these quotes and more in Michael Larsen’s New Book,

“Guardianship:  How Judges and lawyers Steal Your Money”
This new book is a resource guide for seniors and their loved ones to help them understand the problems of not having good representation or an advocate who can help them avoid dangerous pitfalls as they age.  It is also designed to help seniors discuss the issues pertaining to incapacity before they are in that precarious position.

Available on Amazon.

Thanks Janet for sending this along.

Alabama state works on destroying a family

Whether you are pro life or pro choice or whatever is going on here, this is the bizarre story of a 14 year old girl who was raped, decided to keep the child, had the child, and then soon as the baby was born, the brilliant state of Alabama took both the mother and newborn, nursing at the breast into state custody.  Mega media was silent.  The State of Alabama also let the alleged father and rapist see the baby at the hospital against the wishes of the girl and her family.

BUT the internet went viral.  Millions of hits, all over the place.  MedicalKidnap, the Daily Haze, and dozens of smaller blogs just got the thing buzzing like nuts.

So what did DCHS from Alabama do next?  The right thing, return this mother and child to where the 14 year old wanted to live with her grandparents?  For sure not, that would make sense.  Leave mom and baby be, right?

Of course not, they put mom with one foster family and baby with another!  Next, they took the girl’s 14 year old brother from the grandparents and put him in yet a 3rd foster home. Psychopathic monsters, they are.  As if DCHS couldn’t make a worse decision. And then, because apparently they are getting bad press and threats and no one likes them any longer, they got a gag order against the bloggers, and the family, and then sued the blogs.

Jerome Larkin would be proud.  Ruin a bunch of lives, make the state pay for it, cover everything up, and then make the state pay for that lawsuit too.

Little does Alabama know about bloggers, but these are activist bloggers and real hard core.  No, I cannot possibly publish the comments made by some of these blogs about the lawsuit, but you know I love these types of kill the messenger types of gag order lawsuits.

check out the story here:

https://community.healthimpactnews.com/topic/3323/health-impact-news-named-in-alabama-lawsuit-for-exposing-state-sponsored-child-kidnapping

http://www.opexposecps.anonresistance.com/Articles/Article022.html#sthash.bRongbGd.2OEow3re.dpbs

and there are more links on these sites, so I have no idea how the court thinks it is going to enforce any gag order and force them to remove anything because every night the historical websites troll the internet and keep everything forever anyway.

It’s finally a losing battle. The internet is the great leveler.

from the Daily Haze:

The lawsuit is just a glimpse into the corrupt injustices Shelby County is doing to families on a daily basis. At the heart of their corruption lies a bizarre money trail that webs through the entire State of Alabama. Alabama holds no jurisdiction over Daily Haze, as we are not based in their state. Daily Haze has simply been doing a full internal investigation into the practices of DHR, and have broken no laws to conduct our interview, violated no rights, and followed all protocols. In short, we have done nothing wrong. The Shelby County DHR is simply trying to bully us into shutting up.

The title of this article says it all. To the Alabama DHR, f*** you! We will not be backing off this story. In fact, you just gave us more than enough reason to dig even deeper. The actions of DHR at the Shelby County Courthouse were not the actions of an innocent party attempting to help a family. These were the actions of a guilty party attempting to silence everyone that was trying to expose their illegal and unjust actions. Earlier in the day, Daily Haze released proof that the grandparents had been cleared by DHR just a week before the children were removed from their custody.

As of now, we do not have an update on how court went, but will be waiting to update that information as soon as we can. This does not look good for this family, as today we have witnessed that justice is dead in Shelby County Alabama. Today Shelby County Alabama trampled on the Constitution and infringed upon both civilian and press rights. One can only wonder how long this corruption has been going on?

There are numerous address and emails and phone numbers on these websites to call and complain to public officials.

Keep up the good work, bloggers.  Don’t let up until that family is together again.

Need more proof the IARDC is hoplessly corrupt?

Here is proof that at my Review Board hearing the court reporter was told “not to set up”, that “we don’t do that here”.  Amazing. So where are we, North Korea?

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6FbJzwtHocwdWVGUHpDNGdralh6ZkM4ZEdadDVETElYZ0hj

This is the very basis or root cause of corruption in the Illinois Court System–the changed transcript or the court reporter told “not to set up”.  This happens all the time in secret child custody meetings with the judge and in other arenas.  In the Phillips case, the judge manipulated a settlement discussion meeting so a “court reporter could not set up” and that cost the estate $300,000.

It is the common stated goal of an open, honest, transparent and free democracy to have open and public court hearings–nothing must be done in secret.  But here we have the ARDC advocating and even insisting on kicking out the court reporters.

You will recall when I published the covered outlets so no one can bring a laptop and blog all day long.

The ARDC doesn’t want blogging or court reporters. They want secrecy to protect their friends and cronies.  Court reporters and blogging stop them in their tracks and they don’t want that.

No court reporters need apply.  No bloggers ever period. These are covert operations.

joanne

From Ken Ditkowksy–no excuse for Larkin to use unlicensed court reporters!

I think we need to send the IARDC a Media FOIA request right away:
1) How many court reporters has the IARDC hired in the last 10 years that have been unlicensed?
2) do they check the license of every court reporter they hire?
3) who at the ARDC checks for the court reporter’s license.
4) who hired, participated in the hiring of unlicensed court reporters and court reporters coming from agencies that have invalid/expired corporate names?
6) how much has the IARDC paid unlicensed court reporters for the last 10 years?
7) who hired or participated in the hiring of each of these court reporters?
8) has any person employed by the IARDC received any kickback, finders fee or payment of any kind from any court reporter or court reporter agency?
9) has any person employed by the IARDC received any promise or benefit of any kind or type from any licensed court reporter or court reporter agency?
To: Probate Sharks <verenusl@gmail.com>, and 30 others…
Subject: this should tell you something!
Date: Jun 26, 2016 1:09 PM
The Supreme Court of Illinois by its obvious mistreatment of Disciplinary Cases including but not limited the JoAnne Denison case has abrogated its position and each of the justices reduced the dignity of the court to zero.
The fact that the court knows or should know that by it obvious attornment to the criminal fraud of Jerome Larkin it has effectually made all licensing in the State of Illinois void.   Larkin at all times relevant knew or should have known that he was violating the law when he engaged unlicensed court reports to provide reports of proceedings for his kangaroo hearings, and he certainly knew (also the Court knew) that his secret petition asking the Supreme Court to engaged JoAnne Denison to reimburse him for the illegal payments was wrongful.
However, the Court cannot act as a Court improperly and attorn to individual officeholders and/or public officials doing wrongful acts.   Thus, it cannot affirm a State agency or even a Judicial entity engaging unlicensed professionals (court reporters) and therefore as licensing statutes are clearly VOID Larkin can engaged unlicensed court reporters in derogation of the Rule of Law.   No valid licensing equates to a carte blanc to engage anyone as a court reporter.
The net is simple – the State of Illinois and the IARDC have been illegally licensing people for years and every dime collected must be returned to the people who have been misled by the State officials and judicial officials.   
It is dishonest for the State of Illinois and the IaRDC to not return this money immediately!
 
Ken Ditkowsky