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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)

More on horrendous guardianships

http://www.poconorecord.com/news/20160305/court-appointed-overseers-of-elderly-decide-where-their-wards-live-who-can-visit-and-for-how-long

By Stacy M. Brown
For the Pocono Record

Posted Mar. 5, 2016 at 8:57 PM

Mary Whitten worries each day about her uncle, former advertising executive Harvey Whitten.

The elder Whitten, a Korean War medic, suffered a stroke in 2010 and was diagnosed with vascular dementia. Because of his condition, some in Whitten’s family moved to petition the court to appoint a guardian.

That decision has haunted Mary Whitten.

“My uncle is a victim. His guardian changed his doctors and medication behind the backs of his family and approved of his being administered 5 milligrams of Haldol daily, a chemical restraint,” Whitten said.

When Whitten, a Montgomery County resident, read a column about elder guardianship abuse, she was pleased that Pennsylvania cases were finally being thrust into the national spotlight.

The article, written by former Court TV reporter and nationally syndicated columnist Diane Dimond, highlighted what the journalist called a shameful racket in America.

Families and loved ones are often shut out while the health of the elder quickly diminishes, according to Dimond.

“My uncle’s guardian emailed last September and said my uncle couldn’t eat anymore without a feeding tube,” Whitten said. “We went to visit and he was trying to eat his sheets because he had been starved for two days.”

Harvey Whitten suffers from allergies to clothes detergents, and as a result, not only was he starving, but he had blisters on his skin from the detergents, his niece said.

“My cousin asked if there was some way that my uncle could be fed, since he was trying to eat the sheets. So, (the guardian) decided to give him ‘comfort food.’ If the family didn’t say anything, he would have been starved to death,” Whitten said.

The legal ordeal in fighting the guardianship arrangement has cost Whitten more than $10,000 and her uncle $400,000 just last year, she said, while noting others have spent close to $1 million in legal fees trying to extricate loved ones from court-ordered guardianship.

94-year-old’s plight

Dimond’s column chronicled the plight of 94-year-old Betty Winstanley, who resides at the Masonic Village retirement home in Elizabethtown.

Despite appearing of sound mind and somewhat wealthy, Winstanley’s desire to live elsewhere is still being ignored. Her husband of 72 years has died and she wants to move to a care home closer to her two children in Maryland.

However, Pennsylvania Common Pleas Judge Jay J. Hoberg declared her “totally incompetent” 19 months ago, meaning she can’t make decisions on her own.

Guardians appointed by the court get to make all of her decisions, including where she must live, who can visit and for how long, even whether she is allowed to take short day trips away from Masonic Village.

“I had no idea the enormity of the nation’s elder guardianship problem or how many individuals or organizations are fighting to change the now bastardized set of laws that can turn an elder’s life into a nightmare,” Dimond said.

“If the aging baby boomer generation hasn’t already experienced the problem with their own parents — steel yourselves — you could be the next one to get caught up in this awful system,” she warned.

While organizations like the National Association to Stop Guardianship Abuse (NASGA) and Americans Against Abusive Probate Guardianship say the system is corrupt all around the state, the Pocono Record could not find similar abuses in Monroe or Pike counties.

“I have filed many petitions for guardianship and in the past have been appointed by the last four Monroe County Court of Common Pleas Orphan’s Court judges to represent alleged incapacitated persons,” said Stroudsburg attorney Lori J. Cerato.

“I have never experienced a case such as the one (Dimond) reported on in Lancaster.”

But the cases of Whitten and Winstanley — and many others — are real.

Winstanley, who said she attended an important initial hearing before a judge while still grieving her husband’s death and without her hearing aids, was unable to understand the proceeding, and her court-appointed attorney never told her she had the right to speak before the judge made a decision.

On July 17, 2014, Judge Hoberg heard testimony from a doctor and nurse from Masonic Village and declared Winstanley a totally incapacitated person, presumably ignoring that she had been tested by two independent neuropsychologists who declared that she was of sound mind.

She was appointed two guardians and immediately she said she felt cut off from the rest of the world. Winstanley’s next hearing before the court is scheduled for 9 a.m. on Wednesday, March 30.

“In Pennsylvania, judges have broad discretion in assessing credibility and determining whether or not someone has capacity, subject to review by the Superior Court of Pennsylvania and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,” Cerato said.

Hawley-based attorney Leatrice A. Anderson said while she does a lot of guardianships in Pike and Wayne counties and has been appointed as counsel for incapacitated individuals on a number of occasions, she’s always careful in the pursuit of the guardianships as both counsel for the petitioners or counsel for the individual.

“When I am appointed as counsel for the incapacitated person, I make a point to go see them wherever they live so I can speak with them one on one without the confusion and nervousness of a courtroom setting,” Anderson said.

“My heart breaks for (Winstanley), but in fairness, the judge was given a certain picture of the situation and he ruled what he felt was in her best interest. Taking responsibilities and making decisions on behalf of our elderly community places enormous burden on guardians, and it shouldn’t be sought out without thinking the process through.”

Still, there are, “plenty of cases in places like Montgomery County,” many of which are highlighted on a Facebook page dedicated to guardianship abuse there, said Elaine Renoire of NASGA.

“The motherlode of our cases are in Montgomery County,” Renoir said, adding that the laws must be changed.

Push for change

To that end, the daughter of a late actor has led the charge.

Last week, Utah senators passed a bill that protects the rights of adult children to visit ailing parents in that state.

The bill, SB 111, places limitations on the power of a guardian to prohibit association between an adult ward and a relative.

“We are thrilled about this and we’re hoping that all other states will follow,” said Catherine Falk, who pushed for introduction and passage of the bill.

Falk is the daughter of the legendary “Columbo” actor Peter Falk, who in 2008 became completely incapacitated as a result of advanced dementia.

Falk’s wife, Catherine Falk’s stepmother, however, allegedly failed to inform Falk’s children of his condition and refused to allow the actor’s children to visit their ailing father, his daughter said.

In December 2008, Catherine Falk filed a petition for conservatorship of her father in the Los Angeles Superior Court in order to find out his medical condition and obtain the right to visit.

Further, Falk’s wife did not notify his daughters of the actor’s death. Instead, they learned of it from media reports and their attorney. Falk was buried without notification being given to his daughters.

U.S. Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Utah, who led sponsorship of the bill in the Senate, said it’s important to give people a chance to visit family members before they die.

“I think most people want to make peace and express their love and sadness and maybe try to clear up any misunderstanding before someone passes away,” Weiler said.

Study done in Pa.

In 2013, a Pennsylvania task force chaired by State Supreme Court Justice Debra McCloskey Todd was formed to study the overall issues of access to justice being faced by older residents.

The 38-member Elder Law Task Force recommended several actions, two of which were immediately put into place including the creation of an Office of Elder Justice in the Courts and the formation of an Advisory Council on Elder Justice in the Courts that serves as the judiciary’s liaison to the executive and legislative branches.

“As our population ages, courts are facing unprecedented challenges, the increasing population of elders anticipated during the next 20 years is likely to result in a substantial increase in court cases regarding the protection of vulnerable elderly persons, including guardianship, elder abuse proceedings and other types of cases,” Todd said in a statement.

The sheer volume of complaints in sealed cases are staggering and highlight citizen’s attitudes about the way the legal system has taken laws designed to help the elderly and twisted them to insure continued employment for judges, lawyers, court-appointed guardians, social workers and those who own or staff elder care homes, Dimond said.

All of it conveniently paid for out of the estates of the elderly.

“Change couldn’t come fast enough for Betty Winstanley,” Dimond noted.

“Ever since her eldest son, Richard, took a family squabble to court in July 2014, she has had to live where her husband died — and without being near the family she so desperately craves,” Dimond said.

“Her estate was worth $1.9 million before her guardianship began in July 2014. Wonder what it’s down to now?”

We want to hear from you — do you have a relative or loved-one in a similar situation? If so, write to bbrelje@poconorecord.com

Three great new books from Janet Pipes

From: Janet Pipes <j.pipes@comcast.net>
Sent: Mar 4, 2016 11:38 AM
To: ….
Subject: Three books together present a case for corruption throughout the U.S. family court system.

This year I received information about these books from ………… that have been recently published:

 

VENDETTA:  Cleveland Ohio and America’s Archipelago of Legal Failure

Details how honest lawyers are disciplined by the various state bar associations for telling the truth about corruption.

 

THE WORST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD:  The Trafficking of Children and Parents Through U.S. Family Courts

Details how abused children are profitable for family courts

 

GUARDIANSHIP:  How Judges and Lawyers Steal Your Money

Details the rampant corruption in the family courts related to the elderly and disabled.

 

Attached is information on each of these books.  Our children, elderly and disabled are “profit centers” for corrupt courts, and attorneys who speak against the corruption are severely sanctioned.  Not even Stephen Spielberg could write something this scary and evil.

 

Please send to interested parties.

 

Thank you,

Janet

 

Thanks Janet, I am in the third one with Ken Ditkowsky on pp. 26 et seq.  Keep the books coming. I am writing several for probate victims right now.

From Ken Ditkowsky

To:
Subject:   Bishops covered up child abuse and violations of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Date: Mar 4, 2016 12:26 PM
Today’s Wall Street Journal article   http://on.wsj.com/21I8D4C   is indicative of the fact that the narrative that we are witnessing in the political world, i.e. cover-up, fraud, deceit, and conspiracy is everywhere.     Right is left, up is down, truth is false is the new criteria.    In fact the bribe solicitation and payment is everywhere.    See: http://on.wsj.com/1Qyj5kw
 
During last night’s Republican debate, the front runner admitted to paying for services rendered to the Democratic front runner at least ten times.    The amazing candor demonstrating that we have the best politicos that money can buy does not seem to really faze anyone.    Purchasing judges, public officials, et al. is a way of life in 21st Century America.    In fact the JoAnne Denison disciplinary prosecution and the total lack of ‘hue and cry’ demonstrates that corrupt public officials such as Jerome Larkin, administrator of the Illinois Attorney Disciplinary Commission are becoming the norm not the exception.
 
The perception is that entire system is rotten to the core.   It is hard to argue that it is not.      Ms. Lerner at the IRS openly used her position for partisan political purposes in derogation of the long standing rules of the agency, but she appears to have escaped discipline.    On the other side of the coin Lanre Amu pursuant to ABA rule 8.3 reported that a judge was refusing to recuse herself in a case that the defendant employed her on its corporate board and her brother was the attorney for the defendant.    (Larkin and his 18 USCA 242 and 18 USCA 371 co=conspirators determined that even though the respected Crain’s Chicago Business made the same averment that Amu’s report was false and jeopardized the course of Justice in Illinois)    Amu received an interim suspension followed by a three year suspension.     [Indeed, the only false statements made were made by the Disciplinarians!)
 
Last night’s Republican debate made it very clear that America is in crisis AND “we the People” are about to lose our Liberty and heritage unless something is done immediately.    The assaults by the clergy, the judiciary, and protective services on our children are becoming common place and the elder cleansing of our senior citizens a cottage industry.     
 
We need right now an HONEST INVESTIGATION and a cleansing of the corrupt judges, lawyers, political and judicial officials who are polluting our environment and National existence.     There is no Constitutional Right to be a public officials (judicial or political) and there is no human right for a clout heavy individual to prey on the elderly, the young, or the disabled.   
 
Act now before the cancer of corruption becomes stage 4.

Very Troubling: Rockland Judge gives advice to one party ex parte from bench and allows perjured testimony from lawyers and litigant

CARRINGTON UPDATE: 2010 transcripts show Warren gave advice to McNelis from the bench

BY MICHAEL VOLPE
Susan Carrington’s custody case took another troubling turn when she alleged in a New York Appeal’s Court that the judge who originally handled her case provided ex-parte advice to her ex-husband, John McNelis, in a hearing in 2010.
According to a February 3, 2016, appeal filed with New York’s Supreme Court, on May 7, 2010, John McNelis along with his attorney, Scott Ugell, entered the Rockland County Family Court Room of then Judge William Warren and began discussing issues related to custody with his ex-wife, Susan Carrington. The three began having a conversation without Carrington’s presence who was in Washington D.C. at the time.
McNelis was appearing in Rockland County though a Maryland Court had already issued a full ruling on their divorce and granted the couple joint custody. At the hearing McNelis told Warren that he had reason to believe Carrington was a danger to her children, the same accusations that had been dismissed in Maryland court with prejudice only a few months earlier and for which McNelis had actually been fined by the court for making frivolous allegations.
Yet transcripts and audio show that Warren did not request evidence or a transcript from prior court hearings, nor provide Carrington any reasonable opportunity to deflect such accusations. Instead, transcripts show that the longtime Rockland justice took McNelis seemingly at his word, going so far as to tell him that if he was in his shoes and was afraid for his daughters safety, he would not follow the Maryland order to return the children there for their regular visitation.
McNelis was attempting to transfer jurisdiction to Rockland County where he had recently moved, something not easily accomplished according to federal regulations. Transcripts show Warren told McNelis:
“What I’m saying is, the method you are using to attack this problem is not the method that should be used,” Judge Warren instructed McNelis from the bench. “What you want to do, I believe, is to change the visitation in some way, get some kind of control of her contact with the children. But presumptively the case has to go to Maryland. You didn’t bring that kind of a case. You didn’t bring a visitation or custody; you brought a family offense case, which doesn’t have those same requirements on it. A family offense case can be brought in this state, where you live, even if you’ve been living here for 10 minutes.”
Carrington’s lawyer Barbara Schwartz contends that Warren’s words could easily be construed as legal advice from the bench, which is against judicial ethics. The issue of jurisdiction has been at the source of controversy in this custody matter with Carrington, as she has argued that New York never legally acquired jurisdiction in the case and that McNelis and his attorneys worked around the system.
“Family offense means that one person hurt or threatened a member of the household,” according to the New York State Courts definition. By bringing his motion, as Warren suggested, as a family offense, Rockland County could begin to wrestle jurisdiction from Maryland.
McNelis, who had several DUI and drug arrests on his personal rap sheet, claimed repeatedly throughout the proceedings that Carrington was an abuser of drugs; an allegation that had also been made and dismissed by a Maryland court. The Rockland County allegation that Carrington abused drugs was backed up by the conclusion of Dr. Charles Heller, a New York forensic psychologist, who determined this without speaking or examining Carrington, but strictly based on McNelis allegations, according to several court filings.
Rolf Thorsen, who was assisting Warren on the case, demanded Carrington go for drug rehabilitation before she could see her children again. But Carrington was then rejected from entrance to a Rockland County drug rehabilitation facility because the facility determined she had no drugs in her system and did not have a drug problem. Somehow, this still did not help her position with the Rockland court.
The Rockland County Family Court system has stopped Carrington from having any contact with her two daughters for more than five years, though the court has never changed the custody order in Maryland. Carrington told RCT that this transcript shows that the intention all along for Rockland County was to keep her from her children.
“I was shocked in utter disbelief that my fate was predetermined and that no matter what I did or didn’t do, McNelis was going to make true on his promise to take my daughters away from me.”
While New York ceded jurisdiction in January, Carrington continues appealing in New York State to overturn several orders including one sanctioning her for approximately $15,000. In Carrington’s opinion, New York never truly acquired jurisdiction. Carrington also hopes to reestablish Maryland’s authority in the case as soon as possible and has filed a brief in court in that state.
McNelis currently lives at an unknown address in Florida wish his and Carrington’s two daughters. A person must live a state for at least six months before the state is eligible to claim jurisdiction in a custody case.
Ugell and Heller would not comment on the case at this time.

Tonight on Wrongfully Disciplined Lawyer Series–Atty Gene Wrona

From: Andy Ostrowski <ajo@bsolaw.com> [Edit Address Book]

To: ‘kenneth ditkowsky’ <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com>, ‘Bill Scheidler’ <billscheidler@outlook.com>, ‘Jeffrey Norkin’ <jeff@norkinlaw.com>, ‘HAR Justice’ <harjustice007@gmail.com>

Cc: ‘Katherine Hine’ <katherinehine@wljaradio.net>, ………..

Subject: RE: Justice Served with Andy Ostrowski – disciplined lawyer series – lawyers for judicial reform

Date: Mar 2, 2016 3:49 PM

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Tune in this evening to hear more from Gene Wrona, who was on the show last year to talk about his disciplinary issue after he came across issues concerning altered court transcripts here in Pennsylvania.

 

Tonight Gene will tell the story of how he, like last night’s guest, Richard Fine, became incarcerated during his efforts to help a woman who got caught up in the criminal process in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the home of my practice.  Please see Gene’s site at http://pacourtinjustices.com/

 

http://twigscaferadio.com/ at 6 p.m. eastern time.

From: Andy Ostrowski [mailto:ajo@bsolaw.com]
Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 7:27 AM
To: ‘Andy Ostrowski’; ‘kenneth ditkowsky’; ‘Bill Scheidler’; ‘Jeffrey Norkin’; ‘HAR Justice’
Cc: ‘Katherine Hine’;……………………………
Subject: RE: Justice Served with Andy Ostrowski – disciplined lawyer series – lawyers for judicial reform

Very useful quote in our efforts:

 “No class of the community ought to be allowed freer scope in the expression or publication of opinions as to the capacity, impartiality or integrity of judges than members of the bar. They have the best opportunities of observing and forming a correct judgment. They are in constant attendance on the courts. Hundreds of those who are called on to vote never enter a court-house, or if they do, it is only at intervals as jurors, witnesses or parties. To say that an attorney can only act or speak on this subject under liability to be called to account and to be deprived of his profession and livelihood by the very judge or judges whom he may consider it his duty to attack and expose, is a position too monstrous to be entertained for a moment under our present system,”

Justice Sharwood in Ex Parte Steinman and Hensel, 95 Pa 220, 238-39 (1880).

From Atty Dean Loren–how to file tax liens against Estate thieves

From: dean loren <deanloren@gmail.com>
Sent: Mar 2, 2016 9:46 AM
To: JoAnne M Denison <joanne@justice4every1.com>
Subject: Re: IRS – COMPLAINT?

I just googled IRS Estate Fraud and

got The Section for Estates and the Special Form
form 3949-A
for person or business (Estate is a business or the Executor is considered
as opposed to your personal accountant who files)

Specific Instructions
Section A – Provide Information About the Person/Business You Are Reporting, if known.

Provide as much information as you know about the person or business you are reporting.

1. Complete if you are reporting an individual. Include their name, street address, city, state, ZIP code, social security number or taxpayer identification number, occupation, date of birth, marital status, name of spouse (if married), and email address. Include as much information as you know.

2. Complete if you are reporting a business. Include the business name, business street address, city, state, ZIP code, employer identification number (EIN), telephone number(s), email address, and website, if known.

Note: Complete both parts if you are reporting a business and its owner. Section B – Use to Describe the Alleged Tax Law Violation(s)

3. Check all Tax Violations That Apply to Your Report.

False Exemption- Claimed persons as dependents they are not entitled to claim.

False Deductions- Claimed false or exaggerated deductions to reduce their taxable income.

Multiple Filings- Filed more than one tax return to receive fraudulent refunds.

Organized Crime- Member of a group of persons who engaged in illegal enterprises such as drugs, gambling, loansharking, extortion, or laundering illegal money through a legitimate business.

Unsubstantiated Income- Reported false income from an unverifiable source in order to get a false refund.

Earned Income Credit- Claimed Earned Income Credit which they were not entitled to receive. They may have reported income they did not earn or claimed children they were not entitled to claim.

Public/Political Corruption- Public official or politician violated laws against using their position illegally for personal gain.

False/Altered Documents- Changed documents, such as a W-2 or Form 1099, or created fake documents to substantiate a false refund.

Catalog Number 47872E www.irs.gov Form 3949-A (Rev. 3-2014)

Page 3

Unreported Income- Received cash or other untraceable payments, such as goods or services, and did not report the income.

Narcotics Income- Received income from illegal drugs or narcotics.

Kickback- Received illegal payments or kickbacks in exchange for referring the business of a government agency or other business towards a company or for influencing business decisions that result in part of the payment for the business received or service performed being returned to the person who made the referral.

Wagering/Gambling- Did not report income received from wagering or gambling.

Failure to Withhold Tax- Individual or business did not withhold legally owed taxes from income paid to their employee(s), such as Social Security or Medicare taxes. Example: A business treated employees as independent contractors and issued Forms 1099, with no tax withheld, instead of a W-2.

Failure to File Return- Individual or business has not filed returns legally due. Failure to Pay Tax- Individual or business has not paid taxes legally due. Other- Describe in 5.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:03 AM, JoAnne M Denison <jdenison@surfree.com> wrote:

very good.  I’ll send you a copy of the $21 million tax lien my client got

I’d like to do a post on this to encourage others that have been ripped off by guardians, etc.
do you have the statute numbers too?  otherwise I will look them up for a “tax lien post.”
good job.  the FBI never got al capone on his string of felonies, but they did get him on tax evasion and then he was done

joanne

 

—–Original Message—–
From: dean loren

Sent: Mar 1, 2016 10:05 PM
To: JoAnne M Denison , Eliot Bernstein
Subject: Re: IRS – COMPLAINT?

filed form IRS 3949-a for fraud against Executor and Attorney for Executor

about 706 filings being fraudulent
whole list
false exemption
false deceptions
organized crime
unsubstantiated income
public/politacl corruption
false /altered Documents
unreported dinocme
kickback
other
sen it in today

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:07 PM, JoAnne M Denison <jdenison@surfree.com> wrote:

Yep, that’s a good one. We should do a show on how to get these guardians, GALs and other court miscreants with investigative work and reporting this to the IRS.

the tax rate for evasion and criminal activity is 50%. for every month a filing and tax is owed, the interest is 2% up to 100%.  that means 100% of what is stolen would go to the IRS.

Then there is the doctrine of “constructive receipt”  in one of the earliest reported cases, man was a union steward for a very large union.  He was out one day and wanted to buy something for himself and his family, and he only had union checks on him.  He used a union check and the IRS got the tax court to rule that by doing so, all the income from the Union for that year was taxable to him and he was liable for that income plus interest, fees, fines and penalties because apparently the union never paid their income tax on time and had a bunch of bogus deductions (fancy lunches, etc.)   plus, I think they also lost their 501-c-3 status for cooking the books that year.

That means that all criminals, ie, attorneys with a fiduciary duty, by means of a 42 USC sec 371 conspiracy are liable under this doctrine too.

You have to call or visit the IRS offices.  Often they want a TIN or EIN but maybe you can fudge that or call up the lawyers and get their TIN or EIN by saying you’re an accountant for a client and you need it.

try to get their fax number or email so you can send all the documents and a synopsis of your assertions and the laws that were broken.  I have a good list on my blog for gship statutory common violations

good luck

joanne

—–Original Message—–
From: dean loren
Sent: Mar 1, 2016 9:39 AM
To: JoAnne M Denison
Subject: IRS – COMPLAINT?

I’D LIKE TO MAKE ONE

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE PROCESS
AND I’LL LOOK UP THE STEPS
I NEED TO FILE AGAINST THE EXECUTOR
FOR NEVER CREATING A TRUST FOR 30 YEARS
AND BILLING THE ESTATE WITH THE LAWYER
DEAN

 

From Ken Ditkowsky–Dr. Fine’s revelations indicate more tax fraud/evasion

Why don’t the authorities collect?

To: Eric Holder <askdoj@usdoj.gov>, “FBI- ( (” <civilrights.cv@ic.fbi.gov>, Chicago FBI <chicago@ic.fbi.gov>,…..
Subject: Fw: Justice Served with Andy Ostrowski – disciplined lawyer series – lawyers for judicial reform
Date: Mar 1, 2016 2:53 PM
If the link that is forwarded to you is 50% accurate a very serious crime has been committed by the California authorities.    American Judicial System for Sale: Bribes and Corruption now the Norm
 Similar charges have been made as to Ill, Ind, Fla, Ohio, Pa, Col, etc in relationship to the Guardianship frauds (elder cleansing).     The corruption is costing Federal , State, and local governments billions of dollars and the total disregard and non-enforcement of the Rule of Law is disreputable, disingenuous, and pernicious.     
 
If lawyers are intimidated and punished for exposing corruption, expect that corruption will be a way of life here in America, and the lost of liberty for everyone is not far off!
Even though lawyers disciplinary commissions have openly and notoriously participated in a cover up flaunting 18 USCA 242, 371, 1341 and 4 it does not appear that the miscreants (including Jerome Larkin of Illinois) have to worry as they are ‘special citizens’ for whom the law does not apply.    AN HONEST INVESTIGATION IS REQUIRED!

Today on internet radio–Dr. Richard Fine

Please do not miss this show tonight. Dr. Fine is a hero and a lawyer for all lawyers to emmulate.  He is a real Man for All Seasons (review the movie if you have forgotten about it, generally on Netflix and Youtube
Subject: Tuesday, March 2nd, 2016 on Justice Served with Andy Ostrowski, Guest – Dr. Richard Fine
Date: Mar 1, 2016 12:40 PM
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2016 on Justice Served, 6:00pm est. on justiceserved.online, or twigscaferadio.com.  I trust this is a show no one will want to miss.  I believe most will want to know why this injustice was perpetrated upon Mr. Fine!  What was basis of the corruption attorney Fine exposed and what was the issue over which the alleged illegal payments to some Los Angeles County Superior Court judges taking place for?  Truly, a “must hear!”
Via Andy Ostrowski :
Tonight on Justice Served – Dr. Richard Fine
Join me tonight for an interview with a heroic man, and now disbarred lawyer, Richard Fine to hear his story about how his involvement in exposing corruption in California, including the payment of money illegally to Los Angeles County and Superior Court judges, which ended up with him serving 18 months in jail without criminal charges as a veritable political prisoner. He now has devoted his professional career to national judicial reform.
Campaign for Judicial Integrity
Introduction to the Campaign for Judicial Integrity.
campaignforjudicialintegrity.org

Introduction to the Campaign for Judicial Integrity.
campaignforjudicialintegrity.org

Tonight–Joanne Denison on Dean Loren’s show Frank Report

Tonight at 11 pm CST, midnight EST.

http://www.americanvoiceradio.com

Click on the Frank Report, 2nd show of day.

We will be discussing the Mary G Sykes Probate case and guardianships in general and I understand there will be chat room so you can post questions regarding guardianship and this case and any other case you may have.

Dean will then send me the mp3 file and I will put it on the blog.

You may email questions to me in advance at joanne@justice4every1.com

 

happy listening

JoAnne

 

Who robs the Elderly Most in their Retirement?

http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/JulietteFairley/Probate-Court-Elderly-Retirement/2016/02/26/id/716368/

The Probate Court’s Dirty Secret That’s Robbing the Elderly in Retirement

Read more: The Probate Court’s Dirty Secret That’s Robbing the Elderly in Retirement
Important: Can you afford to Retire?

Kathleen Dunn’s mother Jacqueline Scott was placed under the care of a professional fiduciary in Florida after a sibling filed in probate court to be her guardian. When a Pinellas County Judge began to restrict visitation with her then 82-year-old mother, Dunn filed a complaint.

“I was under the impression that we lived in America and this is the land of the free but I had no idea that people were being legally kidnapped to be robbed of all their assets and Constitutional rights,” Dunn said.

Dunn is among a rising number of baby boomers and Gen Xers involved in expensive custody battles concerning their World War II generation family members who are expected to collectively pass along $41 trillion in inheritance money. However, family disputes and professional guardians sanctioned by courts nationwide stand to intercept this transference of wealth.
“Probate judges are increasingly handing over an innocent elderly person’s health, wealth and life to a total stranger whose only focus is often just to take and make as much money from the family as possible,” says Dr. Sam Sugar, founder Americans Against Abusive Probate Guardianship, an advocacy group.

In most cases, courts appoint family members as guardian but they are increasingly turning to an emerging cottage industry of professional guardians who are not related to their wards and usually work in for-profit firms and whose fees are paid from the assets of the person they’re taking care of. But several reports note a rising number of allegations of financial exploitation.

The courts of 65 percent of state judges and court staff have taken action against at least one guardian for “misconduct, malfeasance, or serious failure to fulfill their obligations” in the previous three years, according to a 2014 survey by the Administrative Conference of the United States. Some 60 percent of court personnel did not review credit or financial reports on prospective guardians.
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“The best way to prevent a guardianship is to have the family of the incapacitated person enter into some sort of agreement as to how things will be handled from that point forward,” said Don Ford, an attorney in Houston whose legal strategy liberated 97-year-old Ann Walton James, whom Titus County Judge Brian Lee placed under professional guardianship.

Spelling out wishes in a trust, power of attorney or will can avoid disputes in some cases but even this foresight is not fool proof.

“Estate planning can be very useful in preventing or delaying guardianships, however, this will not work if the person or family member you have designated to serve as power of attorney or trustee end up abusing their authority,” Ford said.

It’s often rivalry among family members that creates chaos in the lives of the elderly who may be losing their memory or experiencing the symptoms of early onset of dementia.

Mary Rose, 43, has been required to pay $50 an hour to a monitor to supervise weekly 2-hour visits with her 83-year-old mother Evelyn Ann Nabity due to a court order signed by Nebraska Judge Darryl R. Lowe. That’s because Rose says Robert Nabity, a sibling, applied to be guardian in probate court and won.
“Our mother had given me medical power of attorney in 1998 and now I have limited access to see her and no authority to make medical decisions for her,” said Rose, an R.N. who lives in Grand Island, Nebraska.

The elderly Ms. Nabity remains locked up in an Alzheimer’s facility in Omaha.

“The biggest source of abuse comes from someone who ends up taking their parents’ or spouse’s money for their own personal use instead of using it solely for the benefit of the incapacitated parent or partner,” said Ford.

Juliette Fairley is an author, lecturer and TV host based in New York. To read more of her work, Click Here Now.

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Gloria Sykes on TwiggsCafe Radio with Andy Ostrowski

Joanne M Denison's avatarMaryGSykes.com

From:Andy Ostrowski <ajo@bsolaw.com>

To: ‘kenneth ditkowsky’ <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com>, ‘Gloria Jean SYKES’ <gloami@msn.com>

Cc: “‘j. d.'” <jdit@aol.com>, ……

Subject: Gloria Sykes on Justice Served – Elder Abuse and Guardianship Reform

Date: Feb 25, 2016 11:22 AM

Tune in tonight at 6 p.m. eastern time (5 central) for the interview of Gloria Jean Sykes, which provides the back story to the great interviews by disciplined lawyers Ken Ditkowsky and Joanne Denison covered last week about the Mary Sykes guardianship situation.

http://www.justiceserved.online/

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Gloria Sykes on TwiggsCafe Radio with Andy Ostrowski

From: Andy Ostrowski <ajo@bsolaw.com>

To: ‘kenneth ditkowsky’ <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com>, ‘Gloria Jean SYKES’ <gloami@msn.com>

Cc: “‘j. d.'” <jdit@aol.com>, ……

Subject: Gloria Sykes on Justice Served – Elder Abuse and Guardianship Reform

Date: Feb 25, 2016 11:22 AM

Tune in tonight at 6 p.m. eastern time (5 central) for the interview of Gloria Jean Sykes, which provides the back story to the great interviews by disciplined lawyers Ken Ditkowsky and Joanne Denison covered last week about the Mary Sykes guardianship situation.

 

http://www.justiceserved.online/

 

From Ken Ditkowsky –Critical internet radio programs covered by 1st Amendment

Date: Feb 25, 2016 11:18 AM
If we focus solely on the elder cleansing cases (and those related thereto) the future looks bleak as the amounts of money that is available to be garnered by the cadre of corrupt judges, lawyers, judicial officials is over whelming.   With the election coming up the political elite look to the nursing and sheltered care facilities and realize that if there are 360 resident residing in a facility by nursing home (or sheltered care) operator can deliver 360 votes in the primary to the operators favorite candidate and in the general election even a few more.  (Death in some venues does not disenfranchise).
However, in a case that parallels the Disciplinary proceedings that many lawyers who have exercised their First Amendment Rights have had to endure, the Texas Court recognized the fact the First Amendment is important and no matter how expedient it may be for a politically corrupt prosecutor, being elected (or appointed) as a prosecutor still limits his/her authority to the RULE OF LAW and the Bill of Rights.
To reiterate it has been and is my position that:   Andy has an absolute right to mentor a radio program wherein his guests are critical of certain favored interests.  Lawyers like Jeffery had a right to represent their client’s interests vigorously even if a sundry judge is offended.  Lawyers whose skin color is too dark for Jerome Larkin can complain of obvious conflicts of interest of certain protected judges.   I can demand an HONEST investigation; and JoAnne can join with me in the call for an Honest investigation and even publish the call and practices that she and public deem corrupt in her blog – MARYGSYKES.
In a similar manner, Rick Perry as the governor of Texas can veto appropriations for a favorite political person who got caught drunk driving without having to face First Amendment violating inappropriate criminal prosecutions.   See:
The violation of Governor Perry First Amendment rights might now be pecuniarily remediable = as he is part of the political elite and he was the Governor of the State; however, they are remediable at the ballot box ****.
The violation of the rights of Lanre, Jeffery, Andy, ***** not been tinged by partisan politics (as far as we know) are more serious as Jerome Larkin and his counterparts are using the State mechanism (Lawyer Disciplinary Commissions) to advance their own economic and political interests.    They are also more serious as the lawyers affected have to seek remedy in ‘wired’ proceedings in which the decision is not going to be on the merits, but whether or not certain favored individuals pecuniary interests are served.
The unlevel playing field is so obvious.   If a lawyer were to attempt to argue that Dred Scott was the law of the land, disciplinary proceedings would commence first in the courtroom and them before a disciplinary commission.   The reason:  Lawyers are required by their oaths and rule to NOT MISREPRESENT THE LAW and to be candid with the trier of fact.   HOWEVER, if anyone with familiarity with the English language were to view the documents that the Larkin administered IARDC submitted to the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois he/she would note that Larkin argues that the Alvarez case is authority for Larkin’s assault on the First Amendment.  Unfortunately, Larkin has committed the cardinal sin – he not only is misrepresenting the decision, but he adopts one of the argument specifically rejected by the SCOTUS.   The Supreme Court did not hold Larkin in contempt, nor did it suggest that disciplinary proceedings commence against him for his ethically reprehensible conduct – it ignored the strict prohibition in Alvarez, Sawyer, ****** and suspended JoAnne for three years.
In Florida ***** there has been similar results.
However, there is hope — Governor Perry faced up to the Jerome Larkin look a like in Texas and the Court stood up to be counted in favor of Due Process, the Rule of Law, the Bill of Rights and most importantly the First Amendment.   Such is a victory for all of us!
The Chicago Tribune (in its second section) today carried an article pointing out that the government was lax in enforcement of laws protecting the Nation from health care fraud.   I mention this because such as not been a secret.   Seth Gillman’s indictment has been news for over a year and his plea of guilty very significant – but the Tribune (and the rest of the media) have been silent.   Even the Omnicare 150 million plus fine and subsequent sale for 12.4 billion dollars has been almost an open secret.   The Sykes and Gore case inspite of their horror garnered only silence *****
Once against – -however, it is progress that the Tribune is acknowledging the woeful enforcement of laws relating to health care fraud by our government.   Maybe a tribune reporter and the newspaper would be induced to wander over to the Daley Center, get out on the 12th floor and pull file 09 P 4585 and observe – no summons as required by statute served, no prior 14 days notice, no hearing, no compliance with the law – however, three million dollars plus stolen!    (He might even ask why there were two guardian ad litem in an estate which had an inventory well under $100,000.00).   The Alice Gore case *******
Why the cover=up?
If you don’t know, I certainly and not going to tell you!!!

Obama care fraught with fraud?

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Watchdog Finds Billions in Possible Fraudulent Obamacare Payments

While you have noted on this blog that there are schemers and scammers all over the place in health care, making it about 70% fraud, the Obama administration has recovered billions in health care fraud through a joint task force between HHS and the FBI, so much more needs to be done.

We can’t have universal health care with all of the fraud out there.  Premiums are not affordable for most US citizens.  They are way to high at $1000 to $1200 per month for most families.  Health care fraud has to end.

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Obama care fraught with fraud?

Watchdog Finds Billions in Possible Fraudulent Obamacare Payments

While you have noted on this blog that there are schemers and scammers all over the place in health care, making it about 70% fraud, the Obama administration has recovered billions in health care fraud through a joint task force between HHS and the FBI, so much more needs to be done.

We can’t have universal health care with all of the fraud out there.  Premiums are not affordable for most US citizens.  They are way to high at $1000 to $1200 per month for most families.  Health care fraud has to end.


Posted by Alexander Hendrie on Wednesday, February 24th, 2016, 12:49 PM PERMALINK


The federal government has failed to properly monitor enrollee eligibility for Obamacare, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). As a result, the government has made billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidy payments to individuals that may have been committing fraud.

“When the government wastes money, it is wasting OUR money. It is cutting OUR pay. It is damaging OUR lives,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.  “And the Obama administration is treating us with contempt.”

As the report notes, the system used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) relies on data sent by three government agencies – the IRS, SSA, and DHS – to check eligibility for Obamacare. However, the system used by CMS is unable to verify many inconsistencies in the data.

This inability to properly verify enrollment has meant billions of dollars have been sent out to enrollees without verifying whether the applicants were fraudulent. As the report notes:

“According to GAO analysis of CMS data, about 431,000 applications from the 2014 enrollment period, with about $1.7 billion in associated subsidies for 2014, still had unresolved inconsistencies as of April 2015—several months after close of the coverage year.”

While CMS has information that could shed light on fraud, it has not developed any procedure to utilize it. As the report notes:

“CMS foregoes information that could suggest potential program issues or potential vulnerabilities to fraud, as well as information that might be useful for enhancing program management.”

These latest findings should not be surprising. Time and time again, watchdogs have sounded the alarm over Obamacare exchange verification and controls.

  • An auditor’s report examining Minnesota’s Obamacare exchange found the exchange enrolled more than 100,000 individuals who were ineligible for the program. In all, the audit estimated an error rate of close to 50 percent, and the state overpaid up to $271 million over the five-month period that was analyzed by auditors.
  • A December 2015 report by the Health and Human Services Inspector General (HHS OIG) found that CMS relied entirely on data from health insurers to verify whether enrollees had paid their premiums and were eligible. However, this data was completely insufficient – insurers provided payment information on an aggregate rather than enrollee-by-enrollee basis, making verification all but impossible.

 

  • A October 23, 2015 report by GAO found that Obamacare exchanges (both state and federal) were failing to verify key enrollment information of applicants including Social Security numbers, household income, and citizenship.

 

  • A September 1, 2015 report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) found that Obamacare exchanges are failing to provide adequate enrollment information to the IRS for proper payment and verification of tax credits.

 

  • A August 2015 report by HHS OIG found that the federal exchange is failing to verify Social Security numbers, citizenship, and household income of Obamacare applicants. As a result, the exchange is unable to verify whether applicants are properly receiving tax credits.
  • A July 16, 2015 audit by GAO found that 11 of 12 fake ‘test’ applicants received coverage for the entire 2014 coverage period despite many using fraudulent documents, and others providing no documentation at all. From these 11 applicants alone, Healthcare.gov paid $30,000 in tax credits.

 

  • A June 16, 2015 report released by the HHS OIG found that $2.8 billion worth of Obamacare subsidies and payments had been made in 2014 without verification.

 

  • A June 10, 2015 TIGTA report found the IRS failed to properly administer nearly $11 billion in Obamacare tax credits.

 

  • A May 21, 2015 report by TIGTA found that the IRS failed to test Obamacare processing and verification IT until a week before the filing season began.

 

Read more: http://www.atr.org/watchdog-finds-billions-possible-fraudulent-obamacare-payments#ixzz4196oU18K
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From Mark Hexum–a letter for every politician!

11123 N. Rhonda Way
Dunlap, IL 61525
mgh0119@gmail.com
309-253-9289

February 21, 2016
Dear Presidential Candidate,
The family court system is a $50 billion dollar business where thousands of lives of fathers, mothers and children are destroyed and in many cases ended because of the corruption in the system. For family court victims, there is no recourse. Appeals seldom work, judges protect corrupt attorneys, judges protect corrupt judges, attorney and judicial disciplinary commissions do nothing and the media will not get involved because they say family court issues are “he said/she said issues.” These horrors are not about “he said/she said”, they are about constitutional rights, civil liberties/rights, children, human beings, corruption, judicial abuse of power, judicial misconduct, judicial immunity and money. If an attorney has the courage to challenge and report a corrupt judge, they are suspended or disbarred. Since 2001, 60,000 US soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq to protect the Constitutional rights and freedoms of US citizens. Family Court judges violate those rights daily and no one does anything. There is more attention and public outcry for abused dogs and cats than the human beings abused in the US Family Court system!

I am the Family Civil Liberties Union Illinois Chapter President. I am working with a growing group of IL family court victims to drive judicial accountability. Our thinking is if judges are accountable for their crimes and violating the US Constitution, they will better control the corrupt attorneys that operate in their courts. Specifically we are working to:

1. Restructure the Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board so it protects citizens violated by judicial misconduct rather than propagating corruption through protection of corrupt judges.
2. Repeal the Confidentiality of Judicial Complaint Proceedings
3. Repeal of Absolute Judicial Immunity

Judges, particularly family court judges do as they please and there is no recourse for family court victims. I am including my family court horror story and those of Lisa Nadig (Chicago) and Dominick Tomasello (Chicago). To get a good overview of the family court problem I suggest reading Michael Volpe’s book, “Bullied to Death: Chris Mackney’s Kafkaesque Divorce”. Chris Mackney spent years fighting the corrupt Virginia family Court system, lost his children, multiple jobs and his will to fight any longer, so he blew his head off. Included in the book are countless other family court horror stories.
On behalf of Illinois family court victims, I am pleading with you to make family court reform an issue in your campaign. There are tens of thousands across the US that are fighting for family court reform.

Thank you.
With respect,

Mark G. Hexum
Illinois Chapter President
Family Civil Liberties Union (fclu.org)

Sacramento County Court article tells saga of bribes, clout and fixers

http://sacramentocountyfamilycourtnews.blogspot.com/p/temporary-judges.html

 

I think these are scenarios we call all relate to.  Note this is a watchdog website and not mega media

RACKETEERING-HONEST SERVICES FRAUD

Sacramento County Family Law Court Operates as RICO Racketeering Enterprise, Charge Whistleblowers

Hyperlinks throughout this special investigative report link to whistleblower leaked documents and other original source material.
Judge William Shubb, Judge Edmund Brennan, Supreme Court, Corruption, Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Mariano Cuellar, Ming Chin, Carol Corrigan, Leondra Kruger, Goodwin Liu,  Kathryn Werdegar, Judge Garland Burrell Jr, Judge Carolyn Delaney, , Judge Morrison England Jr, Judge Gregory Hollows, Judge John Mendez, Judge Kendall Newman, Judge Troy Nunley, Judge Allison Claire, Judge Dale Drozd, Judge Lawrence Karlton, Judge Kimberly Mueller, Judge Kevin Culhane - Judge Vance Raye - Judge James Mize
Whistleblowers allege that the family law division of
Sacramento Superior Court operates as a racketeering
enterprise similar to the Kids for Cash scheme uncovered
in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

The family court division of Sacramento Superior Court is controlled and operated by an illegal parallel government structure made up of local divorce lawyers who also work as part-time judges, court employees and clerks, and full-time judges, according to whistleblower leaked documents and court watchdogs.

The shadow government is without the same transparency and accountabilityrequired of legitimate Judicial Branch agencies, and meets the legal definitionof a criminal racketeering enterprise, whistleblowers charge.

The alleged criminal organization reportedly has operated for more than 20 years under the direction of long-controversial Judge Peter McBrien, who has a prior Sacramento County criminal conviction and two misconduct convictions by the state Commission on Judicial Performance for violations of state judicial ethics laws.

Court watchdogs assert that many current and former Sacramento County judges have direct or indirect ties to the corruption, including James Mize, Matthew Gary, Jaime Roman, Thadd Blizzard, Vance Raye, Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Thomas Cecil and Dave Sterling.

Some judges were active participants or effectively facilitated the racketeering as accessorieswhile others – including virtually every judge assigned to the family law division over the last 20 years – knew or should have known that systemic lawbreaking,institutionalized socioeconomic bias, and criminal activity were occurring, yet turned ablind eye and failed to report the misconduct to oversight authorities, whistleblowers charge.

Judge Peter McBrien quietly retired in 2014 and, due to his prior CJP misconduct convictions, is prohibited from continuing to work as a retired judge, according to formerCJP prosecutor and current Lake County Superior Court Judge Andrew Blum.

But, using a loophole in state law and his local court administration contacts, before he retired McBrien arranged to be immediately rehired as a court commissioner by personal friend and Sacramento Superior Court Presiding Judge Robert Hight, according to a court employee whistleblower. Currently, McBrien remains on the bench in virtually the same role he maintained as a judge.

As detailed later in this report, the alleged corruption is so pervasive that the family law division of Sacramento Superior Court was featured in the 2014 documentary filmDivorce Corp. The movie documented family court corruption throughout the United States and designated Sacramento County as one of the most corrupt family courts in the nation.

Rubber-Stamped Court Orders

Judge William B. Shubb, Judge Edmund F. Brennan, 3rd District Court of Appeal – Sacramento Justice Vance W. Raye – Justice Jonathan K. Renner - Justice Coleman A. Blease – Justice Ronald B. Robie – Justice William J. Murray Jr. – Justice George W. Nicolson – Justice M. Kathleen Butz – Justice Elena J. Duarte – Justice Harry E. Hull Jr. – Justice Louis R. Mauro – Justice Andrea Lynn Hoch – Justice Jonathan K. Renner Third District Court of Appeal CaliforniaJudge Garland E. Burrell Jr, Judge Carolyn K. Delaney, , Judge Morrison C. England Jr, Judge Gregory G. Hollows, Judge John A. Mendez, Judge Kendall J. Newman, Judge Troy L. Nunley, Judge Allison Claire, Judge Dale A. Drozd, Judge Lawrence K. Karlton, Judge Kimberly J. Mueller, Judge Kevin Culhane, Judge Vance Raye, Judge Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye
The 2014 documentary film Divorce Corp designated Sacramento County as
one of the most corrupt divorce and family law courts in the United States.

Court whistleblowers assert that divorce lawyers in the organization receivepreferential treatment, “kickbacks,” and other forms of compensationfrom judges, court employees and clerksbecause they volunteer to work as part-time judges and run the family court settlement conference program on behalf of the court.

The kickbacks usually consist of “rubber-stamped” court ordersissued when the attorneys file motions while representing clients in court.

Court records show that the reciprocal quid pro quo agreement also includes the rubber-stamped denial, and even summary denial of motions filed by opposing parties, and especially unrepresented opposing parties who are indigent or disabled, or both.

The orders consistently are contrary to established law, and the rulings go far beyond the boundaries of, and cannot be attributed to the exercise of judicial discretion. The orders themselves often are deliberately structured without facts, law, or findings, effectively making any potential appeal futile under two legal principles called the “doctrine of implied findings,” and the “presumption of correctness.”

The orders clearly are illegal as a matter of law, according to court reform advocates, “outsider” attorneys, and the law practice reference publications used by judges and lawyers. SFCN has posted examples of the orders online at Scribd and other document publishing sites. Order links are provided throughout this report.

Court case files also indicate that in some cases, judges simply ignore the requests in motions filed by pro pers, or even collude with judge pro tem attorneys to block the motions from being heard.

Shooting Fish in a Barrel

3rd District Court of Appeal – Sacramento –Vance Raye - Cole Blease – Ronald Robie – William  Murray Jr. – George Nicolson – Kathleen Butz – Elena Duarte – Harry Hull – Louis Mauro – Andrea Hoch – Jonathan Renner Third District Court of Appeal California    Arthur Scotland – Justice Arthur G. Scotland Judge William B. Shubb, Judge Edmund F. Brennan, Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr, Judge Carolyn K. Delaney, , Judge Morrison C. England Jr, Judge Gregory G. Hollows, Judge John A. Mendez, Judge Kendall J. Newman, Judge Troy L. Nunley, Judge Allison Claire, Judge Dale A. Drozd, Judge Lawrence K. Karlton, Judge Kimberly J. Mueller, Judge Kevin Culhane
The Sacramento County Bar Association openly
acknowledges its unorthodox relationship with
the family law division of Sacramento Superior Court.

Statistical case sampling data compiled by Sacramento Family Court News reveals that, when compared to other counties, Sacramento County has a significantly higher proportion of family court divorce cases where only one side has an attorney, despite state lawsmandating a “level playing field” – meaning both sides have a lawyer – where the marital community income and assets make legal representation economically feasible.

An important component of the alleged racketeering scheme is keeping pro per parties disadvantaged by preventing them from obtaining counsel. Oral and written requests for attorney fee funds are one of the most often denied, or ignored, motions made by pro pers.

Whistleblowers emphasize that it is hard tooverstate the significance of this specific benefit provided under the reciprocal agreement between judges and judge pro tem attorneys. Divorce lawyers liken winning cases against pro per parties to shooting fish in a barrel. Both state and federal courts have long mocked and derided attorneys who represent themselves in court as having a “fool for a client,” especially in emotionally charged divorce cases.

Published decisional law makes clear that if lawyers – who have formal education and training in the law – are fools for attempting to represent themselves in court, indigent and disabled family court pro pers with no education or training in the law have virtually no chance of prevailing against an experienced family law attorney.

Yet this manifestly unfair power imbalance goes unacknowledged, and is in fact facilitatedby many Sacramento Family Court judges, according to whistleblower leaked court records and court reform advocates.

Racketeering Scheme Targets Divorce Cases Where Only One Side Has a Lawyer  

Most of the demonstrablyunlawful orders are issued against indigent, or financially disadvantaged “pro per” parties without an attorney. Manypro per litigants – who make up over 70 percent of court users – also are disabled.

In most cases, pro pers – who have little or no knowledge of family law – are unaware that the orders issued against them are illegal. In addition, court clerks and employees are trained or encouraged to intentionally, and illegally mislead unrepresented parties about their appeal rights. Pro pers who do attempt to file an appeal are forced to navigate a gauntlet of unlawful obstructions erected by court employees and trial court judges, and most eventually give up.

Further handicapping pro pers, when representing clients in court judge pro tem lawyers are allowed to obstruct an opposing parties’ court access and ability to file documents through the court-sanctioned misuse of vexatious litigant law and Family Code case management law, according to whistleblowers and court records. The illegal litigation tactic effectively deprives pro per litigants of their constitutional right of access to the courts, a violation of federal law.

In exchange for acting as sworn temporary judges, operating the settlement program and reducing the caseload and workload of judges and court employees, the attorneys also receive preferential trial scheduling, an unlawful “emolument, gratuity or reward” prohibited by Penal Code § 94.

The ultimate consequences of the systemic divorce court corruption include one-sided divisions of community property, illegal child custody arrangements and the deprivation of parental rights, and unlawful child and spousal support terms.

Court reform advocates also assert that the racketeering enterprise enables rampant fee churning and unjust enrichment by judge pro tem divorce lawyers, results in pro perfinancial devastation, homelessness, and imprisonment, and has caused, or contributed toat least two child deaths.

Years of illegal, pay-to-play child custody orders have resulted in the formation of several Sacramento-based court reform and oversight organizations, including Fathers 4 Justice,California Protective Parents Association, and the Family Court Accountability Coalition. The same family court watchdog group phenomenon has not occurred in any other county in the state.

3rd District Court of Appeal – Sacramento Justice Vance W. Raye – Justice Jonathan K. Renner - Justice Coleman A. Blease – Justice Ronald B. Robie – Justice William J. Murray Jr. – Justice George W. Nicolson – Justice M. Kathleen Butz – Justice Elena J. Duarte – Justice Harry E. Hull Jr. – Justice Louis R. Mauro – Justice Andrea Lynn Hoch – Third District Court of Appeal California -Elaine M. Howle California State Auditor - Bureau of State Audits Elaine Howle - Victoria B. Henley Director Chief Counsel Commission on Judicial Performance – Steven Jahr Administrative Director of the Courts - Phillip J. Jelicich Principal Auditor Bureau of State Audits - Janice M. Brickley Legal Advisor to Commissioners Commission on Judicial Performance - Judicial Council and Court Leadership Services Division Jody Patel Chief of Staff - Doug D. Cordiner Chief Deputy State Auditor Bureau of State Audits - Bradford L. Battson Senior Attorney III Commission on Judicial Performance - Judicial and Court Operations Services Division Curtis L. Child Chief Operating Officer – Donna L. Neville Staff Counsel IV Bureau of State Audits- Sei Shimoguchi Senior Attorney III Commission on Judicial Performance - Judicial and Court Administrative Services Division Curt Soderlund Chief Administrative Officer –
During three days of sworn testimony at his Commission on Judicial Performance misconduct prosecution, Judge Peter McBrien inadvertently revealed aspects of an alleged RICO racketeering enterprise operating in the Sacramento County family court system.

Reducing the Caseload and Workload of Judges and Court Staff in Exchange for Kickbacks

 
Supreme Court of California – Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye – Associate Justice Carol A. Corrigan – Associate Justice Joyce L. Kennard – Associate Justice Kathryn M. Werdegar – Associate Justice Ming W. Chin – Associate Justice Marvin R. Baxter – Associate Justice Goodwin H. Liu – Associate Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuellar – Associate Justice Leondra Kruger - Justice Cantil-Sakauye –California Supreme Court - Elaine M. Howle State Auditor Bureau of State Audits – Phillip J. Jelicich Principal Auditor Bureau of State Audits – Doug D. Cordiner Chief Deputy State Auditor Bureau of State Audits – Donna L. Neville Staff Counsel IV Bureau of State Audits - Victoria B. Henley Director Chief Counsel Commission on Judicial Performance – Janice M. Brickley Legal Advisor to Commissioners Commission on Judicial Performance – Bradford L. Battson Senior Attorney III Commission on Judicial Performance – Sei Shimoguchi Senior Attorney III Commission on Judicial Performance- Janice M. Brickley Legal Advisor to Commissioners Commission on Judicial Performance
The 2014 documentary film Divorce Corp exposed court
corruption throughout the United States and designated
Sacramento County as the worst-of-the-worst.

One objective of the allegedly illegal public-private partnership is to significantly reduce the caseload, and workload of full-time judges by having private sector lawyers – instead of judges or court staff – operate the settlement program, according to watchdogs.

At the settlement conferences, judge pro tem attorneys pressure divorcing couples to settle cases so they won’t use the trial court services, including law and motion hearings, ordinarily required to resolve a contested divorce.

In many cases, two lawyers – one acting as a temporary judge – with social and professional ties team up against an unrepresented pro per to compel one-sided settlement terms. Accounts of coercive and deceptive tactics are common.

In sworn testimony during his judicial misconduct prosecution by the Commission on Judicial Performance, Judge McBrien inadvertently revealed that an incredible 90 percent of cases assigned to his courtroom settled. “And so I, frankly, have a very light calendar on law and motion mornings,” the judge added.

Under the quid pro quo agreement, in exchange for reducing the workload of judges and court staff, as opportunities arise the temporary judge attorneys are provided reciprocalkickbacks, gratuities, or emoluments when representing clients in court. The issuance and receipt of the reciprocal benefits violates several state and federal criminal, and civil laws.

Reciprocal benefits include the issuance of demonstrably illegal court orders that have ignored, and even authorized criminal conduct by judge pro tem attorneys and their clients, including criminal child abduction.

In one case, a judge ordered the illegal arrest and assault of a disabled pro per to benefit the opposing, part-time judge attorney. A court employee whistleblower leaked acourtroom security video of the incident. The judge pro tem lawyer subsequently was caught on court reporter transcript defending the judge and lying about the arrest and assault, portraying the disabled victim as being at fault.

The consistent, statistically impossible in-court success rate of judge pro tem attorneys has provided them prominence, client referrals, wealth, and a substantial monopoly on the Sacramento County divorce and family law business. Whistleblowers point out that this benefit of the alleged criminal organization also implicates consumer protection andantitrust laws, including the California Unfair Business Practices Act.

Racketeering Scheme Immunizes Members from Government Oversight and Accountability

 
Supreme Court of California – Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye – Associate Justice Carol A. Corrigan – Associate Justice Joyce L. Kennard – Associate Justice Kathryn M. Werdegar – Associate Justice Ming W. Chin – Associate Justice Marvin R. Baxter – Associate Justice Goodwin H. Liu – Associate Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuellar – Associate Justice Leondra Kruger - Justice Cantil-Sakauye –California Supreme Court =Hon. Jaime R. Roman – Hon. Matthew J. Gary – Hon. Thadd A. Blizzard – Hon. James M. Mize – Hon. Peter J. McBrien – Hon. Kevin R. Culhane – Hon. Laurie M. Earl – Hon. Steve White – Hon. Bunmi O. Awoniyi – Hon. Eugene L. Balonon - Scott P. Harmon Commissioner -  Danny L. Haukedalen Commissoner – Hon. Jane Ure – domestic violence – Hon. Sharon A. Lueras - child support – child custody – spousal support - Sacramento County Superior Court – Family Court Sacramento -  Judge Jaime R. Roman – Judge Matthew J. Gary – Judge Thadd A. Blizzard – Judge James M. Mize – Judge Peter J. McBrien – Judge Kevin R. Culhane – Judge Laurie M. Earl – Judge Steve White – Judge Bunmi O. Awoniyi – Judge Eugene L. Balonon - Scott P. Harmon Commissioner -  Danny L. Haukedalen Commissoner – Judge Jane Ure
Whistleblowers claim that Sacramento Family Court corruption results in the misuse of federal funds, deprives the public of the federally protected right to honest government services, and deprives unrepresented,disabled, and financially disadvantaged court users of their civil rights.

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The quid pro quo arrangement also involves what whistleblowers assert is a reciprocal protection racket that conceals the organization from discovery by law enforcement agencies and state oversight authorities, including the Commission on Judicial Performance, responsible for judge misconduct, and the State Bar Association, responsible for attorney accountability and discipline.

Case audits conducted by SFCN show that judge pro tem attorneys routinely violate state law, court rules, and attorney ethics rules, but are never reported to the State Bar, or assessed fines, penalties or “sanctions” by full-time judges as required by state law.

Pro pers who attempt to report judge pro tem attorney misconduct to the State Bar are told they need a court order from a judge before a disciplinary investigation against an opposing attorney can take place. There are no known instances where a judge issued such an order.

Court records leaked by whistleblowers also indicate that the under quid pro quo agreement, judges effectively shield attorneys from criminal investigation and prosecution for alleged crimes, including witness intimidation, child abduction, filing counterfeit documents, and violations of state and federal civil rights laws.

On the other hand, at the request of cartel attorneys, pro per litigants are routinely punished by judges with illegal fines, draconian financial sanctions, and other types of punishment to discourage them from returning to court, and to coerce them to accept settlement terms dictated by the opposing judge pro tem lawyers.

Attorneys provide judges reciprocal protection by not reporting the judicial misconduct,Code of Judicial Ethics violations, and criminal conduct committed by full-time judge cartel members. And the lawyers do more.

To help conceal and ensure the continuity of the enterprise, on the rare occasion when full-time judges do face investigation by the Commission on Judicial Performance, members of the cartel provide false, misleading, or otherwise gratuitous character witness testimony and other forms of support for the offending judge. The testimony and support is designed to, and does reduce or eliminate potential punishment by the CJP, ensuring judge members remain on the bench.

Racketeering Conduct of Court Clerks, Supervisors and the Family Law Facilitator

The racketeering activity includes startling coordination, kickbacks, and pattern and practice misconduct by court clerks, supervisors, and the Family Law Facilitator office. Court clerks routinely refuse to file legally sufficient paperwork for pro per parties, while at the same time filing legally insufficient, and even counterfeit paperwork – which they are required by law to reject for filing – for judge pro tem attorneys.

FBI Sacramento Division Special Agent in Charge Monica Miller Sacramento Field Office – Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert – United States Department of Justice Benjamin Wagner US Attorney for the Eastern District of California
In this case, a court clerk illegally “unfiled” a notice of appeal filed by
an indigent, disabled pro per litigant. Click here for details.

In some cases, judges and court clerks work in tandem toprevent pro per parties from filing documents at court hearings for the benefit of judge pro tems, deliberately creating an incomplete and inaccurate trial court record in the event the pro per files an appeal.

Court records show that clerks also deliberately withhold and delay the filing of time sensitive pro per documents until after filing deadlines have expired.

Family Law Facilitator staff provide pro per litigants with false information designed to conceal state law violations by court clerks and supervisors. Judges regularly provide attorneys with written legal advice and “bench tips.” When pro pers ask facilitator staff for similar information, they are told that facilitator employees are prohibited from giving legal advice.
 

It is with great sadness I announce the passing of Carroll Denison, my mother in law

My mother in law, Carroll Denison, passed away peacefully and suddenly in her sleep last night.  I’m sure this is very hard on her two daughters Sandy and Cathy and their families.  Please pray for them and my husband, Calvin.

You may send your condolences to:

Calvin Denison

5700 N Natoma Ave

Chicago, IL 60631

She had 6 grandchildren – Niki and Kristin (Cathy and Dean) and our 4, Sean, Brendan, Matthew and Melissa.

I am certain an obit will appear in this weekend’s Tribune.

She will be missed.

JoAnne Denison

Another day, another Petition to the Ill. Sup. Ct

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS
MR 27522
In Re:

JOANNE MARIE DENISON Attorney-Respondent-Appellant
Reg. No. 6192441
v.

Illinois ARDC,
Petitioner – Appellee

Commission No. 2013 PR 0001

Motion to Reconsider Order of 2/4/16

NOTICE OF FILING
TO:
Attys Steven R. Splitt, Sharon Opryszek, Melissa Smart and Jerome Larkin
ARDC, One Prudential Plaza, 12th Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60601 via USPS, postage prepaid

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on February 22, 2016, I have electronically filed my Motion to Reconsider Order of 2/4/16, a copy of which is attached and served upon you, by filing an original document and twelve copies with the Clerk of the Supreme Court of Illinois in Springfile via USPS first class mail postage prepaid from Niles, IL 60714 and mailing a copy to your offices at the address above.

Respectfully Submitted

/esign/joannemdenison/
JoAnne Denison, Pro Se
JoAnne Denison
Denison & Assocs, PC
5940 W Touhy Ave, #120
Niles, IL 60714
Ph 312 553 1300, Fax 312 553 1307
joanne@denisonlaw.com

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF ILLINOIS
MR 27522
In Re:

JOANNE MARIE DENISON

Attorney-Respondent-Appellant
Reg. No. 6192441
v.

Illinois ARDC
Complainant-Appellee Commission No. 2013 PR 0001

ORAL ARGUMENT REQUESTED
Motion to Reconsider Order of 2/4/16
MOTION TO RECONSIDER ORDER OF 2/4/16
Prefatory Statement – the Illinois ARDC has begun a war on Honest Attorneys and innocent victim Citizens demanding judicial accountability in the Illinois and US Probate courts.

Now comes Respondent, Joanne M Denison, and respectfully moves this honorable court to reconsider its Order of 2/4/16 denying reconsideration of its 9/21/16 Order for running a blog which discloses in detail numerous frauds and criminal schemes perpetrated upon innocent Illinois citizens and their families in the Illinois Probate court system, and nationwide which are unethical and immoral and illegal, and how the ARDC dismisses valid citizen complaints regarding lawyers and courtroom vendors in Probate. The Respondent has not neglected any clients, has not stolen anything or engaged in any ethical or immoral misconduct, the basis for filing an action against her was primarily a “go after” proceeding that discussed in detail problems and issues in Probate Court and presented the positions of scores of families in Probate who had experienced horrendous injustices and allowed them to freely discuss their complaints and grievances in an open, free and democratic manner.

The grounds for this motion are:

1) Respondent never received a copy of certain important petitions from the ARDC (respondent is not supposed to mention the name of this petition according to the clerk, but was field on (2×5, 3×3, 10^3.304) regarding the amount of $10^4.2443 –the ARDC routinely and conveniently forgets to serve copies of all of its pleadings;
3) On or about January 11, 2015 Respondent did in fact file a Motion for Reconsideration of the 9/15/16 order suspending her which was based upon new case law and a Harvard Law Review article on Occupation speech, all of which confirmed that her blog which contained political speech should be fully protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution and Article 1, § 10 of the Illinois constitution, which effectively contested the ARDC’s position that it is somehow owed (a particular amount of renumerations) from a charity, Justice4Every1.com which runs the Subject Blog in question. Stealing from a charity is definitively the nadir of the legal system.
4) The present Motion effectively asks in substance that this award of “costs” is improper, that the Subject Blog, http://www.marygsykes.com is protected under numerous state laws respecting protection of the media from assault by the government, and the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
Respondent does not believe that her blog is subject to attack via the ARDC’s “go after” proceedings, under both US and Illinois constitutions. At her trial, numerous family and friends of Mary Sykes, appeared and either testified or attempted to testify, that all statements made on the Subject Blog at http://www.marygsykes.com were in fact true, and that:
1) Mary Sykes was competent at the time she was guardianized (https://vimeo.com/38694743) and
2) she never received a Summons or Complaint as required under the Illinois Probate Act, her elderly sisters were never informed of the time, date and place of guardianization (Exhibit A at ARDC trial),
3) Mary Sykes repeatedly requested an attorney, and she was never given one;
4) the case was filed in the wrong venue–she lived at the time in Naperville and had to be served there;
5) her $1 million home was appraised in Feb. Of 2012 for $750,000 and was sold two months later for $213,000 to a real estate investment company;
6) she stated in her POA for Health Care that her younger daughter Gloria Sykes was to be her guardian, if one were to be appointed, and this directive was repeatedly ignored by the court;
7) she stated in her POA for Health Care that she wanted to live in her own home and have her two daughters care for her there and this directive was ignored repeatedly by the probate court and the two GAL’s Stern and Farenga and the Guardian and her attorneys;
8) Videos on Vimeo.com consistently show that in Dec. of 2009 was competent, had clear and lucid thinking and was engaged in higher level cognitive thinking and reasoning (https://vimeo.com/38694743). This Video was not allowed to be played at trial.
9) Scott Evans would have testified at trial that in Dec. Of 2009 Mary played cards with her Norwood Park Card club and “beat the pants” off of everyone else. The card game? Canasta.
9) in July of 2014, the Respondent and 3 other citizen witnesses, who were also close friends and family of Mary Sykes found her at a nursing home in Naperville–Sunrise of Naperville and took 40 minutes of video showing her to be competent, clear thinking and lucid and able to engage in higher cognitive reasoning and decision making. Mary was walking and talking and engaged in her environment and the persons around her. She was a strict vegan and a devout Roman Catholic and did not believe in hospice or psychotropic drugs. Approximately 20 other senior citizens sat nearby, propped up in wheelchairs in front of a TV which droned on. It is believed that these seniors citizens were drugged with illegal chemical restraints and that Mary had been place in a facility were the use of chemical restraints were common and accepted. The attorneys involved, each of Stern, Farenga, Schmeidel, Soehlig knew or should have known of the use of illegal chemical restrains before placing Mary there.
9) Sometime after leaving the facility, Respondent learned that Naperville police had had a conversation with an Officer Krakow who demanded that she destroy her video of Mary (Mary had given permission to video tape her, the staff said nothing during the 40 minute time period) and most importantly, this running down Respondent in a parking lot and threatening her with arrest only occurred after a conversation had taken place with Attorney Stern. At the ARDC trial, Officer Krakow’s testimony was he remembered nothing about any incidents which transpired at the nursing home. (Cite).
10) on May 22, 2015, Mary was narcotized to death. Gloria Sykes, the younger daughter was called at 3 pm and told she had to be at the nursing home by 5 pm or she “would not be able to see her mother”. When Gloria arrived, her mother was drugged so heavily her mother could not move and could not speak, although she desperately tried to speak to Gloria. The next day, the Guardian took Mary’s body to Suerth Funeral home in Chicago and demanded she be embalmed on the spot (to reduce or eliminate any traces of toxins and psychotropic drugs in her body, that no death announcements be made and that Mary’s body be entombed as soon as possible. Upon information and belief, the Funeral Director found this extremely odd but complied. Mary G. Sykes had no wake, no funeral, no death announcements were placed in any publication or online, save those by the younger Daughter Gloria Sykes. The death certificate lists “natural causes and dementia” as the cause of death, but less than one year prior, Mary G. Sykes showed no evidence of dementia, when 4 close friends/family of hers saw her at a nursing home in July of 2014, she was clear thinking, lucid and able to engage in higher cognitive level reasoning. This death needs to be investigated and the ARDC must be directed to investigate this death and the attorneys involved in the case–Stern, Farenga, Schmeidel and Soehlig who stood by and watched Mary Sykes’ constitutional rights be continually denied her, and then knew or should have known she was drugged to death, and failed to arrange for an autopsy and tox screen.
The ARDC also fails to inform this honorable Court that during Respondent’s Review Board hearing, Gloria Sykes stood up and announced before all witnesses there that the blog was in fact true, that she could confirm all the statements made and that the ARDC’s proceeding was only a sham to protect clouted attorneys.
It is not the policy or stated mission of the Illinois ARDC State Agency to institute and then manipulate and handle “go after” proceedings in a war against honest attorneys Denison, Ditkowsky and Lanre Amu (who was convicted of practicing law and helping poor immigrant Africans “while black”). It is the stated policy of the Illinois ARDC to protect the integrity of the legal profession and to protect the public against unscrupulous attorneys. This the ARDC refuses to do in a steadfast manner, leading to hundreds of blog posts based upon actual client interviews of their experiences in the Illinois and US Probate Court system.

C. New Case Law and Law Review Articles require the Reconsideration of the Order of 2/4/16
1. In particular, the following case law has been issued since the original filings in June, 2015: Weddigen, Ill. 4th Dist, 4-15-44 and Rosemond v. Markham, 13-CV-42, E.D. Kentucky doct #48 and a new Harvard Law Review Article, Occupational Speech and the First Amendment by Paul Sherman and the Institute for Justice, Vol. 128:183 based upon the Rosemond case.
Respondent herewith incorporates by reference her entire ¶ C (herein ¶ D) from her prior Motion to reconsider filed on or about January 11, 2015, which was decided before her Reply and Motion to File a Reply was considered by the Illinois Supreme Court which issued a Denial on or about February 4, 2016. In this Reply, the Respondent pointed out the cases the ARDC cited which were all blatant misrepresentations of on point Appellate case law and Supreme Court law. This argument is incorporated herewith below.

D. Continued Case Misrepresentations by the Administrator:

1) In re Sarelas, 50 Ill.2d 87, 277 N.E.2d 303 (1972). Not at all apposite to a First Amendment Blogging case. In this case, Sarelas “Exhibited a continuous course of conduct…by instituting groundless lawsuits against members of the bar, the bench and laymen… by those who crossed him. In re Sarelas, 50 Ill. 2d 87, 98-99, 277 N.E.2d 313, 219 (1971). This case is not an appellate decision and cannot be cited as precedent. (Stanford and Harvard Rules of Citation). The undersigned’s discipline involved a blog and blogging about corruption to warn the public and is a First Amendment question, not a frivolous lawsuit question. No statements were made in court, and no judges were insulted or denigrated on a face to face basis. More important, all statements made were in accord with other Probate blogs (elderabuse.com, NASGA, Probatesharks.com, etc.) and they all decried the mantra in probate of “target, isolate, medicate, drain the estate, eliminate and cremate” – a most grave problem that the ARDC does not acknowledge and refuses to remedy.
Correct and non misleading quotes from the 7th circuit case in Sarelas: “Some judges are dishonest; their identification and removal is a matter of high priority in order to promote a justified public confidence in the judicial system.” and “[i]f Palmisano had furnished some factual basis for his assertions, then we would need to determine whether either the Constitution or principles of sound judicial administration permit a sanction–for an attorney is not absolutely liable for every statement that turns out to be incorrect. It would unduly quell investigation and exposure of corruption to disbar an attorney who publicized suspicious conduct, just because the suspicions were dispelled. Palmisano, lacked support for his slurs. Id.

2) In re Palmisano, 92 CH 109, 70 F.3d 483 (7th cir. 1995) involved an attorney who made false and misleading statement by calling Judge Siracusa “Frank the Fixer”, Judge Lewis a “crook”, further stating that “most cases in Illinois, in my experience are fixed, not with the passing of money, but on personal relations, social status and judicial preference”, “Chief Justice Peccarelli (sic), your response…[is corrupt] in the 18th judicial circuit”, etc. Each statement appears to be made in a case, not on a blog, and therefore is inapposite. Mr. Palmisano did not furnish any factual basis for his assertions.

3) In re Hoffman, Review board:
a) Judge Patrick T Murphy:
In February 2008, after receiving unfavorable rulings from a Circuit Court Judge, the Respondent participated in a conference call with the judge and another attorney. During the conference call the Respondent stated to the judge “you are a narcissistic, maniacal, mental case” and “you should not be on the bench.” A few days later, the Respondent sent the judge a letter, in which the Respondent said “I must bluntly state that you appear to have serious mental issues involving extreme narcissism and illusions of grandiosity which effectively interferes with your ability to act as a judge.”p.1

b) Judge Heineken
The Respondent described the administrative hearing as a “kangaroo court” and a joke.” (Adm. Ex. 29 at 206, 230). He further stated “this is no more a fair hearing than they had in Russia when they were operating under the Soviet system” and “I don’t pretend that this can be a fair hearing.’ (Adm. Ex. 29 at 230-31)
*****
In this case, if the Respondent believed he had grounds for a grievance against Judge Murphy, he could present his claims to a proper authority. However, by choosing to make insulting and offensive comments to the judge, his conduct was clearly unnecessary, inappropriate, and exceeded acceptable bounds of professional conduct. P.26
*****
The Respondent further asserted that “after Judge Murphy became so upset during that [February 8, 2008] conversation he entered what he called a possible Rule 137 sanctions order against my client,” and “I believe that was done in retaliation and as a result of his narcissistic personality disorder.” p.32

Response to Hoffman citation: All of Mr. Hoffman’s statements were made during court proceedings, none were made in the news or on a blog. Mr. Hoffman appeared in these cases, and in some he made offensive and insulting statements directly to the court, to other attorneys and litigants. It is these insulting statements that impugned the integrity of the judges involved. Respondent Denison never spoke personally to any of the judges involved, nor did she insult or denigrate them to their face. Instead, the Subject Blogs presented only the facts and evidence in the cases. One judge would be forced to retire approximately six weeks after trial because she changed her testimony on the stand, and a changed transcript would later appear and the Tribunal ignored the obvious tampering in the case. That is what happened. The blog reported on the facts. The Hearing Board and Tribunal just denied the facts, struck witnesses left and right who would confirm the facts and only allowed attorney and judge witnesses who are part of the problem of “target, isolate, medicate, drain the estate, eliminate and cremate”. The treatment of Ms. Kathie Bakken and Ms. Yolanda Bakken was particularly shameful. Eliminating the testimony of Ms. Gloria Sykes would would say the blog was truthful was a horrendous problem. Eliminating the testimony of Mr. Scott Evans, a former military intelligence staff member with formerly top secret clearance rating was equally as problematic in the proceeding. He would have testified that in Dec. 2009 when Mary Sykes was guardianized, that she was competent, lucid and clear thinking and that when she played canasta, a complicated card game, with her card club, she beat the pants off everyone. Further, refusing to look at a Vimeo video showing Mary G Sykes to be lucid, clear thinking and with higher cognitive functioning in December 2009 when she was guardianized is extremely troubling.

Respondent Denison has done none of what Sarelas, Hoffman or Palmisano did–insult and denigrate judges to their face in open court rooms and public areas. All statements made were on her Blog together with pleadings, evidence and transcripts, and the Tribunal and Board did not differentiate between her opinions and whether she was presenting the opinions of others. No judges were insulted or denigrated to their faces. Nor were any litigants. Nor were any of the attorneys involved: Schmeidel, Farenga, Stern or Soehlig. Moreover, dozens of witnesses supported her and the blog is very popular with approximately 100 views per day, and is now over 100,000 views total. The Tribunal refused to look at any documents and evidence, transcripts and affidavits on the Blog which supported the comments made. Most of the comments, were not in fact those of Respondent, but came from family members and members of the public who were in fact probate victims themselves. The Tribunal did not differentiate between any blog posts that emanated from Respondent versus those emanating from the public and court room corruption victims.
In the present case, more than adequate exhibits, documents and testimony were proffered by Sykes family members to show support for all blog posts. The Mary G. Sykes case 09 P 4585 lacked jurisdiction, a safe deposit box was drilled without authorization, all discovery was quashed to find assets and by the own admissions of the attorneys involved, her $750,000 home was sold for $213,000 to a “real estate investment corporation.” Further, on May 22, 2015, Mary Sykes was narcotized to death and there was no tox screen and no autopsy. Her body was quickly entombed without death announcements, a funeral or wake. GALs Stern and Farenga, appointed to protect Mary from harm, grossly negated their fiduciary duties.

E. The Administrator fails to acknowledge Appellate case law on the First Amendment as follows:

Administrator asserts that running a blog about corruption is akin to shouting “fire” in a crowded theater. This is an incorrect standard. Schenk v. US was decided in 1919 and overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio. Constitutional Law 101 teaches all law students these principals. The government cannot regulate the media. New York Times v. Sullivan.

New York Times v. Sullivan correctly states:
“Any system of prior restraints of expression comes to this Court bearing a heavy presumption against its constitutional validity.” Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan, 372 U. S. 58, 372 U. S. 70 (1963); see also Near v. Minnesota, 283 U. S. 697 (1931). The Government “thus carries a heavy burden of showing justification for the imposition of such a restraint.” Organization for a Better Austin v. Keefe, 402 U. S. 415, 402 U. S. 419 (1971).
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“The greater the importance of safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve inviolate the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion, to the end that government may be responsive to the will of the people and that changes, if desired, may be obtained by peaceful means. Therein lies the security of the Republic, the very foundation of constitutional government. [Footnote 6] Id. At 719-720.

As we stated only the other day in Organization for a Better Austin v. Keefe, 402 U. S. 415, 402 U. S. 419, “[a]ny prior restraint on expression comes to this Court with a “heavy presumption” against its constitutional validity.”

These are but a few examples of the actual holding the ARDC wants to ignore.

Alvarez correctly states:

(a) The Constitution “demands that content-based restrictions on speech be presumed invalid . . . and that the Government bear the burden of showing their constitutionality.” Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union, 542 U. S. 656, 660.
Content-based restrictions on speech have been permitted only for a few historic categories of speech, including incitement, obscenity, defamation, speech integral to criminal conduct, so-called “fighting words,” child pornography, fraud, true threats, and speech presenting some grave and imminent threat the Government has the power to prevent.
The Government’s three examples of false-speech regulation that courts generally have found permissible do not establish a principle that all proscriptions of false statements are exempt from rigorous First Amendment scrutiny.

The ARDC misrepresents the law when it says the First Amendment does not apply to attorney speech, and especially when that speech is on a blog and not made in a courtroom or other proceeding. The ARDC admits the speech is political in nature, yet it does not protect the political speech.

Citizens United v. Fed. Election Comm’n, 130 S. Ct. 876, 175 L. Ed. 2d 753, 558 U.S. 310, 78 USLW 4078 (2010) states:

Because speech is an essential mechanism of democracy—it is the means to hold officials accountable to the people—political speech must prevail against laws that would suppress it by design or inadvertence. Laws burdening such speech are subject to strict scrutiny, which requires the Government to prove that the restriction “furthers a compelling interest and is narrowly tailored to achieve that interest.” WRTL, 551 U. S., at 464,127 S.Ct. 2652. This language provides a sufficient framework for protecting the interests in this case. Premised on mistrust of governmental power, the First Amendment stands against attempts to disfavor certain subjects or viewpoints or to distinguish among different speakers, which may be a means to control content. The Government may also commit a constitutional wrong when by law it identifies certain preferred speakers. There is no basis for the proposition that, in the political speech context, the Government may impose restrictions on certain disfavored speakers. Both history and logic lead to this conclusion. Pp. 896 – 899.
The Administrator has been well made aware of these cases, but does not read the US Constitution and refuses to give it force and effect.

In the Direct TV v. Imgburgia, 577 U. S. ____ (2015) case it was stated:

No one denies that lower courts must follow this Court’s holding in Concepcion. The fact that Concepcion was a closely divided case, resulting in a decision from which four Justices dissented, has no bearing on that undisputed obligation. Lower court judges are certainly free to note their disagreement with a decision of this Court. But the “Supremacy Clause forbids state courts to dissociate themselves from federal law because of disagreement with its content or a refusal to recognize the superior authority of its source.”
The Federal Arbitration Act is a law of the United States, and Concepcion is an authoritative interpretation of that Act. Consequently, the judges of every State must follow it. U. S. Const., Art. VI, cl. 2 (“[T]he Judges in every State shall be bound” by“the Laws of the United States”). Id. at p. 7.

And In Re Sawyer, 360 U.S. 622, 79 S.Ct. 1376, 3 L.Ed.2d 1473 (1959), is in accord, but is always mis-cited by the ARDC:

From Sawyer:
We start with the proposition that lawyers are free to criticize the state of the law. Many lawyers say that the rules of evidence relative to the admission of statements by those alleged to be co-conspirators are overbroad or otherwise unfair and unwise; that there are dangers to defendants, of a sort against which trial judges cannot protect them, in the trial of numerous persons jointly for conspiracy; and that a Smith Act trial is apt to become a trial of ideas. Others disagree. But all are free to express their views of these matters, and no one would say that this
sort of criticism constituted an improper attack on the judges who
enforced such rules and who presided at the trials. This is so, even though the existence of questionable rules of law might be said in a sense to produce unfair trials. Such criticism simply cannot be equated with an attack on the motivation or the integrity or the competence of the judges. And surely permissible criticism may as well be made to a lay audience as to a professional; oftentimes the law is modified through popular criticism; Sawyer 19, 20 1959, 360 U.S. 622, 79 S.Ct. 1376, 3 L.Ed.2d 1473 (1959)
To the charges made and found (criticizing Judge Wiig’s decision and the Law in question), it is irrelevant whether the Smith Act case was still pending. Judge Wiig remained equally protected from statements impugning him, and petitioner remained equally free to make critical statements that did not cross that line. We find that hers cannot be said to have done so. Accordingly, the suspension order, based on the charge relating to the speech, cannot stand. Sawyer 19, 20 1959, 360 U.S. 622, 79 S.Ct. 1376, 3 L.Ed.2d 1473 (1959)
F. Conclusion

Because the Administrator continues to mislead the court in its pleadings, and because the US Supreme court made it clear in the Direct TV case that US Supreme Court rulings are not mere suggestions, but the Illinois Supreme Court and its ARDC Hearing Board and Tribunals are directed to follow them, the Order of Feb. 4, 2016 must be vacated to conform to the rulings of the US Supreme Court in United States v Alvarez, 132 US. Ct 537, Brown v Entm’t Merchants Asss’n 13 S. Ct 2729, Ashcroft v ACLU 124, et al., In re Weddigen, Rosemont v. Markham and other cases which direct that the government cannot regulate private speech on a blog that is simply discussing corruption in the courts and presenting evidence of that corruption. No judges were maligned or insulted to their faces, citizens were shown how to write proper grievances to the authorities and such speech is and should be fully protected by the First Amendment.
A proposed Order is submitted herewith.

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,

/esign/joannemdenison/
JoAnne M. Denison

Prepared By:
JoAnne M. Denison, Atty. No. 6192441
Denison Patents, Inc.
5940 W Touhy Ave, #120
phone: 312-553-1300
fax: 312-553-1307
http://www.denisonlaw.com
JoAnne@DenisonLaw.com

cc: Chicago FBI

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

The undersigned attorney – Respondent herewith certifies that an electronic copy of her Motion to Reconsider Order of 2/4/2016 in the above entitled cause was submitted to the Clerk of the above Court for filing on February 22, 2016 On that same date, the undersigned mailed one copy to the person named below in an envelope deposited in a US mail box in Niles, IL, with proper postage prepaid. An original and twelve (12) copies of the Motion will be sent to the Clerk upon receipt of the electronically submitted file stamped pleading.

Atty Steven Splitt and Clerk of Court
Attn: ARDC, One Prudential Plaza, 130 E. Randolph St, 12th Floor
Chicago, IL 60601
via first class mail, postage prepaid
/esign/joannemdenison/_

JoAnne Marie Denison

STATE OF ILLINOIS )
)
COUNTY OF COOK )

I hereby declare that JoAnne Denison appeared before me, and signed the above Certificate of Service February 22, 2016

________________________________________

a notary public for the State of Illinois
My Commission expires _____________
IN THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS

In re: Joanne Marie Denison

Attorney-Respondent

No. 6192441

by the Illinois ARDC,

Petitioner
MR 27193

Supreme Court No. M. R. 27193
Commission No. 2013 PR 0001
from
Case No. 2013 PR 1
Motion to Reconsider Order of 2/4/16
ORDER

Now comes the above Honorable Court and having been advised of the premises of Respondent’s Motion to Reconsider,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED

___________ Motion to reconsider GRANTED and order of 2/4/16 is vacated herewith
___________ Motion to Reconsider DENIED
______________________________ ________________________________
Justice Justice

______________________________ ________________________________
Justice Justice

______________________________ ________________________________
Justice Justice

______________________________ ________________________________
Justice Justice

______________________________
Justice

Prepared by
JoAnne M Denison
Justice 4 Every 1, NFP
5940 W. Touhy Ave, #120
Niles, IL 60714
phone 312-553-1300
joanne@denisonlaw.com

Comments from Ken Ditkowsky–Defining terms

Subject: Defining terms
Date: Feb 22, 2016 4:11 PM
Defining who is a disabled person should be easy, except it is not.   Our statutes are vague and difficult.     Who is a person that is not fully able to manage his person or estate?
 
These are the words of 755 ILCS 5/11a – 2.   
 
  Do the framers of the guardianship statute realize that 50% of the population of the United States of America is below average!    Indeed, if you think about it, who is at all times relevant able to “fully manage his person or estate.”   If you drawn the standard too high my metaphor seeking a guardian for the President of the United States is not that far fetched.  Every one of the current candidates for the nomination of President would also qualify with flying colors for a guardian!
 
With some of the corrupt jurists we’ve had occasion to encounter (such as the judge who on page 90 and following of her deposition admitted to being wired) we have some real scary scenarios pending – and with what appears to be a Nationwide cover-up of the corruption the plot thickens!   Such is the reason that each and every one of us is threatened and must insist on law enforcement conducting HONEST investigation of all of the outrageous elder cleansing cases – AND THE COVER-UPS.   
 
For instance, we cannot rest without knowing how a corrupt judge gets the idea that he can empower a guardian to file proceedings to annul Colonel Smith’s marriage to Glenda.    We have to know how it is that a guardian can usurp the personal assets of Angelia Woodhull.   We have ascertain by what authority a guardian ad litem can engineer the prospecting for gold in the mouth of Alice Gore.   We have to ascertain by authority Carolyn Wyman was removed from her safe home to a nursing where she was prey to sexual predators who apparently were give leave to ravage her.
 
Turning this issue over to a shrink does not help the situation.   In the case of Robert Jaycox, the shrink was prepared and did testify that Mr. Jaycox was incompetent and his medical opinion that he could not fully care for his estate or his person; however, this same medical professional on cross-examination that he personally supervised Swedish Covenant Hospital officials having Mr. Jaycox consent to a life threatening operation.    
 
To her credit Judge ****** stopped the proceedings at that point, but she did not dismiss the proceedings.   Subsequently, Jaycox was returned to the nursing home where he contacted an aspirated pneumonia which was fatal and he died.  Even though Jaycox was not Jewish, his cremation occurred with fantastic dispatch!
 
It is in all our best interests to get this problem properly defined and to eliminate from the equation the cadre of dishonest judicial and political figures that pollute the landscape.  For this we need 1) an Honest investigation, 2) civil collection of the taxes that are owed by the miscreants and their co-conspirators, 3) prosecution of the miscreants and their 18 UsCA 371 and 18 UsCA 242 co-conspirators and 4) priority given to the effort. 

Response from the ABA and protecting Whistleblowers!

From: JoAnne M Denison <jdenison@surfree.com>

To: ABA Member Service <service@americanbar.org>, Atty Ken Ditkowsky <ken@ditkowskylawoffice.com>, Atty Barbara Stone <bstone575@gmail.com>, Atty Candice Schwager <candiceschwager@icloud.com>, …..

Cc: Chicago FBI <chicago@ic.fbi.gov>, Chicago FBI Civil Rights <civilrights.cv@ic.fbi.gov>, “fbi@service.govdelivery.com” <fbi@service.govdelivery.com>

Subject: RE: Membership (current and new memberships) +

Date: Feb 22, 2016 3:56 PM

That’s why I was writing you.  The proceeding was a “go after” proceeding for revealing corruption on a blog.

The ABA has to do more to protect the public, whose out cry from corruption in the court room is now deafening.

It is not enough any longer to cite a rule.  The ABA must be proactive in rescuing those attorneys who are honest and ethical and stop protecting a bunch of thieves and felons.

While the ARDC was engaging in a go after proceeding against me,  Atty Seth Gillman was indicted in January 2014 for bilking the Federal and State governments of $100 million in Medicare and State health care fraud.

His status still shows as “not disciplined by the ARDC”

Last week, Mr. Gillman  plead guilty to one count of fraud and to submit to a fine up to $250,000 and restitution.  He faces federal prison for 10 years.

This happens, and your response is, there is a rule?

A rule?

You’re kidding.  Each of myself, Ken Ditkowsky and Lanre Amu have done nothing wrong except alert the authorities and the public to severe and insidious corruption by attorneys killing off seniors (Sykes,
Reichert, Frake, etc.) and bilking their estate of millions (Drabik, Tyler, Sykes, etc.) and you respond with “there is a rule….”

I don’t understand how the ABA, which is supposed to be a paragon for Truth and Justice, cites rules when the internet and the probate blogs are a blaze with stories of corruption.

Take a look at the Sykes case.  There was clearly no jurisdiction when Mary was guardianized. She was not served with summons or complaint, nor was she read her rights as required by the Illinois Probate Act and by the case In re Ralph Sodini.

Then $1 million in valuables were taken from her safe deposit box after the Guardian drilled it out, and all discovery was quashed in the case. Eventually, the money ran out and Mary was narcotized to death on May 22, 2015.  Her body was taken swiftly to a funeral home where the Guardian demanded that it be embalmed on the spot and interred in her her crypt immediately.  The Guardian successfully quashed more discovery and more requests for an autopsy and tox screen on the body.

There are more cases.

My blog faithfully reports on each of these cases and gives victims and their families the support they need.  I have collected dozens of affidavits from my clients that my blog and I and Ken Ditkowsky have helped them understand what is going on more than all the other probate lawyers involved who refuse to talk about the truth, but continue to falsely bilk estates for attorneys fees when people are forced into nursing homes, chemically restrained and nothing is done about it by the ARDC or by the ABA or CBA.

There is something seriously wrong here and the ABA must rectify it to retain any credibility.

joanne Denison

PS–I won’t even mention the shameful behavior of your president Greg Coleman on 60 minutes where he salivated over laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for corrupt foreign officials which is clearly unethical behavior under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.  He is still a member, but you refuse Whistleblowers. Says a lot about your organization.

cc:  www.marygsykes.com
—–Original Message—–
From: ABA Member Service
Sent: Feb 22, 2016 2:46 PM
To: “joanne@denisonlaw.com”
Subject: RE: Membership (current and new memberships) +

Hello,

 

Thank you for contacting the American Bar Association.

 

Regrettably as an attorney suspended from the practice of law you are not eligible for membership in the American Bar Association pursuant to Article 3.3 of the Association’s Constitution and Bylaws.

 

Visit our website at www.americanbar.org or contact us at www.americanbar.org/contactus. For immediate assistance, please call the ABA Service Center at 800-285-2221 or 312-988-5522 Monday-Friday between 9:00 AM and 6:00 PM ET.

 

Sincerely,

 

ABA Service Center

American Bar Association

321 North Clark Street

Chicago, IL  60654

If you are an honest, ethical attorney in Chicago, Watch out!

But if you steal $100 million from the US Govt, the ARDC will protect you.

From: kenneth ditkowsky <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com> [Edit Address Book]

To: FBI- <fraud_aging@aging.senate.gov>, “FBI- ( (” <civilrights.cv@ic.fbi.gov>

Cc: Eric Holder <askdoj@usdoj.gov>, Chicago FBI <chicago@ic.fbi.gov>, Probate Sharks <verenusl@gmail.com>, “JoAnne M. Denison” <joanne@justice4every1.com>, Tim NASGA <timlahrman@aol.com>, Bev Cooper <bev.cooperscorner@yahoo.com>, Janet Phelan <janet_c_phelan@yahoo.com>, …

Subject: Fw: EVIDENCE OF BAD FAITH ON THE PART OF Mr. Larkin and the IARDC – and 1n 18 USCA 371 cover-up

Date: Feb 22, 2016 10:56 AM

Here is tangible proof of Jerome Larkin’s conspiracy to aid and abet elder cleansings.   The cover-up of the miscreants conduct is a public disgrace and is not limited to protecting Seth Gillman, but includes blanket protections for a cesspool of lawyers practicing in the Cook County Circuit Court – including those involved in the Alice Gore, Mary Sykes et al cases.

Starting at page 90 it appears that Judge Connors admitted that she was wired – she was elevated to the Appellate Court of Illinois!    Up is down, Right is left, green is red, ******

 

Ken Ditkowsky

www.ditkowskylawoffice.com

 
—– Forwarded Message —–
From: kenneth ditkowsky <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com>
To: JoAnne M. Denison <joanne@justice4every1.com>;
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 10:49 AM
Subject: EVIDENCE OF BAD FAITH ON THE PART OF Mr. Larkin and the IARDC – and 1n 18 USCA 371 cover-up

dozens of former employees, victims, and just ordinary people were upset when it was discovered that an Illinois Attorney was associated with a Hospice company and that he was a proximate cause on more than $150,000,000 in thefts from the government.   More were upset when they learned that trust funds entrusted to this lawyer and his cadre of co-conspirators had been allegedly stolen by the attorney.

Pursuant to Rule 8.3 attorneys duly reported (over a year ago) the attorney’s misconduct to the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, and the United States of America on their website revealed the perfidy.

JoAnne Denison’s blog – MaryGSykes – reported this serious breach of lawyers ethics.   The reaction:  Mr. Larkin and the IARDC successfully argued that the publication of corruption in the MaryGSykes blog was akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater and was a danger to the public the required an immediate suspension of Ms. Denison’s law license.    Indeed, Attorney Denison’s law license was suspended and in addition she received a three year suspension in addition.

What happened to the attorney who breached his fiduciary relationship, stole trust funds, defrauded the United States of America  – pleading guilty to the charges in the US District Court?

LAWYER SEARCH: ATTORNEY’S REGISTRATION AND PUBLIC DISCIPLINARY RECORD

ARDC Individual Attorney Record of Public Registration and Public Disciplinary and Disability Information as of February 22, 2016 at 9:00:00 AM:

Full Licensed Name: Seth Gillman
Full Former name(s): None
Date of Admission as Lawyer
by Illinois Supreme Court:
November 4, 1993
Registered Business Address: vivere, inc
320 West Ohio Street 3w
Chicago, IL 60654-7887
Registered Business Phone: (857) 702-5720
Illinois Registration Status: Active and authorized to practice law  – Last Registered Year: 2016
Malpractice Insurance:
(Current as of date of registration;
consult attorney for further information)
In annual registration, attorney reported that he/she does not have malpractice coverage. (Some attorneys, such as judges, government lawyers, and in-house corporate lawyers, may not carry coverage due to the nature of their practice setting.)
Public Record of Discipline
and Pending Proceedings:
None

Check carefully to be sure that you have selected the correct lawyer. At times, lawyers have similar names. The disciplinary results displayed above include information relating to any and all public discipline, court-ordered disability inactive status, reinstatement and restoration dispositions, and pending public proceedings. Investigations are confidential and information relating to the existence or status of any investigation is not available. For additional information regarding data on this website, please contact ARDC at (312) 565-2600 or, from within Illinois, at (800) 826-8625.

ARDC makes every effort to maintain the currency and accuracy of Lawyer Search. If you find any typographical errors in the Lawyer Search information, please email   registration@iardc.org . For changes to contact information, including address, telephone or employer information, we require that the attorney submit a change of address form. Please consult our   Address Change Requests   page for details. Name changes require the filing of a motion with the Supreme Court. Please consult our Name Change Requests   page for details.

 

So that the record is clear – in Illinois a citizen (and especially lawyers) who report criminal activity by public figures or elite members of society who have clout are a danger to the public and get long suspensions of their law licenses, however, those who commit crimes, steal money, rob trusts and in the case of Mr. Gillman – plead guilty in the United States District Court of the United States of America  – are ethical and receive no discipline .

Ken Ditkowsky

www.ditkowskylawoffice.com

From Ken Ditkowsky–Alice Gore case

To: Illinois ARDC <illinois.ardc@gmail.com>
Cc: “FBI- ( (” <civilrights.cv@ic.fbi.gov>, Eric Holder <askdoj@usdoj.gov>, Chicago FBI <chicago@ic.fbi.gov>, …
Subject: How long can a public institution (the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission) continue it role in the ‘cover up’ of elder cleansing and in particular the elder cleansing of Alice Gore.
Date: Feb 21, 2016 10:44 PM
Dear Mr. Larkin,
The family of Alice Gore really has waited long enough for the resolution of the criminal conduct associated with the Alice Gore estate.    From Probate Sharks, I copied a post that contains some of the material that the family sent to you, to wit:
.  Alice R. Gore Estate value about 1 million dollars: Alice R. Gore, deceased, a disabled 99 year old ward of the Probate Court of Cook County, Judge Kawamoto’s courtroom was hours away from ending up in the Cook County Morgue. Alice’s estate was depleted by probate court parasites and there were reportedly no funds to bury her . Her loving family paid for the burial expenses so that Alice would not have to suffer the indignity of being stacked like an Auschwitz inmate in the Cook County morgue. The judge allowed an easily manipulated, court documented, mentally disabled granddaughter to be appointed as Alice’s guardian and yet no sanctions were instituted against the judge or court officers for this blatant infraction of the law.
Strangely, 16 of Alice’s annuity checks, two of which show forged endorsements, disappeared. Alice’s daughter has a copy of a check with her signature possibly forged. The daughter’s attorney has been trying to obtain copies of the 16 other annuity checks for two years without success. Even more puzzling i s a $150,000 life insurance policy owned by Alice and not inventoried into the estate by the court. The Probate Court of Cook of Cook County refuses to investigate these blatant infractions of the law. Makes one wonder what the involvement of the insurance companies was? Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
 Of course, Mr. Larkin and the ARDC have ignored all calls for an HONEST INVESTIGATION  – such calls apparently are akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater according to pleadings filed by Mr. Larkin in his prosecution of Attorney JoAnne Denison.    
 
Pursuant to Rule 8.3 attorneys have a duty to report criminal actions such as occurred in the Alice Gore case and citizens have a similar duty pursuant to 18 USCA 4.    Larkin and his 18 USCA 371 and 18 USCA 242 co-conspirators can run, but they cannot hide.   
 
Why the cover-up?   1.5 million dollars (plus or minus) unaccounted for and stolen.    Where did it go?    What happened to the annuity checks?   What happened to the life insurance.    Indeed, everyone knows where it went.    The guardian ad litem appointed controlled the estate!   Alice was placed in a relative’s facility.   It has been suggested that this relative after a visit from law enforcement has sold his nursing homes and his interest in a pharmaceutical unit whose exclusive customer is other nursing homes after substantial fines.    
 
Illinois is on the verge of Bankruptcy – The Illinois Department of Revenue could solve the financial crisis by the simple act of DOING IS JOB and collecting the Illinois Income taxes due from the elderly cleansing miscreants.    Interest and Penalties are also due.   As Mr. Larkin is an 18 USCA 371 co-conspirator he has joint and several liability with the orchestrating GAL etc.    
 
Why is Larkin and the other miscreants being given a pass? 
 
Ken Ditkowsky

Something smart today. Garage sale 5700 N Natoma Ave, Chicago 2 to 5 pm

Lets raise some money for the ARDC to show support for the first amendment and for our charity Justice 4 Every 1, NFP!

All sorts of knicknacks, knitting and crocheting lessons ($5 donation, bring your troublesome projects), clothes, old books, old stuff.

$1 per grocery bag for most items.

This is our First Amendment Yelling Fire in a  Crowded Theater Sale

JoAnne

An open email to the ABA. Clean up your act. The public is disgusted.

To: ABA Member Service <service@americanbar.org>, Atty Ken Ditkowsky <ken@ditkowskylawoffice.com>, “Mr. Lanre Amu — honest atty unfairly persecuted by ARDC” <loamu@aol.com>, Atty Barbara Stone <bstone575@gmail.com>, Eliot Bernstein <iviewit@iviewit.tv>, Attorney Jeffrey Norkin <jeff@norkinlaw.com>, Atty Dean Loren <deanloren@gmail.com>, angela.drees@yahoo.com, Atty Mark Adams blog fan <markadamsjdmba@hotmail.com>, Atty Richard Fine blog fan <richardfine@campaignforjudicialintegrity.org>, “rgrunds@pshift.com” <rgrunds@pshift.com>, Katherine Hine blog fan <katherinehine@yahoo.com>, “tatiana.neroni@gmail.com” <tatiana.neroni@gmail.com>, Atty Andy Aostrowski <ajo@bsolaw.com>, “cole.stuart@lexevia.com” <cole.stuart@lexevia.com>, “crenshaw-logal@njcdlp.org” <crenshaw-logal@njcdlp.org>
Subject: Re: Email Confirmation
Date: Feb 20, 2016 2:25 AM
This is to confirm my email to your offices in which I stated the following:

I desire to become a free member of the ABA.  I am an attorney who has been suspended in Illinois from the practice of law for 3 years for blogging about corruption.
When the decision regarding my discipline was announced on your website, nearly 100% of the people who posted a comment did so in my favor. They recognize that the legal profession today has sunk to a new low and does not strive toward Truth and Justice as it should be doing.  What was your response, but to remove nearly 80% of the postings under the thinly veiled and totally fake assertions that those posts did not meet and/or violated your “guidelines for posting” when in fact this was a public outcry–an important public outcry which your offices ignored and even covered up.
My work is primarily in probate where senior citizens are routinely subject to the following:  “target, isolate, medicate, drain the estate, narcotize to eliminate and cremate”.  I see nothing on your website that discusses these issues.  In fact, I see nothing on your website that discusses the issues of corruption in the courts.  Poor Mary Sykes died, being narcotized to death when her money ran out–most of which went to attorney fees and nursing home fees–something she rallied against in her advance directives. The ABA should have a corruption blog, not me.
My blog, http://www.marygsykes.com (named after a thoroughly competent woman who was narcotized to death under the “honorable” auspices of the Cook County Probate court system), discusses corruption and how to solve it and more.  The other probate blogs and websites have rallied against these horrific crimes perpetrated by attorneys and judges (NASGA, stopgabsuevieguardianship.com, probatesharks.com, etc.)
The public is utterly disgusted and has had enough of the fact the legal profession (including the ABA, the CBA and the ISBA) covers up all of these crimes and gives free unfettered reign to those that seriously negate all efforts toward Truth and Justice and Honor in the legal “profession.”
We are demanding that you run a corruption blog, have a corruption section and teach what attorneys in the US should and must do in the face of unfettered corruption in the courts.
The time to cover up and continue to run a systematic “code of silence” regarding strings of felonies in the court is long over. The internet has ended that system once and forever.  People know and people talk on the internet.
I was promised when I went to law school that I could enter a courtroom and be assured Truth and Justice to the maximum permitted measure.  I was betrayed. The public has been betrayed.
I took and oath to defend the US and Illinois Constitutions, which I still believe in. The public believes in their state constitutions and the US Constitution.
It is time for the ABA to acknowledge that it has been wrong in the past and to make amends with the victimized US citizens who depend upon Truth and Justice in US courtrooms.
To give myself, Kenneth Ditkowsky, Lanre Amu and dozens of other attorneys free membership until this problem is recognized and abated would go far to instilling your Honor and Integrity in what your organization was and should be about.
Sincerely
JoAnne Denison
PS – I didn’t even mention that shameful 60 minutes report where 12 of of 13 New York attorneys slathered at the mouth when presented with the opportunity to help launder millions of dollars in foreign official bribes, clearly violating the Corrupt Foreign Practices Act, including ABA president Greg Coleman.  I think Ken and I and Lanre would do well to pay a visit to him to explain what he did wrong.  Only the 13th attorney flatly refused to get involved in an international scheme to launder bribe money.  One out of 13 attorneys clearly indicates that something seriously is wrong with the ABA and the New York Bar Association and the plethora of US law school producing such trash and poor excuses for lawyers.

Robert Grundstein Write on Corruption in US courts system

Washington State Bar Office of Disciplinary Counsel Allegedly Conceals Evidence and Obstructs Justice Against Attorney Member Who Exposed Ohio Corruption

“You don’t make any money if you tell the truth in court. You have to lie or you lose your credibility.” Washington State Bar (WSBA) member Robert Grundstein chose to expose the truth, and his opinion as stated herein can also be purchased on Amazon.

Vendetta: Cleveland Ohio and America’s Archipelago of Legal Failure

{ Mr. Grundstein writes:
What should be a matter of national concern has been under publicized among a population of over-educated salesmen (aka, attorneys). These pale conventionalists from Washington State have embraced fear and the failure of American Constitutional culture in exchange for income. The purveyor of this fear is Office of Disciplinary counsel and their staff of third rate minds and 9th rate characters.

The history of Disciplinary counsel is curious. As part of the State Bar, it is a state agency created by statute but is run and controlled by the Supreme Court. It used to be staffed by one or two representatives, but after the docket of complaints grew in the late 1980s and early 90s, the office was increased on an ad hoc basis. The accumulated files of complaints were administered but then there was nothing to do. The attorneys hired by Disciplinary Counsel were second- rate attorneys no one else wanted and who had no lateral mobility. Remember, in the Public Sector, stupid is better. So, the office adopted an agenda to maintain itself and now has 35 employees who are charged with finding fault and extorting legal fees from people it targets; under the protection of the WA Supreme Court.

The irony is staggering and should induce existential nausea in everyone other than Joseph Stalin and Pol Pot. The WA Supreme Court is charged with reviewing cases administered by the business it runs, and the WSBA Office of Disciplinary Counsel is a business. Every year, scores of attorneys (almost exclusively sole practitioners) are charged by the bar. A common scenario is for the Bar to over-prosecute and then to negotiate with the targeted attorney for a lesser disposition in exchange for attorney fees to the bar for every activity it conducted against the attorney and the waiver of a hearing. Average amounts for a settled dispute without hearing (Admonition/suspension, etc.) are five to seven thousand dollars. That’s several hundred thousand to the Bar every year.

If you choose to go to hearing, the initial hearing will be conducted by the Bar and a Hearing officer it chose using rules it wrote in cooperation with the state Supreme Court. The initial determination to proceed against you is made by a Bar committee. Your first administrative review will be before a panel chosen by the Bar. Your final appeal will be before the WA Supreme Court which is asked to judge a Respondent who provides income to the business the Supreme Court administers in the event penalties are confirmed.

Can anyone say Separation of Powers? This is the type of conflict for which Bar brings charges on a regular basis.

It’s a fact of life that maintenance values are stronger than moral values and anyone who challenges the bar is punished. Attorney Karen Unger was pursued for over two years. It cost her between 70 and 80 thousand dollars to defend against bad charges which were finally dismissed by a hearing officer who said “there is nothing here” and added that Bar appeared to have sequestered evidence in Unger’s favor. That hearing officer was never used again. An attorney named Schaefer was disciplined for exposing a judge who took bribes. Anton Miller was disciplined for writing a satirical poem about the WA Supreme Court.

In 2006, the ABA did a study on attorney discipline in WA State. It ordered the bar to get discipline out of the state bar and said “the fox was in charge of the hen-house”. This was disregarded.
Robert Grundstein Suits in Washington and Vermont Federal Courts. See 12-35792 (9th circuit) and 13 CV 300 (Vermont Fed. District)

Grundstein is a resident of Vermont who had been on inactive WA status for over a decade. He came to the attention of the bar after he published an editorial about a corrupt judge in Ohio. This judge was subsequently removed from office during the FBI raids in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to the raids, a vendetta was pursued against Grundstein and perjured charges were brought against him. The prosecutor, judge, county sheriff and even the docket clerk connected to his case were removed from office. The prosecutor, sheriff and docket clerk were imprisoned.

Bar knew of this happenstance in 2007 and chose to not pursue charges. Grundstein spoke with the head of ODC, Douglas Ende and explained what was going on in Ohio. 4 years later, bar changed its mind and decided to bring charges. The Complaint asked for probation. Grundstein sued to enjoin the hearing in Federal Court since he claimed there was no venue or jurisdiction in WA State and that WA case law insisted the Bar must bring an action within one year of the time it learns of an offense. (there is no statute of limitations for bar actions!)

At hearing, bar amended its Complaint to ask for disbarment. This violates every rule on Due Process there is. The Complaint is not a moving target.

After hearing, it removed all Grundstein exculpatory evidence from the record. Bar engaged in obstruction of justice, spoliation of evidence, fraud and federal and state crimes. The evidence included letters of recommendation and decisive exhibits in his favor. There were 42 in all. The Bar claimed Grundstein didn’t submit any evidence, even though it was entered over 80 pages of transcript and provided to bar before, during and after hearing again. When asked about “Brady v Maryland”, the bar said “Brady” rights didn’t apply to the Bar.

The Hearing Officer (Lisa Hammel of “Williams and Williams”; principal, Kinnon Williams is on the State Bar Judicial Selection Committee) permitted this to happen and refused to hold Linda Eide, Office of Disciplinary Counsel prosecutor, responsible.

Grundstein filed for an appeal to the Supreme Court within 18 days. The Supreme Court would not hear an appeal despite the fact that its rules allow 30 days to file and that WA State is one of the few states whose Constitution guarantees the right of appeal.

To expose the criminal behavior of the State Bar, Linda Eide, Lisa Hammel and the entire structure, Grundstein sued in the W. District of WA and Vermont. The W. District of WA abstained. As it turns out, the judge made his career in King county and refused to embarrass the partisan relations of a politicized judiciary. Vermont should be an entirely different scenario.

Fascism does not necessarily include concentration camps, racism and shrill rhetoric. It’s the combination of political, economic and legal power in a small group of people only accountable to themselves. The judiciary becomes and interest group and rules on the basis of income distribution among favored people and the maintenance of professional status. This is worst where the judges are elected. WA State is one of only 4 states which has no limits on judge campaign contributions. The only people who can participate in such a legal system are the ones who should not have access to the administration and character of a legal system. The FBI raids on the legal administration in Cleveland, Ohio and the special prosecutions in Phoenix, Arizona were necessary to intercept what were essentially coup d’etats. Some say ” The Washington State Bar has proven that the best and most lucrative device for corrupt parties is an ethical system” End of Robert Grundstein’s writing. }

The WSBA refused comment on this story.

Commentary by the Gold Bar Reporter

The Gold Bar Reporters believe in “free speech”, ” right to freely associate” and ” freedom of the press” as Americans’ best tool or defense to fight corrupt government officials acting under color of law to accomplish and further their corrupt and unethical goals.

As a person criminally harassed using county resources while engaged in the practice of law by corrupt government officials like John Pennington ( Pennington and his RICO gang are being sued in federal court for violation of civil rights) Aaron Reardon, Jon Rudicil, Kevin Hulten, Joe Beavers, Crystal Hill Pennington, Michael Kenyon, Ann Marie Soto, Margaret King, Sean Reay, and several others named in a 42 USC 1983 complaint filed in US Federal District Court on February 18, 2014, writing this story, which is just part one of several more anecdotal stories to come, our system of government has failed and must be corrected/reformed by each and every one of us who cherish our founding fathers’ principle that “we the people” have an civic duty to investigate and expose government officials using every legally permissible tool.

RCW 42.56 is one of the best tools of all.
If every Snohomish County resident reading this blog ( totaling over 6,000 per day) requested access to email communication pursuant to RCW 42.56, Snohomish County would not be in the mess its in today ( the county is being sued as a result of Executive John Lovick’s inability to lead, people dying in his country jails, criminal harassment of a protected Whistleblower Tamara Dutton, John Pennington’s lack of education and skills to mitigate Oso before 41 residents became his latest victims ( most who were under the age of 14), abusing women and children.

Prosecutor Mark Roe ( who is also personal friend to John Pennington) refusing to investigate John Pennington’s mistress and Gold Bar Mayor Crystal Hill even after objective physician reports documented that Crystal Hill, while sitting Mayor of Gold Bar ( Nov. 2008), violently threw a six old child around like a rag doll leaving bruises on a defenseless child ( Dear Sweet Child, if You are reading this blog, please pick up the phone and call 911 each and every time Crystal Hill or Daddy lays on a hand on you. There is help available but YOU must call 911!) and continues to mentally, physically and emotionally abuse the same child with the assistance of Snohomish County Superior Court, and the Snohomish County Council’s admission that the County did not run a criminal background check on John Pennington prior to his political appointment as Snomhomish County’s Department of Emergency Management, could be a great place to live and build business once we rid the county of the criminals that are ruining it.
Perhaps 41 people in Oso, Washington, would still be alive today had the County Council performed a criminal background check on John Pennington ( a man named as a prime suspect in a child rape case from Colwitz County in 1992, convicted of criminal harassment, charged with beating up ex wife # 3 while she was in her third trimester of pregnancy.. a real Ted Bundy sociopath) or at least legislated that an important position like Emergency Management Director have the qualifications to perform basic functions of his job.

But instead, the County appoints a unqualified child/wife abuser named John Pennington and fails to perform a background check on Pennington. Tort claims were filed against Snohomish County as a direct result of his failure to respond for three days.

The PRA subjects every agency, including the WSBA, to release our records once requested to do so within five (5) business days. However, as of the today, lawyers sworn in to uphold Washington State laws, continue to violate and obstruct access to public records in favor of hiding crimes, and more importantly, violating the civil rights of the people they were sworn in to protect.

I disgracefully call Snohomish County Prosecutors’ Office “criminals in suits.” Such conduct is not acceptable under basic civil rights statutes and must be challenged at all cost to the American people. ” If good people do nothing, evil people flourish.” Our readers should know that our overall goal is to bring about change where change is resistant.

Corruption and abuse of power harms all of us, but mostly the weak, the sick, and the poor. As a former New York City police officer ( who we admire as one of the 20th Century’s Most Admired Public Officials in US history) said “ The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.” Frank Serpico
In my spare time, I will continue to file lawsuits seeking access to our records, turn over those records to others so they can sue unethical government officials, and I am now writing a book involving many Snohomish County corrupt government officials. My book will mix a little fiction with non-fiction and my main purpose will be to expose corrupt government officials, shine a heck of a lot of light on criminals like John Pennington and Mark Roe, add a little humor and emotion, and instigate good people into an activist role. 90 % of all lawyers are useless and unethical.

It’s the 10 % of the lawyers from open government that restore my faith in our founding fathers’ concept that that each and every one of us must address and expose corrupt government officials.

Thomas Jefferson, an Atheist and one hell of a great writer, once said ” in matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” Requesting public records pursuant to RCW 42.56 is a great way to uncover corruption inside government agencies.

Snohomish County Public Records can be requested by sending an email to: PublicRecordsOfficer@snoco.org. The Gold Bar Reporters enjoy requesting ” all email communication sent to or from John Pennington.” There is no limit under RCW 42.56 ( PRA) on how many records you can request, just keep it professional. After Carolyn Wiekel took over Information Services, we have seen a significant change in how the county responds to requests. Ms. Weikel’s efforts are admirable! I predict that Carolyn Weikel will be the next County Executive and I will contribute as much money as I can to ensure that corrupt politicians are removed from office.

you can buy his book here and it is free on Kindle Unlimited:

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New Jersey Court Fed. Ct. quashes gag order in Case

https://www.nationalparentsorganization.org/blog/22109-federal-judge-quashes-gag-order-by-new-jersey-family-court

In a decision of enormous importance, a New Jersey federal court has struck down a gag order issued by a family court in the Garden State (Bergen Dispatch, 12/19/14).

Back in 2011, Surender Malhan and his ex-wife were in Judge Nancy Sivilli’s family court on a child custody case. Malhan’s ex was given sole custody and Malhan wasn’t happy about the matter. More importantly, he wasn’t happy about the process by which he’d lost contact with his children. So he and four other aggrieved parents filed a class action lawsuit claiming deprivation of their right to due process of law by the family courts of New Jersey.

That interested the New Jersey affiliate of a major national television company. It wanted to do a story on the abuses perpetrated by judges in family courts, so the reporters contacted Malhan for an interview.

In response, Malhan’s wife initiated proceedings against Malhan, which resulted in Judge Sivilli entering a Gag Order. The Gag Order reads, in pertinent part:

All parties are hereby enjoined and restrained without prejudice from speaking with, appearing for an interview, or otherwise discussing, the parties’ marriage, their pending divorce, the within litigation, or the parties children or making any derogatory or negative statements about the other parties to any reporters, journalists, newscasters, or other agents/employees of newspapers or other media outlets on the grounds that it is not in the best interest of the children to have the parties’ divorce litigation discussed in a public forum or to have public disparaging statements made about any party by the other party.

In short, Judge Sivilli issued an astonishingly sweeping order preventing the parties from making any statement about the case or anyone involved in it to the news media. Importantly, Sivilli justified her order on “the best interest of the children.” In so doing, she sent a clear message to every family court and juvenile court in the country that those words trump the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

As we know, family courts justify everything they do regarding children as in their best interests, even when that’s flagrantly untrue. What those judges don’t seem to grasp is that the simple intoning of the mantra, “the best interests of the child,” is insufficient to make their orders actually function toward that laudable end. The simple truth is that very much of what those courts do is diametrically opposed to children’s interests. As but one example, social science demonstrates that equal – or near equal – parenting is best for children as long as the parents are fit to care for them. But equal parenting orders by family courts are somewhere between rare and non-existent, despite most parents being entirely fit and capable of caring for their kids.

In much the same way that family courts issue parenting orders based on no social science, Sivilli’s order also lacks any empirical basis. She asserted a general claim that publicity is bad for kids in divorce and child custody matters, but if there’s any evidence for the proposition, I certainly haven’t seen it, nor have I seen it cited anywhere including in Sivilli’s order.

As to the order’s dubious constitutionality, it’s true that courts sometimes issue perfectly legal orders prohibiting discussion of a pending case. Often that’s true of criminal cases in which undue publicity may tend to influence the pre-conceived ideas about the case of potential jurors. But all prior restraints on speech are required by Supreme Court precedent to be narrowly tailored in order to effect the least restriction possible. Clearly Sivilli’s failed that test. For example, she could have allowed Malhan to describe his experiences but use pseudonyms for him, his ex and their kids. But instead, she spread her net far wider than necessary.

So Sivilli’s order looks very much like many orders that come out of family courts. It was little more than a frank violation of a parent’s rights papered over by words with no scientific basis.

But an order is an order, and Malhan was stuck with it. But the Bergen Dispatch was not. A reporter for the paper, Paul Nichols, went to federal court to try to quash the plainly unconstitutional order. And Federal District Judge William J. Martini did just that.

Nichols wishes to interview Malhan about his experiences in family court, which according to Nichols, “are a matter of public interest.”

Nichols contends that that he is unable to interview Malhan because the Gag Order restricts Malhan from saying anything that relates to his divorce proceedings. He alleges that Judge Sivilli entered the Gag Order without conducting any meaningful weighing of the First Amendment interests at stake.

According to Nichols, Judge Sivilli did not hold a plenary hearing and made no specific findings as to why a gag order was required in this particular case; instead, she issued the Gag Order “based on a generalized finding that publicity in family court is not in the best interests of children.”

On Friday Judge Martini denied Sivilli’s motion to dismiss the case finding “The Court therefore rejects Defendants’ argument that Nichols has failed to adequately allege a First Amendment violation”.

But Judge Martini’s overturning of the gag order is more important still.

In the Court’s opinion Martini was clear that the violation of rights that occurred when Judge Sivilli issued a sweeping gag order was not an issue about the rights of the press, it is a violation of the right of free speech of both Nichols and Surender Malhan.

The importance of that can scarcely be overstated. What Martini is saying is that the right that Judge Sivilli’s order violated is not a right of the press, but a right of the litigants in a child custody proceeding. If the right were the news media’s, in all but the rarest of cases, there’s be no Bergen Dispatch, Houston Chronicle, Toledo Blade or Los Angeles Times to complain about it. The simple fact is that there are far too many child custody cases for the press to cover and most of them aren’t newsworthy enough to find a place in the limited space available. So if the right infringed by Sivilli’s order were that of the news media, gag orders of the kind would rarely be challenged.

But since the right is that of the litigant Malhan, it’s the right of every litigant in similar situation. (Of course Judge Martini’s order doesn’t extend beyond his jurisdiction in New Jersey, but the principle extends throughout the country.) Wherever the reasoning Martini used applies, no parent can be prohibited by a family court judge from speaking out about his/her case.

This is no abstract principle of law; far from it. The idea that governmental authorities have the power to act in secret, far from the prying eyes of the public and the press is pernicious in the extreme. Since time immemorial, governments have often claimed the power to do so and they continue even in the face of a Constitution that makes no secret of its intention to limit governmental power and “sunshine laws” that plump for the right of We the People to know what our elected officials are up to.

The “best interests of children” is the latest excuse for hiding the actions of governmental officials from the public. I’ve complained often about the practice by child protective authorities, and I’ve done the same about laws in the United Kingdom that make virtually all child-related proceedings secret. Countless others have done the same, for very good reasons.

And ironically, those reasons are directly related to the actual best interests of children. Put simply, the more we know about what governmental officials are doing in the name of children, the better for children. It is public scrutiny of those actions, not public ignorance of them that provides the best chance of shielding children from harm. What the wall of secrecy inevitably begets is malfeasance on the part of those very officials hidden from view. How could it not? When those officials know that their behavior can’t be seen, can’t be monitored by outsiders, they know as well that mistakes and even intentional wrongdoing will remain invisible, unknown.

We see this time and again with Child Protective Services. Almost daily we see cases in which children who were known to be at risk were allowed by CPS caseworkers to be severely injured or even killed. But we only see those cases after the fact because CPS agencies operate mostly in secret. Often the only reason we know about them at all is because the situation has become so bad that independent investigators or auditors have been brought in to correct matters.

And so it is with Judge Sivilli’s order. She attempted to justify her prohibition on Malhan’s right of free speech by her nod to the best interests of children, but here’s the reality:

In a 2011 Judge Sivilli stripped Surender Malhan, a New Jersey father, of his custody rights on a mere two hours’ notice without affording him an opportunity to refute his estranged wife’s allegations.

Sivilli prohibited Malhan from cross examining his wife or presenting physical evidence that would further demonstrate his parental fitness. The mother retained sole custody of the children for sixteen months until she agreed to joint custody in June 2012; during that time Malhan was never granted a plenary hearing.

As seems to be invariably the case, it wasn’t the kids Sivilli was protecting, it was herself. She’d behaved outrageously on the bench.  She’d denied Malhan even the pretense of due process of law. And of course, in the process, she’d denied the children in whose “best interests” she claimed to be acting, any contact with their father. Just as with CPS, secrecy that’s supposedly to benefit children ends up doing the opposite.

This is a case to follow. One of the reasons U.S. family courts are fairer than those in the U.K. is that they don’t function in secret. We must not allow those courts to recede behind a veil of secrecy woven by those courts themselves in the form of ad hoc orders gagging litigants. Judge Martini did the right thing. This concept of secrecy in family courts must not be allowed to gain a foothold in this country.

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From Ken Ditkowsky

To: Cook County States Attorney <statesattorney@cookcountyil.gov>
Cc: Andy Ostrowski <ajo@bsolaw.com>,
Subject: Re: Justice Served with Andy Ostrowski – disciplined lawyer series – lawyers for judicial reform
Date: Feb 19, 2016 10:47 AM
From:   Ken Ditkowsky
To:    States Attorney of Cook County and law enforcement
Date:  February 19, 2016
Subject:     Lack of protection for senior citizens and failure to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
We here in America have a ‘dirty little secret.’    We have Laws designed to protect everyone including the elderly and the disabled; however, when the political or judicial elite are involved the ‘fix’ is in.    For instance, a well-known United States senator got drunk, drove his vehicle into the ocean and his paramour was killed.    In another situation our President was found to have been taking liberties with a particular young woman who he became acquainted with during the employment relationship.   In both situations the consequences to the miscreant were slight.   A well-organized political cadre banded together to protect the offender *****.
Here in Chicago a nephew of the mayor “killed” another person right out in public and on the street.    The cover-up was legend and police officers hurled their bodies on the pyre to protect the politically clouted individual.     A teenage was allegedly observed slashing tires and a police officer pulled his gun and shot the youth 16 times.   The teen was killed; however, to protect the Mayor the Chicago media, Activists of all stripes and colors,  law enforcement groups, political figures – including the mayor’s opponents, and ***** suddenly went blind and deaf.     Not only was no mention of this assassination uttered, but the City Council approved a $5 million dollars ‘gratuity’ to certain key members of the family that ‘might’ have eligibility to make the outrage public.    (This family had literally abandoned the youth and had only a relation to him by birth)    After the mayor was safely re-elected did someone notice the killing?    Outrage flows from the mouths of the very people who should have acted when they first observed this senseless homicide.
In a similar manner we hear from our political leaders of their concern for the elderly and the disabled.    They tell us that they are fighting so that the elderly retain social security!     Big deal!
Yes, there are statutes enacted designed to protect the elderly and the disabled.   These include ADA.    The tragedy is that these statutes are ignored and corrupt judges, lawyers, public officials, judicial officials and the like have turned humane measures into profit centers.     The elder cleansing industry is a prime example.    Therein a senior citizen is herded into a guardianship so that he/she may be isolated from family and prior associations so that her liberty and her assets can be appropriated by a corrupt guardian working in conjunction with a corrupt judge, corrupt guardians ad litem – and other judicial officials.     The Mary Sykes case 09 P 4585 and the Alice Gore cases are prime examples of how the process works.    Full analysis and facts are found on the MaryGSykes and Probate Sharks blogs.
I am writing you (law enforcement) because we are reaching critical mass.    The Government Accounting Office is reported by the NASGA blog to be writing their fifth report to Congress concerning this Unconstitutional assault on the Rights, Privileges and Immunities of the elderly and the criminal conduct condoned by the Courts.
Here in Illinois our statute provides a clear statement as to how guardianship is to be used, to wit:
(b) Guardianship shall be utilized only as is necessary to promote the well-being of the person with a disability, to protect him from neglect, exploitation, or abuse, and to encourage development of his maximum self-reliance and independence. Guardianship shall be ordered only to the extent necessitated by the individual’s actual mental, physical and adaptive limitations. 755 ILCS 5/11a – 3 b.
 
An examination of the cases coming out of the Circuit Court of Cook County, and in particular the Sykes and Gore case makes it clear that guardianship is utilized more often for the profit and well-being of certain clout have lawyers and judges.       (I mention Gore   because not onlyis an example of over-reaching and pure fraud on the part of the court appointed guardian ad litem, but the extreme avarice exemplified by the abuse of Mrs. Gore’s family and her person.     Right here in Cook County our local Nazis went gold prospecting in Mrs. Gore’s mouth to recover the gold in her teeth)
Families have suffered pain as their loved ones were openly and notoriously exploited.     In the Sykes case the record is clear with the guardian’s attorney and the two guardian ad litem openly and notorious seeking from corrupt judges the suppression of the First Amendment.    Cries an anguish were heard from the Courtroom as these judicial officials decried the fact that family members should to record on video et al images of Mary Sykes.   The guardian could be heard crying that the privacy of Mary Sykes was being violated when she posed with her loved ones or made an appeal for her prior life, her liberty, her property and her dignity.     Unfortunately, the miscreants prevailed and even the Naperville Police Department acted to create a wall of ignorance.     But, they were not entirely successful and on the MaryGSykes blog are videos that demonstrate that:
Mary Sykes was not only competent, but she had no need of a guardian.   Certainly she had no need of a guardian who was adverse to her and Mary filed a verified petition seeking an order of protection from.
Mary was objecting to the guardianship, recognized it for what it was and her statutory and constitutional rights were open and notoriously violated.
Attempts have been made to intimidate JoAnne Denison who authors the blog and accepts communicates from others who object to the felonies associated with and that constitute the crime of ELDER CLEANSING.
Few videos reach the public consciousness and thus, the carnage and exploitation of the elderly and the disabled continues.    Ms. Kristi Hood obtained a video that must be seen to be believed.    While the subjects of the video are not from Illinois, the very same carnage is occurring in Illinois.    The cite to the video is as follows:
 
The video deals with special circumstances  – hospice, but,  if you make an unannounced and unscheduled visit to a nursing home operated by one of the politically clouted 18 USCA 371 and 18 USCA 242 co-conspirators you can view for yourself the conditions depicted in the video.     Our government through government programs supports the blatant abuse of the elderly.   Our judiciary appoints guardians (and guardians ad litem) to assist in the financing, the exploitation, and the abuse.
Illinois and the several States all have laws that prohibit violation of civil rights, extortion, intimidation, homicide etc., but the laws are not enforced to protect the elderly or the disabled – they are enforced in such a way as to accommodate theft, breach of fiduciary relationship, and homicide.     The guardians earn substantial commissions for placing their wards in facilities of assisted living (nursing homes) and the wild scramble begins.     While the victims lie in their own urine the miscreants (and all of them) rack up outrageous fees, commission, kickbacks, and schemes designed to strip even the wealthiest of victims of every dime he/she has accumulated.      (In other essays I pointed out how this is done and will no repeat it here, however, you can find reprints on various blogs including MaryGSykes, Probate Sharks, NASGA etc.)
When Seth Gillman, last Tuesday pleaded guilty to stealing over $100,000,000 from government hospice programs I could not find a single mention of the government prosecution and plea on the printed or other news media publications.     Of course, a similar situation occurred when Omnicare Inc. was fined $150,000,000 plus and a major stockholder was also fined more than a million dollars.     (In the Omnicare situation – there was some mention of it, but so slight as to be not significant)    When Omnicare was sold shortly thereafter to CVS pharmacy for 12.4 billion dollars few words mentioned this transaction.    The pubic is being kept ignorant of the massive scope and the incredible pecuniary benefits that the miscreants are enjoying.      IT FURTHER APPEARS THAT THEY ENJOY these benefits tax free as there is no mention of tax enforcement of the taxable events of breach of fiduciary relationship.
No cover-up can be successful unless the legal profession agrees to be part of it.    To assure that the legal profession attorns the lawyer disciplinary commissions nationwide and here in Chicago particularly have mobilized to enforce lawyer silence.       JoAnne Denison was slapped with an interim suspension for operating the MaryGSykes blog.     I received a four year suspension for demanding an HONEST INVESTIGATION and for communicating my demand to the United States Attorney General.        The First Amendment and Article 1 of the Illinois Constitution have been trashed!     Rule 8.3 and 18 USCA 4 have been unilaterally abrogated.
Lawyers are afraid to speak up!      Some are fighting back, but, most attorn to the crimes.
I write you (Law Enforcement) as our republic is being attacked from within and if legitimate law enforcement malingers we will lose our democracy.    Today, the Holocaust is targeting the elderly and the disabled.    Tomorrow ******
 

 

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

Remaining questions from today’s interview with Ken Ditkowsky

The time that both Ken and I have had on the wrongfully “Disciplined Lawyer” series was simply too short to answer all the questions the viewers had, so below answers more of the questions received.

To: Andy Ostrowski <ajo@bsolaw.com>,….
Subject: Re: Justice Served with Andy Ostrowski – disciplined lawyer series – lawyers for judicial reform
Date: Feb 18, 2016 9:57 PM
Attachments: unknown-2 KB
MY ANSWERS ARE IN RED
The most important point is true for not only me, but you too is that the charges made by the lawyer disciplinary commission are beyond the scope of their jurisdiction.    In particular all statements made by any citizen that relate to political or content related speech is protected by the First Amendment.     I cite Rosemond vs. Markham , and Alvarez as authority.

Rosemond is directly on point, and Alvarez pointed out that the statements made are protected even if untrue.    My statements are backed up by affidavits and the Court files.   As  I never was of record in any of the elder cleansing cases under discussion I enjoy all the rights of citizenship.   However even lawyers of record cannot be censored under both the Illinois and the Federal Constitution.

The foregoing not withstanding, assume that I was upset and called the Judge a ******.   He could hold me in contempt.   The statement might be considered an act and therefore  would be an exception to the First Amendment protection for the purpose of contempt.    The truth of my charge that the judge might be a defense, but, depending on my demeanor it might      Similarly if I overtly lied to the judge I might be held in contempt.    However,the Lawyer Disciplinary Board has no jurisdiction to act as a disciplinarian or censor of my speech.   They regulate conduct – not speech and their regulation is narrow or there  would be a deprivation of citizen rights of not only me but my client.

A Florida lawyer had a judge get all bent out of shape when the judge reduced a jury verdict. He did not hold the lawyer in contempt and therefore admitted that the lawyer’s behavior was acceptable.    The Florida Bar in an ultra vires action punished the lawyer and therefore violated the rights of not only the lawyer but his client.   The action of the Florida Bar was not only wrongful, but if a crime had been committed by the other side subjected itself to 18 USCA 371 liability.

In light of the Sykes case file in my case and in Joanne’s case our collective action was mandated by Rule 8.3 and 18 USCA 4.    

NB – Alvarez extends the Right of Free Speech to even untrue statements.    lawyer disciplinary proceedings require the commission to prove the misconduct by clear and convincing evidence.   Writing e-mails and letters requesting an HONEST INVESTIGATION is not misconduct – it certainly is not akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater.* 

Ken Ditkowsky

www.ditkowskylawoffice.com

*That is, unless, as Ken pointed out, the theater is filled with crooked politicians, lawyers and judges, only then is this blog akin to crying out “fire” in that theater.

Questions from the listeners to Andy Ostroski’s blog:

Ken, I thought your interview was great this evening, and have received good feedback on it.  I did, however, in addressing the lawyer discipline issues, specifically, get the following questions submitted, which I think are pertinent, and think that everyone addressing their situation should address.  I am passing them along, and would appreciate your response, if you are so inclined:
What were the fact charges against Ken?   The stated charges by the ARDC was that I was defaming judges with untrue statements.   When I sent out an interrogatory asking specifically what statements they claimed were not true, they refused to answer the specifics.    One of the major problems they had was the file in the Sykes was refuted any claim that I was not telling the truth – thus it was not allowed to be subpoenaed   We also filed affidavits – the affidavit was ignored.
What were the code provisions?   I believe it was 8.2 and 8.4.   Rule 8.3 which addressed the issue and made my conduct mandatory was of course ignored. 
Did he get an appeal?    The Administrative proceedings were rigged the Supreme Court of Illinois and SCOTUS would not hear appeals.
What did the Disciplinary Complaint Say?   It can be read on the IARDC website
What Evidence did the bar use to support its charges?  THE COMMISSION PRESENTED MY COMMUNICATIONS DEMANDING AN HONEST AND COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION.
 
Did he have an attorney? I did have an attorney; however, on day one it was apparent that the fix was in.     
How can he prove that he was suspended because of his statements?   There is a letter from GAL  Cynthia Farenga to the the IARDC attorney who ultimately represented the administrator demanding such action – and the fact that the evidence concentrated on the fact that I made repeated demands for an Honest investigation.     Most pregnant was the question asked of me if I was repentant for making my demand directly to the Attorney General of the United States.  
 

Listen to Ken Ditkowsky–on air tonight 5 pm CST–Disciplined Lawyer series

Atty Ken Ditkowsky will be on air tonight talking about his wrongful discipline of a 4 year suspension for talking about the Mary G Sykes 09 P 4585 case in Cook County where an elderly 90 year old woman was held against her will in a 5 year guardianship, and after millions were stripped illegally from her assets, the money was gone and she was narcotized to death.

check out TwigsCafeRadio.com at 5 pm and click on Andy Ostrowski show.

From Ken:
Subject: Our discussion scheduled for tonight.

Every lawyer when he is sworn in by the State Supreme Court agrees to and takes an oath to defend the Constitution.   The lawyers who reside in the nadir of the profession have trouble finding jobs doing real live law work and thus the bottom level obtain employment at the Lawyer disciplinary commissions.   It is thus to be expected that some of the lawyers at the IARDC and other disciplinary commissions fail to understand their jobs and their Constitutional responsibilities.    Such is the only explanation that can be made for the recent assaults by the IARDC on basic core values and Constitutional protections.    Even a pre-teen is fully aware that JoAnne Denision’s and my call for an HONEST INVESTIGATION is protected by the First Amendment and Article 1 of the Illinois Constitution.    Indeed, the fact that you were even asked about your assembly with people like yours truly is outrageous.   The First Amendment protects the right of association and assembly – and government inquiry into who your friends are, who you talk to, and who you associate with are improper inquiry.
The Civil Rights division of the Justice Department pursuant to 18 USCA 241 and 18 USCA 242 should investigate the use of public money to suppress Free Speech.
The Elder Cleansing scandal is enlightening as the law is so clear —  in America such conduct is a felony and cannot be tolerated.
the guardian law is derived from the ancient Chancery doctrine of parens patrie.    (Society has an obligation to protect those in society who cannot do so for themselves).    The Chancellor dealt with this problem, however, her in America the legislature passed laws to protect the disabled person and to prevent the travesty that we now face.    At the Federal Level the Americans With Disabilities Act was passed to provide a National mechanism to see that a disability did not result in a loss of core citizen rights, privileges etc.   At the State level we had more specific statutes.   Most states adopted the uniform acts.   The Illinois law is found at 755 ILCS 5/11a – 1 et seq.    This act limits the jurisdiction of the Court.   The act explains:
(755 ILCS 5/11a-3) (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 11a-3) 
 
    Sec. 11a-3. Adjudication of disability; Power to appoint guardian.
 

    (a) Upon the filing of a petition by a reputable person or by the alleged person with a disability himself or on its own motion, the court may adjudge a person to be a person with a disability, but only if it has been demonstrated by clear and convincing evidence that the person is a person with a disability as defined in Section 11a-2. If the court adjudges a person to be a person with a disability, the court may appoint (1) a guardian of his person, if it has been demonstrated by clear and convincing evidence that because of his disability he lacks sufficient understanding or capacity to make or communicate responsible decisions concerning the care of his person, or (2) a guardian of his estate, if it has been demonstrated by clear and convincing evidence that because of his disability he is unable to manage his estate or financial affairs, or (3) a guardian of his person and of his estate. 

 
    (b) Guardianship shall be utilized only as is necessary to promote the well-being of the person with a disability, to protect him from neglect, exploitation, or abuse, and to encourage development of his maximum self-reliance and independence.Guardianship shall be ordered only to the extent necessitated by the individual's actual mental, physical and adaptive limitations. 
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
I’ve emphasized the important sections of the Statute!    I do so because in the Mary Sykes case there was no hearing as to her competency, and the proceedings were by ambush rather than notice.   Judge Connors at page 90 and following of her evidence deposition testified that if someone had informed her of the deficiencies (as to jurisdiction) she would have stopped the proceedings and corrected the technicalities – however, she would have reached the same result.    [IN THE SYKES CASE THERE WAS NO SUMMONS, NO NOTICE, AND NO HEARING – Adam Stern admitted in an e-mail to Gloria Sykes that he got together with the 2nd GAL and the attorney for the petitioner, they drafted an order and Judge Connors signed it! ]
 
The aforesaid admission that she was ‘wired’ has given rise to no more notice than the Seth Gillman plea of guilty to over 100 million dollars in theft from the United STates of America in his personal health care fraud.   The IARDC, the Judicial Inquiry Board and the press are silent and uncaring as to both assaults on citizen rights!     Is it any wonder why our call for an HONEST INVESTIGATION promulgated disciplinary action by the IARDC against both JoAnne and myself!      
 
Ken Ditkowsky