Dear Readers;

As many of you know, I moved from Fremont to Touhy to help out Ken Ditkowsky when the ARDC suddenly, and without warning summarily suspended his law license, I moved to his offices and helped the best I could with transferring his cases and making sure that clients were not disappointed or left behind in the wake of Ken’s being honest and truthful, despite all odds.

Subsequently, Ken’s office was flooded with sewage (black water) due to a broken stack pipe.  It happened once when I came (about mid March) and then because they did not replace the bathroom stacks, it happened again, about mid May.  Landlord (Imperial) did not seem to care much, and they did no black water remediation the second time around, so after a couple of weeks, in the heat and humidity, sever mold started to grow.  Ken and I emailed building management, but received no response. Then, Ken’s long time friend and CPA, Joe Dubow got quite ill and had to leave every day very early due to exhaustion.  He thought it was a cold.  He went to his doctor.  I gave him Lypospheric vitamin C, plenty of it, and despite this, he was very ill. I told him if that didn’t knock it out, it had to be something, very, very serious.  It was. It was the black water mold.

To shorten the story, I have to move again. Sigh.  But all during this time, I will continue to blog and not let any of my probate and court corruption victims down. So continue to send your stories and comments and I will help you all out and continue to publish during yet a 3rd move.

I can’t stay here, so we’re moving to the 1st floor, which is very good because many probate victims come in wheel chairs.  I now have plenty of parking, which is not the case with 1512 N Fremont, as many of you will recall.  That building also had severe problems in that I work all hours, often leave late at night and that neighborhood isn’t all that great.  Niles is much better.  Plus, there is tons of parking out back here.  And it’s 10 min. from my house.  Many benefits all around.

If anyone has time and ability, I will be moving in items from my house and garage which were stored during this transition period.  I also have a POD with all my files (and your files) which will be arriving first thing tomorrow.  I will be here.  Then I have a hearing in the afternoon.  Sigh.  Email me if you can help me move or you know of anyone free or cheap (ie, free pizza or Al’s Beef, which is right next door).

So bring me your poor, your tired (of court) and weary (of court corruption) and I will help you.  I spend tons of time on helping people.  Now I need a bit of help moving to my new office so I can continue to do good work for the many victims of corruption in the Cook County Court system and nationwide.

If you can’t do this because you lack funds or physical strength, just let me know and I will pray for you.

joanne

From: ginny johnson
Sent: Jul 16, 2014 12:15 AM
To: ginny johnson
Subject: Clerk of Superior Court Lorrin Freeman and her Rubber Stamp
This was sent to the Clerk of Superior Court, tho I believe most likely the Presiding Judge is responsible and should ban all the players from his or her courtrooms.

• hitting golf balls
• exercising 3 days a week 30 min. riding a bike, lifting weights, laughing
• living at his home, eating great home cooked meals, going to lunch w friends
• playing with his dog
• visiting neighbors of 40
• Driving his car
• No Cancer
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• No Broken Bones
• No Arthritis
• No Diabetes
• No Stress
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• Just happy living with his daughter Ginny

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http://www.acslaw.org/ACS%20Justice%20at%20Risk%20(FINAL)%206_10_13.pdf

Janet says the following discussions will be featured at 12:30 pm in chicago in about 20 min.

the details:

WZRD is on the air in Chicago at 88.3 FM.

I will be discussing my book, EXILE, with particular attention to the guardianship issue, along with the plethora of other issues raised in my book.

Call in number to be on the air is 773.442.4516 Thanks!  Calls will be taken after about one hour of show programming.

Janet P

From: kenneth ditkowsky [Edit Address Book]
To: JoAnne M Denison , JK, Lucius Verenus Probate Sharks , Bev Cooper Probate Sharks
Subject: Re: Legal Real Estate Fraud
Date: Jul 13, 2014 6:35 AM
of course publish – this fraud has to stop. One way to make it stop is to take the profit out of it.

As you know my family is not unknown within the Jewish community of Chicago. My uncle owned a company known as Society Cleaners, Hyde Park Laundry etc. My father, and two uncles were well known in the Medical field.

Thus, it was not unexpected that as the years progressed I would obtain some business from or related to the nursing home cartel. One afternoon a young woman came into the office with a ‘lawyer letter.’ It seems that she was the beneficiary of a will, and assignments of some valuable real estate here in Chicago and there were claimants in New York who had the audacity to suggest that some undue influence had occurred and their father’s entire estate was left to this woman and not his own children.

It seems that the father, after his wife of some forty years had died, met another woman married her and moved to Chicago. Unfortunately, the second marriage estranged him from his children and visits were limited to some telephone calls and annual get togethers The 2nd wife found her aging husband’s health to be a problem and placed him into a nursing home for extended care. Soon afterwards she died and Daddy became flotsam. Rich flotsam, but nevertheless prey to the worthy cabal.

I do not know how the Will and the transfers took place, but I do know that they did and the letter was a fly in the ointment. The ‘tale’ that the young woman befriended the lonely old man who felt abandoned by his family and **** did not ring credible. I had visited an elderly client laying in his own urine in the nursing home operated by the young woman’s father! A telephone call to the lawyer in New York verified my suspicions and I informed the lady that I was not interested in representing her. (Her retainer was very attractive, but I have never been in the business of exploiting anyone)

Looking back it is very clear to me that the family was discouraged from visiting father, not that they were anxious to do so – he was a pain – and he was a 1000 miles away. They had their own complicated lives. It did not take much to gain the victim’s confidence and to get him to sign over his estate and this was done. The F estate in Florida involving Miriam Solo has many similar aspects.

Illinois enacted its guardianship statute to protect the ward from this type of exploitation. (It says so in 755 ILCS 5/11a – 3). When JUdges do not read the statute they administer and guardians are unprincipled the elder cleansers have a field day. When Mr. Larkin and the IARDC openly and notoriously promulgate a ‘cover up’ of the criminal conduct the public severely harmed. This is the reason the word has to get out and we need proactive law enforcement. The miscreants and their protectors must be made examples of and should spend some time in orange jumpsuits.

Yes – publish. Let’s make elder cleansing as difficult as possible.

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

From: JoAnne M Denison
To: kenneth ditkowsky ; JK; Lucius Verenus Probate Sharks ; Bev Cooper Probate Sharks
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2014 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: Legal Real Estate Fraud

Ken and Joe, very good, okay to publish?

And I have heard that properties can go thru 3 or 4 layers of resale in probate to keep it quiet.

To start, deal no.1, they let the grass and weeds grow, they leave dirt on the walls, they do not repaint. Appliances are stripped from the premises and sold separately on the cheap at estate sales where they are not washed or refurbished. Window treatments not updated and not removed. The house is shut tight and water left to drip in the bathroom so it gets a musty smell. Spider webs and dust balls blossom and flourish. Newspaper is put on windows, sometimes some are broken and boarded up. The real pros also cut the phone lines, cable lines, etc. Perhaps they can shut off or turn down the heat and get some pipes to burst and make a mess which is never fixed. Then, when the house is properly krausened, it is put on the market, BUT the realtor is in bed with the powers that be and no one can get a showing or buyers are told there was a murder there or anything to get rid of legit buyers. Whatever it takes. 6 months on the market and bad photos, they do a 30-50% deal. probate judge is “horrified” by conditions but is told there is not enough money for repairs (even if there is money, she is in on it too because these are powerful attorneys who got her there or can keep her there) After that first sale, then, then shill no. 2 paints, cuts grass, fixes windows, mess from burst pipes, the house is clean, but outdated. The musty smell may still be there. The home is sold time no. 2 for 70% of appraised value. Finally “finishing shill” no. 3 makes a full blown investment with a modern kitchens and baths, the home is detailed and 100 percent cleaned up. It is sold for 100 to 110 per cent of it’s value, often to a VA or HUD buyer. 3nd shill, second VIG. *very important gain”
The cycle is complete. It took 2 years so no one suspects, no one can say anything.

But if you look at the property records of certain people, generally relatives of probate lawyers (cynthia farenga/michael crowley) there are hundreds of “property transactions” in 6 or 7 years. plenty of vigs to go around.

The FBI does not see or hear anything, nor do the states attorneys. Since they’re really not taking the FBI “minimum” of $500k in any particular deal, it’s much harder, if not impossible to trace.

But the probate attorneys and relatives are beholding to some real goons and thugs in the international cartel of probate shenanigans. if you speak or hint about the cartel, you are whacked. permanently.

joanne

—–Original Message—–
From: kenneth ditkowsky
Sent: Jul 12, 2014 8:51 PM
To: JK
Subject: Re: Legal Real Estate Fraud

The answer is no. The most profit is obtained by selling the real estate at the lowest possible price to a nominee. the nominee then holds the property until it can be maximized and then it is resold at profit.

In Sykes the home of Mary was appraised prior to the guardianship at 700 K. Most of the value was in the land. The nominee sale was for approx. 300K. The nominee when the smoke clears will sell the real estate for 700k and obtain a 400 k profit to be divided amongst the miscreants.

As the Court will rubber stamp the transactions the theft is full proof.

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

From: a blog fan
To: kenneth ditkowsky
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2014 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: Legal Real Estate Fraud

The question is, why aren’t the probate attorneys (who would receive a percentage of a deal in probate) and their cronys interested in getting the “best deal” possible?

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:38 AM, kenneth ditkowsky wrote:

Unfortunately there are few in law enforcement who are not and were not aware of the scam that the probate criminals use in obtaining profits from a ‘ward’s’ real estate. It has been another of those ‘dirty little secrets’ that no one talks about. The only distinction between today and yesterday is the fact that Attorney regulatory authorities are actively enforcing a code of silence to protect the profiting attorneys and their co=conspirators.

When I first got into the practice of law I created a stir by thwarting one of these scenarios. I was involved in partition lawsuit. [This is a lawsuit in which two joint tenants have a dispute and as they cannot agree to a buy out, or the sale of the property one of the two owners files a suit to compel the sale] I represented the defendant who was a joint owner of a farm. The Court correctly ruled that as both the parties were joint owners (Joint tenancy) pursuant to statute the court could sell the property. The appraisal was ordered by the commissioner and as I was a novice a low ball appraisal was submitted to the court.

As you probably know I had some experience that I had not made public and I sat quietly by and waited to be raped. The Court approved the appraisal and the property was set for sale. The minimum bid was 65% of the appraised value. The appraised value was about 60% of value. To bid you have to meet certain criterion and settlement is in two stages – at closing 10% in cash or equivalent and 10 days payment in full.

On the day of sale, out of nowhere I bid the actual value of the real estate. The shill who had been instructed to bid $100.00 above whatever my first bid was, immediately increased the bid by $100.00. An onlooker who knew me could not help himself and laughed out-loud. The trap had been sprung, and now the games player had been outfoxed by his own avarice. My client was off the hook and guaranteed a fair price. I made no further bids.

Today I could not get away with such a stunt, and my bid would have been the winning bid; however, the experienced attorneys on the other side anticipated my move and had prepared for it. The expected that I had authority for one or two bids and I would low ball on bid 1. No one expected a full price bid!

For weeks afterwards the gambit was laughed over at the courthouse. Even my opponent was so amused by the gambit he told my uncle about it at a party and laughed at being outfoxed by such a novice as me. My uncle did not tell him about my employment or the training that I was receiving. (The case settled not because of anything that I did or did not do, but because a few days later just prior to a settlement conference President Kennedy was killed. The death of the president placed such a pall over all of us that when I arrived at the settlement conference the other attorney said make me your best offer – I did and he accepted it on behalf of his client.)

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

from Ken Ditkowsky, who, now retired from active practice, courtesy of the IARDC is now digging deeper and deeper into the problem and finding more amazing facts about Elder Cleansing and in particular, its International nature.

The Elder Cleansing Cartel

It is not the elected official who engages in mischief who is sinister, it is the nameless faceless bureaucrat who implements the policy who frustrates and confounds us. Sometimes however we are fortunate to be able to zero in on some of the bad guys, expose them and bring them to justice.
The health care frauds are pervasive. The cartel has correctly recognized that health care is one of those untouchable subjects. To be against furnishing health care to the unwashed flotsam is not only unthinkable but un-American. Cradle to the grave health care is mandated by modern society even if shortens the life of many. I am not debating the policy as it is a given; however, it does foster a new type of human parasite.
This individual is not a mafia don, but a well-educated member of society who is the mainstay of his ‘church’ and a pillar of his community – as well as a cancer. He is lauded for his contributions to charity at the very moment his minions are prospecting in the mouth of victim for her gold filings. His minions include lawyers, doctors, members of the public, political elite, and a host of others. Dutifully they work toward on goal – acquiring wealth! [And invoking a Code of Attorney Silence, those who violate it are severely and gruelingly put on trial, given no discovery, and then skewered worse than an attorney thief of $90 million (Seth Gillman is still not prosecuted by the ARDC nor his license removed).]
Operationally, the Enron model is followed and any phase of the criminal enterprise that is uncovered by law enforcement appears to be a separate independent situation divorced from the other corporations. Thus, when an Omnicare situation is filed 150 million dollars and there is a bit a publicity the core operation and its tentacles are safe and protected.
The structure of the Cartel varies slightly from area to area, but it appears that model is so well thought out that the miscreants have essentially created a shadow society that is eating away at the our Constitution and political structure – all at our expense.
Starting with a ‘cash cow’ operation such as a Hospice facility or Nursing home the ‘don’ obtains the lauding acknowledgement of his community for his self-dedication and charitable contributions. The ‘cash cow’ is financed by solicitation and participation by members of community. The “don” informs his investors that he is forming a ‘health care’ facility (nursing home or hospice) and he needs ‘limited partners.’ He is of course picked the investors because they have a few dollars and they have some influence in the community. They are promised a ‘share in the business’ and are guaranteed that the return will be x % a year. The management, risk et al will be all assume by the ‘Don”
Using the investment as seed money initially a beautiful state of the art facility is constructed and takes shape in the community. Picked public officials give their blessing and government fawns over it contribution to health care. Behind the glitter is scum that is beyond belief all cleverly designed to garner public dollars. On the surface the facility is a modern alternative to extended hospital stays and their historical expense.
Hospitals are regularly monitored by government and the medical profession. Deficiencies cannot be covered up and thus a regular compliment of registered nurses, competent doctors cannot be avoided. In addition very expensive medical devices have to be routinely used, maintained, and updated. Concealment is possible, but not for long; however, with government corruption a given a well-connected nursing home Hospice facility or nursing home can indefinitely conceal a multitude of practices. Federal inspections are rare, and State inspections are announced in advance.
Government pays well for health care services and operates on the basis of being content if the paper trail is neat and clean all is well. Thus, examples of care are as follows: Physical therapy consists of removing the parent from his bed and placing him in a wheel chair in the hall. The doctor makes rounds at regular intervals. This consists of slowing his vehicle down to 15 mph as he drives on a road adjacent to the facility. Each service to the greatest extent possible is provided by an outside, but related company. In fact the cartel controls everything and regulates the charges so that the proper paper trail is provided. For its accommodation when elections occur the compliant political figures are remembered by the operators of the nursing home.
The cadre of connected individuals who participate is large and constitute the population of the Elder cleansers and those who aid and abet them. As I pointed out previously there are three types of currency used in the operation: 1) US cash; 2) nursing home (or hospice) beds, and 3) opportunities. The reason for this situation is the cancer needs prospectors to blaze the trail into the growing health care industry, perpetuate the victim base, and to keep the paper trail clean.
As an example. In the Alice Gore situation a 1.5 million dollar treasure trove was brought into the system. The lawyer who recruited the victim had to be compensated, thus, using political clout the lawyer was appointed to the position of guardian ad litem. This accomplished two purposes. 1) it kept the treasure trove under control until it could find its way into the treasury of the “Don” and 2) it provided a means to reward other deserving persons. The avarice of some of the ‘workers’ resulted in prospecting for gold in the teeth of Ms. Gore. Usually the situation is well managed and the victim reaches his/her final reward with Court orders approving every miscreant act including the accountings that disclose the theft of assets.
Just as the Enron miscreants did not go public with their participations the Elder Cleansers are quiet. However, if you examine the individual cases the participants are not hard to pull out of crowd. In the Sykes case the Judge’s evidence deposition suggests she is culpable. The failure of the two guardian ad litem to disclose the massive increase in the pecuniary status of the plenary guardian suggests culpability. Mr. Jerome Larkin’s strong actions in aiding and abetting the elder cleansing suggests his involvement. The list goes on! How deep does this cancer go will be ascertained only when an Honest complete and comprehensive investigation is completed. Yes, some of what appears to be criminal might just be incompetence – I certainly hope it is, but when it swims like a duck, has feathers like a duck etc. it is rare that it will turn out to be a horse. [One of the guardian ad litem is reported to have nursing home investments in a nursing home that Mary was temporarily placed]
The one sure fact is that what appears to be happening in these elder cleansing situations is that the miscreants are creating an 21 st century holocaust and augmenting the health care costs so as to prevent any goal of health care for all being accomplished. Of course their co-conspirators (such as the Attorney Registration and Distortion Commission) are assaulting the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the Taliban assaults on the core values of America.
Ken Ditkowsky
http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com/

Dear Readers.

Just to let you know, I save and ponder and put on my wall many of the letters I get from the states attorneys, the ARDC and JIB who dismiss valid complaints of troubles and issues in the Cook County Court system out of hand.  As if you can smack and squish an annoying bug and it will go away.

So today, I was looking at Mr. Zimmerman’s letter.  Mr. Zimmerman is “special counsel” to the ARDC to make sure they are not corrupt.  Hmm.

I have before this posted his letter.

But today I was thinking, as he denies that Ms. Opryszek did not change the transcript of a certain Ms. Justine, tho she blogs and swears up and down she was lied to and then her transcript changed, WHERE IS THE AUDIO?

And in my trial, myself and Alyece Russell heard certain statements made by Judge Stuart that did not show up in the transcript, so WHERE IS THE AUDIO TO THAT?

You, dear readers, are taxpayers and citizens of a free and democratic society. These attorneys and judges take an oath to swear to uphold the Illinois and US Constitutions. Their duties in this regard to the public is one of a fiduciary standard, or the highest level of care and disclosure.

Where then is Atty. Zimmerman on all of this, and why didn’t he conduct the investigation that these circumstances demand?

All good questions.

JoAnne

From: JoAnne M Denison <jdenison@surfree.com>
Sent: Jul 11, 2014 7:29 PM
To: Atty Tom Zimmerman special counsel to SCOI <tom@attorneyzim.com>, Atty Ken Ditkowsky <ken@ditkowskylawoffice.com>, Bev Cooper Probate Sharks <bev.cooperscorner@yahoo.com>, Lucius Verenus Probate Sharks <verenusl@gmail.com>, “Justine McGinty (from Hunter Thinks.com” <j.mcginty93@ymail.com>, Atty Hunter ARDC complaint <hunter@hunterthinks.com>
Subject: Follow up Questions regarding transcript changes at the ARDC

From: Bev Cooper
Sent: Jul 11, 2014 7:33 AM
To: “JoAnne@justice4every1.com” , “verenusl@gmail.com”
Subject: Mr. Lanre Amu, Attorney

From: kenneth ditkowsky
Sent: Jul 10, 2014 2:33 PM
To: “J. Ditkowsky” , Nasga Us , Tim NASGA , Probate Sharks , “JoAnne M. Denison” , Harry Heckert , Deborah Ditkowsky , “Dr. Ditkowsky PHD” , Ben & Madi Ditkowsky , BILL DITKOWSKY , Naomi Chambers
Subject: The court house

The World we do not see

When the Daley Center f/k/a the Civic Center was being build many of us watched the progress of the rusty old structure that was being built adjacent to the County Building. We wondered if the pile of beams going up with a great deal of noise and dust would stand the test of time, and speculated that considering the political corruption maybe ****.
On a hot Thursday in a Court room at the County Building in 1968 we were not speculating as to the noise of the girders and the riveters. We had an injunction law suit to adjudicate and as one of the lawyers I was called to the courtroom to present my client’s case. The courtroom was square in shape with the high ceiling, and at the North end there was an elevated desk that housed an elderly and dignified man wearing a robe. His name was John Lupe and he was a Circuit Court judge.
Adjacent on each side of the desk were two large tables and a bunch of chairs that had wheels attached to their bottoms. The balance of the room was occupied by uncomfortable wood benches. At each corner of the room was a very large noisy fan, turned full on so that it could make as much noise as possible and move air around the room.
A clerk called the assembly to order, and the Judge (the old man at the desk) invited each of the attorneys to remove his jacket. I started to strip, but noticed my opponent kept his jacket and tie in their proper place. With a groan I said something that I was certain neither the judge or my opponent could hear.
We then approached the bench, and the first witness was placed in the box. The court reporter sat as close to him as she dared as she had the job to provide an accurate transcript. The witness was questioned and he ran through his direct examination as if he expected someone to hear the words he was saying. I was certain that the Judge heard nothing and intended to rely upon the transcript to find out what if anything was taking place in his courtroom. However, I and my opponent huddled close to the witness to garner each pearl of wisdom he uttered.
For an hour the direct examination dragged on, with me complaining after every third question that the witness did not talk loud enough. The court reporter echoed my complaint and the proceedings droned on. Finally my opponent, Lester Foreman lost patience and screamed at his client: “SPEAK UP DAMN IT!” Judge Lupe smiled as I handed Lester a book and told him slam it down on a hard surface that might get the attention of the witness. When Lester cupped his hand over his ear indicating that he had no hear me, I laughed and took out a book a whacked it against the desk.
At the very instant, the entire structure being erected across the street collapsed with a loud noise! For a second there was dead silence and then the air filled with sirens, shouts and general bedlam! We all rushed to window and noted that where there had been four stories of metal pilings stacked together there was flat earth. Judge Lupe, looked at Foreman and myself and said, Ditkowsky I wish you would be a little less dramatic with trying to get the attention of the witness; however, my clerk will call you to inform you of our next meeting.
Today, that structure is the Daley Center and it houses the Circuit Court of Cook County. It is a movie star. The car crash scenes in the movie “Blues Brothers” immortalized the building forever as well as its cousin the Thompson Center. The only surprise is the fact that the building has not rusted away or fallen down of its accord. We thought for a while it was self destructing when windows kept falling out, but that problem has been solved and today it stands tall as a monument to *****.
There were no bricks used in building this structure and its walls are all glass. I guess they did not use bricks and mortar as the architects were aware of the proposed usage and the individuals who would earn their daily bread therein.
Ken Ditkowsky
http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com/

Dear Readers;

Tonight a probate victim wrote me about how she will be on a major radio station this weekend and talking about Daley center corruption and how the ARDC covers up and whitewashes corruption–a situation of grave concern in Illinois.

I told her she has my complete support and undivided attention.

But I wonder how many other attorneys and court room victims will call or write me so that we can instill truth, justice and integrity into Washington and Dearborn Avenues?

Let me know if any of you are interested and I will be glad to get you the call in number and information.

It is important that we speak out where we see a lack of justice and truth in our courtrooms.

Please contact me if interested. Bev Cooper is always looking for court room victims and lawyers to come on her show and speak the truth, talk about the need for justice at Washinton, Dearborn and Randolph in Chicago.

JoAnne

This is in response to someone writing our group to do grant writing for us so we can expand:

Dear Mr. X.

glad to have you aboard.

From very limited inquiry, the first step in grant writing is to define exactly what the organization is going to do.

After we know what we are about, application has to be made to an entity that might be interested in funding such an endeavor.

so far from my observation post we have talked in very general terms, talked about grant applications and have been very vague as to whom we are making application.

My conception of the entity Justice for All is as follows:

1) it would be a clearing house for the victims of elder cleansing and their families – i.e. it would provide referrals for the needed services and alert law enforcement to serious violations of the law so that they could conduct honest intelligent complete and comprehensive investigations of the miscreants. The entity would also weed out the people whose complaints had little merit.
2) it would maintain a staff of social workers, attorneys and support staff dedicated to the sole purpose of providing legal aid to the aforesaid victims and support in the effort to address the serious civil rights violations of law promulgated by the guardianship abuse, avarice of political and judicial officials, and other causes.
3) it would provide court watchers who would appear at court hearings and report abuses.
4) it would assist law enforcement in all relevant manners.

I do not have a clue who would fund such a venture. As a charity or foundation serious safeguards would have to be installed so that a miscreant group could not take over the venture and use it to an adverse advantage. The object here is to make it inconvenient for the Court, its appointees, law enforcement, et al to not do the job that the State pays them to do. The object is to force strict compliance with the State statutes that apply to guardianship and prevent the probate court from being a cash cow for every scavenger attorney around.

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

All great ideas if someone knows of a foundation or grant provider for this venture, please contact me.

JoAnne

http://www.corpcounsel-digital.com/corpcounsel/sample/?pg=16#pg16

According to this article, entitled “sour homecomig”, Mr. Givens, a former general counsel and chief of staff Edwin Givens for SC State University apparently was engage in a phone conversation where other school officials discussed the details of some matter pertaining to taking bribes from other companies for homecoming 2011 activies.

While Mr. Givens did not take any money, and was not part of the bribes, he was nonetheless part of a phone conversation or conversations where bribes were discussed and planned, he did not report the felonious activities, and when the players were indicted for their bribing activities, the feds decided that not reporting these felonious activities was a crime in and of itself.

Givens received only $500, which he donated to a charity.  His excuse (which did not serve him much at all), he didn’t take a dime of a bribe for his own personal accounts.

In all, it is reported that 8 employees were fired over taking bribes, and it seems many were at a high level (general counsel, an university board chairman, and other university leaders). It is said that not only did Mr. Given fail to report these authorities, but he took steps to cover them up (i.e., he denied the activities).

Ken and I have heard of a ratness of felonious activities in probate. We report to the authorities, with numerous communications to the FBI, states attorneys, the ARDC, JIB, you name it, and we find 18 USC sec. 4 all over the place.

And all Mr. Givens had to do to avoid all of this is, once he got off the phone, all he had to do is send one simple email to “askdoj@doj.gov” and enlighten them as to the contents of the phone call.  Yep, one two or three sentence email could have saved his butt, his career and his sanity.

The article admits that use of “misprison of felony” is rare, and where many states had state laws, they repealed them, but 18 USC sec 4 is very much alive and now some fed prosecutors are actively using this law to combat corruption.

The only activity cited in this article was one phone call Mr. Givens was party to. Many attorneys in probate have been a party to conversations relating strings of felonies committed against the disableds and their families and also worked to cover up the crimes. The ARDC and JIB were often informed, and they have not publicly affirmed they report to the FBI– and I doubt that the DOJ will excuse any of those attorneys on the basis they received nothing personally of value either.

I looked up “misprison of felony” on Fastcase and found 12 instances of misprison of felony being mention in connection with it’s use or convictions.

I don’t think that 12 times in the Fed. App. database is rare enough to make those that fit the crime right here, right now in Illinois to feel very safe.

However, Ken and my continued emails, faxes and letters to askdoj will serve us well when it becomes acknowledged that crimes have occurred, that many knew and only Ken and I reported.

While Misprison of Felony might be rare today to mention, perhaps with the public’s disgust for rampant corruption, a spate of complaints using this federal law may soon be in order.

JoAnne

From: kenneth ditkowsky
Sent: Jul 4, 2014 12:20 PM
To: “JoAnne M. Denison” , Nancy Vallone , Probate Sharks , Nasga Us , Harry Heckert , Tim NASGA , Eric Holder , Matt Senator Kirk , “J. Ditkowsky” , Janet Phelan , GLORIA Jean SYKES , Chicago Tribune , SUNTIMES , Illinois ARDC , “Y. ACLU” , Ginny Johnson , Lawrence Hyman , Scott Evans , Kathie Bakken , FBI- , Diane Nash , Bev Cooper , Cook Sheriff , Martha Jantho , “Mr. Lanre Amu — Honest Atty Unfairly Persecuted By ARDC” , “illinoislawyernow@isba.org” , Fox2newsdesk , Chicagotonight , Martin Kozak , Truthbetoldradio , Edward Carter
Subject: Re: Inside Look: Center for Civil and Human Rights

The Civil Rights movement brought America into the 21st Century and drove the racists underground. The racists still exist – just take a look at the Illinois attorney registration and distortion commission’s prosecution of Attorney Amu. I do not know how the Supreme Court of Illinois could have read the documents in that abortive proceeding with a straight face. Bull Connors much has been the chairman of the hearing panel and the son of Adolph Hitler the chairman of the review commission. The 2nd oldest profession was not covered with glory by Mr. larkin’s cronies!

As this racist exercise was conducted in broad daylight I wonder if the Center for Civil and Human rights (and the American Civil Liberties Union) take their mandate seriously. In a State in which a score of Judges have been removed from the bench for corruption how can an attorney lose his license for exercising his First Amendment Rights??????

Of course the fact that law enforcement and our political leaders are amazingly silence as hundreds of senior citizens are being guardianized for the pecuniary benefit of some of the more nefarious members of our society and this effort is aided and abetted with State funds our political elite (and judicial officials) are making mockery of the Bill of Rights! Where is the Center for Civil and Human Rights? Where is the Aclu? Where is the justice Department? Where is law enforcement? Where is the legal profession?

They are all marching to celebrate July 4th as our liberties are marching to the tune of jack boots and the cries of the elderly and disabled for their personal human and civil rights. The hypocrisy is madding! How does a person (and I use the word advisedly) such as Jerome Larkin = who ignores the cries for help from the families of the elderly and disabled – look in the mirror much less march under the stars and stripes. How does Senator Durbin have the temerity to take about ‘freedom’ when he was asked to help in the fight against elder cleansings and all he would do was to send us a copy of a speech he gave no social security. How *****.

America has always stood up and been counted when human rights were violated – today, lip service is all we are getting. Maybe on this birthday of America we can return to basic values and physically stand up against the miscreants who would deprive us of our liberty and human rights. What good is social security if it goes to benefit an illegal guardian and not me?????
Ken Ditkowsky
http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com/

Where to go to complaint when Cook County officials are doing X but the law is Y:

https://apps.cookcountyil.gov/oiig/index.php

My complaint, filed today:

I have gone to the Sheriff’s department now on several occasions and asked to have an attorney ID made.  I am an Illinois attorney in “good standing.”    They told me I am on “a list” and will not give me an ID.  I have asked when I can get one.  They said they do not know.  I asked the reason why I cannot get an attorney ID, they said they do not know.
They claim that photo ID’s are completely discretionary and they do not have to give me one simply if I am on “a list”.
I have not been involved in any incidents at the Daley center, nor I am the subject of any incident report.
What I have done is repeatedly reminded deputies that court room observers can take notes with pen and paper, laptops or whatever they want.  Court room observers also can, now that Illinois v. Clarke has been handed down by the Ill. Supreme Ct, record any proceedings.  The deputies do not like this.  In federal court, anyone is free to take notes as they please, even with laptops and cell phones.  No one is barred from recording.
In light of the fact that I, as an attorney, have been told repeatedly that certain transcripts were not available to be prepared by the Official Recorders Offices, when in fact they were rendered many months later, and certain transcripts have been altered to the favor of certain attorneys, I believe the public has a right 1) to be warned of this and 2) to take notes anyway they please.  further, many people cannot afford the $4 per page charge.
I should not be denied a attorney ID based upon the fact I am outspoken about deputies doing X when the law is in fact Y per the US and Illinois supreme court.
In doing so, I am preventing lawsuits.  In doing so, I am preserving important and fundamental human rights.and should not be tolerated by law abiding citizens who support our Illinois and US constitutions and basic human and civil rights.
If the Cook County government takes an action, it must do so in an uniform, non discriminatory way.
As a woman, I am in a suspect class.  Thank you.

 

I will let everyone know how this turns out, but at least you know now, that if you have a complaint about the deputies not following the law–including note taking, human rights and civil rights, this is the place to complain.  You can also email the cook county state’s attorneys directly.  I did that for the Sykes case and at first they said, “go ahead and email us, we’re interested,” and then they said, please stop, we don’t do that, you should contact the Cook County state’s attorney directly.  I did that and after awhile they said stop, you have to contact the Cook County office of inspector general.

And that’s what they do.  They point fingers at one another, and refuse to act.

Tom Zimmerman, is supposed to be special counsel to SCOI for the purposes of investigating miscreant behavior at the ARDC–witness tampering (Gloria Sykes) and spoliation of evidence (changing of transcripts–Judge Stuart testimony).  So I emailed him, I also emailed him the following about serious lack of compliance to existing well founded laws:

We must never forget Alice Gore, Rose Drabik, Lydia Tyler, NB, Carol Wyman–all passed over, and were either murdered or there was  attempted murder and all under Illinois “guardianships”.  Alice Gore’s 29 gold teeth were pulled  in an Illinois nursing home when she was age 99.  Gloria, a younger daughter was handcuffed and threatened with the euthanization of her pets on the 18th floor if she did not detail her accounts for probate attorneys fees, the GAL’s said the money was to “care for Mary”, but it is not.  90%+ of that estate will go for attorneys fees, some $350k.  JT was falsely accused of stealing by a GAL so she would fork over $20k to the estate which went for attorneys fees to avoid disparagement of her good name.  Bob Schwartz had $200k in imaginary promissory notes that estate is trying to collect–which will all go, (you guessed it) for attorneys fees.  In the Estate of Spera, the GAL grabbed all the joint accounts, locked DS out of all of them–$150k and he was rendered homeless for  6 month. Mother and son want to go home and live together.  That is Illinois law.  But the GAL and probate atty forbid it.  LV has no jurisdiction and her $350k estate went hugely to probate and atty fees.  She was rendered incompetent when she told probate goons to get off her porch, she wanted nothing to do with the OPG or a guardianship because they were all thieves, and she was immediately deemed delusional and schizophrenic.  Papers were served Friday and she was guardianized next Monday, put in a locked down facility, she escaped, couch surfed for 18 months, but that did not stop the probate goons from billing her estate $20k. She called and begged the OPG for money and food and no one would respond or they told her to go live in the designated nursing home where they put her. Mrs. L is still in dire straits, out of her home, massive atty fee billings ($200k in 20 months).  Mrs. P has suffered the same fate.  Now I have  anew case and a new high level of billings, (low level of ethics), Mr. F with an amazing $2.2 million in probate crony fees in 2 years.
All Illinois probate system.  Most from the 18th floor of the Daley center.
These people have NOT seen justice.  No one, not Jenner and Block, not Winston and Strawn, Jones Day,  no major with money and power, no major attorneys with money and power have come to my blog (despite 55k views) and said “how can I help?”
I am one woman.  I cannot clean up this mess alone. Ken is the only one helping me but he is suspended for 4 years. It will take a team of attorneys working 18 hrs per day to clean up this mess of injustice propagated on the elderly and disabled. Who does these things?
Where are the big “pro bono” law firms with money and power to help me out?
Are they afraid of Jerome Larkin and the ARDC too?  I am not.  What will be, will be and I will always stand to the challenge, no matter what.

 

Never Again

On December 7, 1941 a foreign power attacked America. Americans awoke on that Sunday morning frightened and confused. How could this happen? Two large oceans separated us from them and we were the good guys! Our ancestors rushed to defend the motherland and by the hundreds of thousands gave up their lives and went to War. No family was exempt, and everyone’s life was disrupted.

In the years that followed we have grown fat and lax. Foreign wars are video games in which people who were do not know are victimized. Here in America are leaders are chosen not for their intelligence, competency, or even ability – most are picked by us because they look and/or sound good on the boob tube. It is more important to most of us that our leaders wear well fitted suits and have deep voices than established records of accomplishment. Thus, we face a situation in which two governors of the State of Illinois were in jail at the same time, dozens of our elected officials have legal trouble, and we have zero confidence in our Courts. So serious is our plight that an elderly widow is seized, removed from her home and separated from her liberty, her property, and her life. The Courts refuse to intervene, except to protect the miscreants and law enforcement appears to be engaged in the game of ‘too little, too late.’

Yes, I am once again referring to the Mary Sykes case. Unfortunately, Mary Sykes is not alone, but every day we learn of more and more examples of elder cleansing culminating with the death of the victim. The Alice Gore case is a prime example, wherein the bold clout heavy miscreants demonstrated avarice so obscene that they even salvaged the gold filings in the victims teeth.

I’ve forwarded to the Attorney General of the United States dozens of letters from ordinary citizens who have family members being subjected to this assault on the core values of America. So far the score is good guys zero, elder abuses infinity! Indeed, the ‘motherland’ has opted to side with the elder abusers and I and every other lawyer complaining has been or is slated for discipline.

On July 4, 2014 take stock of our America. In my view we still have the best product and a Nation of laws, but, we have been invaded by a cancer that threatens to destroy us. Yes, some of the infection comes labelled as being part of the current political parties and some of the political elite; but, too much of the problem is our willingness to be fat and lax. One symptom is demonstrated by my e-mail. I could organize a group of like minded persons and take some positive action – we could gather on LaSalle Street armed with a rail and tar; however, we are cowed by authority and thus the miscreants are safe.

My grandfather who immigrated to the United States at the age of 9, who made his mark homesteading in North Dakota, running cattle in Texas, etc was faced with a very angry and very large individual who objected to the antics of my grandfather’s Jewish grandson. Mr. ***** made no apology for his National Socialist leanings – in fact he expressed them quite eloquently Grandfather stood standing on his toes five feet five inches tall. When threatened by the hulking Nazi, the diminutive Texan used his fists and piece by piece reduced the Nazi to a respectable size. Neighbors poured out of their homes to watch the resolution of the dispute. Some of the Sauganash residents demonstrated how Americans react to bullys. Mr. Kueen, who had been an Arizona Ranger as a youth, strapped on his six gun, rushed from his home (across the street) and barked demands for the miscreant Nazi to cease and desist.
The direct action resolved the problem. The Nazi had no trouble selling his house (there was a housing shortage) and was gone by the next week-end.

Today we cannot settle disputes with fists. The confidence in the Courts is at low level, and confidence in the Executive Branch of government is in negative figures. Thus, what can be do? I do not know, but, I do know that we as citizens have to do something. I’ve taken to writing to the Justice Department and public officials, filing a civil rights law suit, demanding from law enforcement an HONEST complete and comprehensive investigation, and being a pain in the area of the human body where the sun does not shine. I’ve sent out a letter every single day and have demanded that the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission stop being a deception commission and do its job.

I do know that this American is not going to be walk voluntarily into a ‘gas chamber,’ a nursing home, or a guardianship. This Jew is not going to walk voluntarily into a gas chamber a nursing home or guardianship. This coolie is not going to walk voluntarily into a gas chamber, a nursing home or guardianship. This peon is not going to walk voluntarily into a gas chamber, a nursing home or guardianship. I have a bucket of tar in my garage! My friend has a large rail! **** All I have asked for from day one is an HONEST intelligent, complete and comprehensive investigation.
Ken Ditkowsky
http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com/

this is from Michael Gearhart.

Apparently they gave him back his Cook County ID, but I do not have mine back. I will ask again on Monday. If you demand that the Cook County Sheriff and the court system do their jobs (ie, support and uphold the US Constitution), they take away your attorney ID.

I personally don’t care. I think they should COME TO ME and award it back. I don’t mind standing in line and talking to the deputies about how I’m an attorney, they took away my ID wrongfully, will not provide me with a reason, and I have done nothing wrong. The deputies are now friendly to me. They know I have scissors for cutting out pictures for evidence, they know I have little $2 Walmart staplers for the paper exhibits we (still, sigh) have to have (federal court it is all on a computer screen).

Next, when they get to court, Judge Aicha MacCarthy tells me she is afraid of “recording” so I cannot use my computer which has all my questions and case strategy and case info on. No matter, I call on angels. They help me when humans do not do what is right. But still, I argue the ADA because I am older and have arthritis in my hands and it is easier and more efficient to take notes on my laptop. She says, “bring an assistant.” I tell her “I have no assistants”. She says, “too bad for you.”

So I ask you all, and I will report back to her, is there anyone out there willing to volunteer their time to come to court to take short hand for me and type it up in the hall so I can use it when I have to question witnesses. IF so, then I will let her know.

The better question is, why are the circuit court judges so afraid of recording? I see no harm it it. First of all, it is accurate. I have seen and experience many, many, changed transcripts. Do I have to list them all. Nope, that would be typing for a day. Next, my rule is, if you think you will be shamed by saying it, then DON’T SAY IT.

I don’t understand her “fear of recording”. Do you? Is there a psychological category for that like the phobias we well know. And if there is a fear of “being recorded”, isn’t that a subject for therapy and not a subject for the open and democratic courtrooms we were all promised since 6th grade when we had to take our civics test to graduate grammar school? Maybe my problem was I got 100% on mine. Silly me. And I swear I didn’t even study for it. I thought everyone knew these rights were inimical to every human being on the planet.

Today, I met an elderly client. He said he was an union electrician for decades. It was soooo bad in Chicago, he actually sat at lunches in diners with his boss (owner of a major union electric company in Chicago) and Boss would be asked from the city inspectors “Hey, Mr. Boss, my bill (electric, water, gas, mortgage–you name it) is overdue. You gotta pay it.” He would respond, “still waiting on you to approve project X, you got the VIG, move it along.” Business as usu. in Chicago.

I rest my case. The ARDC says that this blog is officially “misconduct”. I say it is First Amendment.

Apparently some 20,000+ attorneys in Chicago do not speak out like myself, Ken Ditkowsky (suspended for 4 years, may as well make it 1000) for ratting on corruption.

How long must it be until we can overcome?

Do we really need this “code of silence” that the ARDC whitewashes?

JoAnne

From Michael Gearhart (my hero)

From: Michael Gerhardt (GGH LAW) [mailto:mgerhardt@gghlaw.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 12:12 PM
To: ‘info@bettergov.org’
Subject: Misuse of Cook County Employees by judges

Please stick with the logic to see the waste of County dollars.

I have been part of a very active group looking for judicial accountability. Part of our complaints have been that court-watchers were abused (threats of jail if taking notes, confiscation of notes, removal from courtroom for taking notes, etc.) by judges and courtroom personnel. This was recently resolved by the Chicago Tribune. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-cook-county-judge-notes-edit-0609-20140609,0,4718153.story. Chief Judge Tim Evans was forced to put in place a policy allowing people to take notes in court (A public proceeding, involving public employees, conducting public business, in a public place). We have asked for the public to be allowed to electronically record in the courtroom. Despite the recent Illinois Supreme Court ruling striking down the Eavesdropping Statute as unconstitutional in People v. Clark, where litigant recorded the Family Court court proceedings to memorialize it (side note: most complaints regarding judicial corruption come out of Cook and Kane County where recording of court proceedings is not the norm. People v. Clark is Kane County), Chief Judge Evans refuses to reconcile his recent policy banning electronic recording devices with the ruling in People v. Clark.

We have pushed for court reporters if there is going to be no electronic recording. When we do see these Official Court Reporters (Cook County employees), we ask for their contact information so that we may purchase court transcripts in the controversial cases. (Money: We are offering to buy – give money to the County.) We are finding that the judges are telling the court reporters to go “off the record.” (In other words, asking Cook County employees to not do their job. In these courtrooms, we have noted that these particular judges appear to have the court reporter “off the record” the entire time the court reporter is in the courtroom. (Money: Waste of taxpayer dollars – employees told not to do what they are paid by taxpayer dollars to do). And we have even had a few instances where, although the judge did not ask the court reporter to go “off the record” and the court reporter is still typing, when we attempt to purchase the transcript, we are told that the judge has told the court reporter to remove the record (Money: not only destroy government property, but ensure that government property that someone wants to purchase is destroyed.)

But wait, there is more. In a recent confinement of a very active advocate, the judge ordered the advocate confined for indirect Civil Contempt in the advocate’s personal case. As the procedure, the advocate was detained to the basement of Daley Center. Normally, the detainee would be left there to bond out, or wait until 3:30 PM or later for transport to jail at 26th & California. However, the judge decided that her hatred of the advocate was enough for her to use Cook County assets for her personal vendetta against the advocate (I hate editorializing, but it is a personal vendetta.) The judge called and demanded that “special transport” be arranged to have the advocate removed from Daley Center immediately before the Advocate’s attorney could speak with the advocate and before any bond could be posted. A car and two officers were dispatched from another courthouse to act as “special transport.” (Money: using Cook County assets –two officers and a car – for personal vendetta.) Advocate’s attorney was told that this was normal practice. You will see that this is highly unusual. Advocate was taken to 26th and California. Normal pick-up of prisoners from the courthouses is in the afternoon (more efficient at the end of the day instead of multiple transportation trips and to consolidate trips if picking up from multiple locations). Hence, prisoner “intake” at 26th and California does not open before noon. Advocate arrived at intake at approximately 10:30 AM. Not surprisingly, there was no one present to process the advocate. So the advocate, two officers, and a car (Money: two officers and a car are not at their assigned post and are unavailable for at their assigned post/duties; possibly, other County Assets are being used to cover this (now) unavailability of County resources for their assigned purposes.) have to wait until intake personnel arrive to process the advocate. Advocate was turned over to intake personnel approximately at noon at which time the two officers and car were released to return to their assigned duties. (It appears that intake processing did not even start until around 2:00 PM.) Advocate’s processing was not complete until after 1:00 AM (not a typo) and therefore Advocate’s attorney could speak with advocate when the attorney went to 26th and California.

So we have Cook County taxpayer dollars wasted in multiple ways:

-Court reporters told not to do their job.

-Court transcripts (public records) not available for purchase.

-Court transcripts (public records and County assets) possibly ordered destroyed.

-Car and officers removed from their assigned duties for personal vendetta. (Possible reassignment of County assets to cover for personal vendetta.)

-Car and officer removed from their assigned duty to act as babysitter while waiting for intake was open.

All this taxpayer dollar wasted to avoid a little accountability in the judicial branch.

Mick

Michael D. Gerhardt

Law Offices of

Gerhardt & Haskins LLP

730 West Randolph Street

Chicago, Illinois 60661

312-334-9021

NEW FAX: 312-284-4815

And now, you can look at Michael’s Gearhart’s great activist works at:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6FbJzwtHocwNXEyekFQWENGZHM&usp=sharing

he already has his FOIA requests up there. enjoy.

If “crook county” was recently published as 4th in corruption in the nation, this blog is 1st in activism to stop it all thru peaceful, activist protest.  And if the ARDC wants me to shut up, be a good little wife, barefoot and pregnant, I will not do so, I will PROTEST and be an outspoken ACTIVIST.  Our freedom of speech and open democracy depends upon this.  I might have been pregnant 4 times and breast fed my kids 1 to 2 years, but I WILL NOT SHUT UP AND GO AWAY.  Neither will Ken. We are here and we are eloquent.  Ken’s Writ of Cert to the US Supreme Court is a masterpiece the founding fathers and mothers would be proud of.  What did they die for?  Was it nuthin?  I don’t agree with that.

Dear Readers;

In the ISBA email newsletter today, there was an interesting story on Blago, now put away 5 years in club fed med for allegedly engaging in corruption by exchanging campaign contributions for a senate seat OR suggesting that perhaps he would just nominate himself.

The FBI took a highly strange and rare path to bug Blago at his home and office and monitor his phone calls based upon some pretty weak allegations (I forget what those were) and while the Fed. Ct. Judge who issued the politician bugging permission warrant was reluctant, he did it anyway. (Please vote this guy ready for the NSA rubber stamp court allowing the taking of billions of bits of innocent US citizen emails, texts and even phone conversations–he’s ready for his own rubber stamp.)

Unlike most of the country and the press (who definitely can be wrong from time to time) and public opinion, which is as variable as the Illinois prairie grass in the wind, I was not very certain that trading campaign contribs for votes or seats or whatever was in fact “corruption”, because my hunch was 1) it is done all the time; 2) it likely falls under free speech and the corporations are persons under the First Amendment theory we currently operate on; 3) it is fairly the basis of politics–to gather the most campaign contribs you can while doing as little as possible.

Okay, maybe I’m overly cynical. However, unlike the rest of the country at the time, and in particular Illinois, I did in fact look up the law. I found almost no cases on a politician being convicted of corruption (the “honest services” acts in the US and various states or the Hobbs Act) in terms of support my campaign and I promise to vote the way you want, take action the way you want.

That’s right almost no cases. I did find about 7 at the US court of appeals circuit court level (and I forget the cites), but in EVERY case the court affirmed what I said above: 1) all politicians do it; 2) there is no obligation on the part of a politican to take large campaign contribs and the vote the way you want, disburse state money on the schedule you want, do or not do X, Y or Z. Yep, the federal circuits basically said a politician can lie about all of that — in exhchange for money put in a campaign fund, and if you don’t get the vote you want from him, you’re just screwed.

So the above article points this out at the Dec. 2013 oral argument before the 7th circuit who was very cynical about all of this.

I was too.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/07/will-rod-be-spared-108478.html#.U7VoC7E_v0N

What I don’t understand is that the public was ready to convict, many others were ready to convict, even lawyers, but I could not find anyone interested in looking at the case law.

Many, including myself, have complained bitterly that the 18th floor consistently does X when the law is Y. Is this perhaps endemic in society, and even with lawyers?

JoAnne

Below is the ARDC reply brief.

They start off with the argument they had to make about 1.5 copies of an entire blog, even though many postings aren’t even mine, they violate other’s copyrights (feel free to join in this suit if you posted on my blog and the ARDC infringed your unpublished copyright, it’s not too late), and they refused to carve out what they needed, they refused to put a proper copyright notice on what they took, they admit that my blog is political speech–you name it they refute it with their omniscent grand power and majesty–this time over the Federal District Court.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6FbJzwtHocwZTMtaktLTmFLcW8/edit?usp=sharing

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

Apparently this woman lost her possessions and her finances were mismanaged, the court said she could not sue her Guardian for that, but the court said that she COULD sue the Guardian for abusive treatment encountered at a group home where she was forced to work for no or few wages to stay there.

Ms. Martinez reports that she works long hours researching and writing for probate victims rights and plans on going to Washington with her horror stories to testify before the Senate.  Good for her.

At least it’s some in road into judicial/guardian immunity that most probate courts hold sacrosanct.

JoAnne

Retirement

As you are aware, I was involuntarily retired because I refused to adhere to the Code of Silence arbitrarily imposed by the Illinois Attorney Registration and Deception commission, administered by Jerome Larkin.     This situation left me with no responsibilities, no law business, and a world of time on my hands.    To fill the days I continued my investigation of Mr. Larkin, and the judicial officials he was protecting only to discover that my worst fears were realized.    There really was a War on the Elderly and the Disabled going on and the war culminated by the murder of dozens of senior citizens.

Armed with 18 USCA 4, Article 1 section 4 of the Illinois constitution, and the First Amendment I redoubled my efforts and made certain that every day I sent at least one e-mail to law enforcement complaining of the felonies that were being committed by Judicial officials and protected by Mr. Larkin.    I lobby every day for an HONEST complete and comprehensive investigation of Mr. Larkin and his fellow warriors.    I should be successful as Larkin is the enemy of President Obama and the hope that the President can have a positive and lasting legacy.     With Larkin’s protection the warriors for elder cleansing are perpetuating health care fraud that is so pervasive that it is bankrupting the United States of America.     Most importantly success is assured as my cause is Just.

Being obsessive is not my nature.     Yes, I can be annoying and persistent, but my credo is all work and no play makes Kenny a dull boy.     Thus, my wife and I disappeared from Chicago on a month long vacation.    By car we traveled from Chicago to New Mexico to the far reaches of Idaho and back to Chicago.   Twenty eight days on the road put everything into perspective and most importantly gave me time to relax, enjoy, and get to know my wife.     

Judy is unique.   She is game and ready, willing and able to turn any event into pure pleasure.    How many women in their 70’s would rent mountain bikes and venture onto a bike trail in Idaho?     How many women (of any age) would venture into a jet boat to ride the rapids into HELLS CANYON?

Thus, in Jackson we boarded a rafted for a trip on the headwaters of the Snake River, and in Idaho we boarded a jet boat for a trip up the rapids of the Snake into Hell’s canyon.     The best part of the trip was when we hit a rock!     The most exciting part of the trip was the realization that America is the most beautiful country in the world.     The scenes the unfolded were beyond imagination and depicted magnificence beyond description.     The adventure into perfection started on day one and will go forever.     Americana is being polluted by Jerome, Adam, Peter, Cynthia, Miriam, et. al, but there are so many wonderful and friendly people outside of Cook County, Illinois that except for the nefariousness of the miscreant’s action and the fact that in 1930 – 1941 bad people plunged the world into a War of survival, they would be a ripple in the ocean.

Thus, even when recalling the pure pleasure that I experience in June 2014, I have to once again call on everyone who cares about the elderly and the disabled to demand from the United States of America an HONEST intelligent complete and comprehensive investigation of the cabal of miscreants who are waging a war on the Elderly and disabled.     It would be nice to see Jerome, Adam, Peter, Cynthia, Miriam and their cohorts in orange jumpsuit at Club Fed!      Then maybe Americana can enjoy am honest Court system in which lawyers are free to comply with their oaths and serve their clients on a level playing field.

Ken Ditkowsky

Law Offices of Kenneth Ditkowsky

From Joanne;

I am not as keen as seeing any lawyer or judge in orange jump suits.  What I would like for them to do IS THEIR JOB.  Everyone makes mistakes and everyone gets too deep in things they never intended to do but felt they had no way out.  These people are highly educated and can help the poor, the traveler and those in need.  I would prefer that they go and work for legal clinics, start charities (such as this one) and work for justice, but not for greed and evil any longer.  They should be taking on cases without money or hope as I do in probate.  They should be reuniting loved ones and making sure that elders are not isolated or stuffed into nursing homes they do not desire to go to.

That is my fondest hope for all of these problems and issues in probate and elsewhere.

Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

http://americanactionnews.com/articles/50-va-workers-claim-retaliation-for-whistleblowing

an amazing story of a woman with a heart helping out a sexual abuse victim, and SHE is penalized.

Apparently those in charge have gone to the Jerome Larkin school of staff management.  If someone’s doing good, stop it and punish them.  If someone is following the law, stop them and punish them severely.  And if they let others know, make the penalty outrageous as a warning to other do gooders.

JoAnne

And no less this was in the Chicago Sun Times.

http://politics.suntimes.com/article/chicago/fine-surprise-city-may-owe-millions-refunds/fri-06272014-158pm

I had always wondered all those years of parking tickets, fines, garbage tickets, etc. if any were legal because no prosecutor or atty for the City was present.

When there is no prosecutor for the city, the proceedings easily devolve into kangaroos courts were anything goes and there is no uniformity of decisions.

I am sure many of you have seen that.

I wonder also how many complaints were filed with the ARDC over this that were trashed.  Time for a FOIA?

Joanne

Yes, Mr. Larkin, the US Supreme Court is still recognizing people’s rights under the US Constitution as the law of the land, even if you are not.

I feel sorry for Alice Gore, Carol Wyman, Rose Drabik, Lydia Tyler, Mrs. DB, Ms. LV, Mr. Spera, Mrs. L, Mrs. MP and other Illinoisans who have suffered under your watch and command in the Probate Courts and complaints were filed and routinely dismissed.  GAL’s and probate attys were protected at the expense of these elderly women.

I advise clients who have suffered injustices to write to the ARDC too with their complaints, but don’t expect much, write to the FBI and be specific.

It’s a very sad statement to make.  Let me know when your polices have changed.

And no, your agency does not need more money to simply glance at a complaint, discern the word “probate” and toss the letter in your circular file or get our your rubber stamp of “breach excused”.

And I am not impressed either with your connection to social media articles and the law where the ARDC has taken the position that it must crush and obliviate any honest, ethical attorney dissent and then prosecute honest attorneys with kangaroo proceedings with no due process, quashed defenses and one sided hand picked tribunals acting in historical star chamber procedure.

From: kenneth ditkowsky
Sent: Jun 28, 2014 2:25 PM
To: JoAnne Denison , “illinois.ardc@gmail.com” , Eric Holder , “civilrights.cv@ic.fbi.gov” , “ADA.ComplaintAdmin@usdoj.gov” , “IllinoisLawyerNow@isba.org” , Chicago FBI , NASGA , probate sharks , j ditkowsky , Cook County States Attorney , Chicago Tribune , “truthbetoldradio@gmail.com” , Eric Blair , “tinker.belle2000@yahoo.com” , GLORIA SYKES , scott evans , Kathie Bakken , Ginny Johnson Justice4 Everyone Blog Fan , jim , SUNTIMES , matt senator kirk , “fox2newsdesk@foxtv.com” , “foxnews_7D7B711AF105DCA690AB56169C0FF242@newsletters.foxnews.com”
Subject: Fw: post for the day

http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com/

From: kenneth ditkowsky
Sent: Jun 28, 2014 3:59 PM
To: GLORIA Jean SYKES , JoAnne Denison , “illinois.ardc@gmail.com” , Eric Holder , “civilrights.cv@ic.fbi.gov” , “ADA.ComplaintAdmin@usdoj.gov” , “IllinoisLawyerNow@isba.org” , Chicago FBI , NASGA , LUCIUS VERENUS , Judy Ditkowsky , states attorney , Chicago Tribune , “truthbetoldradio@gmail.com” , Eric Blair , “tinker.belle2000@yahoo.com” , scott evans , “k_bakken@att.net” , Ginny Johnson Justice4 Everyone Blog Fan , jim , steve huntly sun times , matt senator kirk , “fox2newsdesk@foxtv.com” , “foxnews_7D7B711AF105DCA690AB56169C0FF242@newsletters.foxnews.com”
Subject:

http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com/

And I will note for the record that Larkin has NEVER publicly responded to this blog, has never apologized to  A SINGLE VICTIM, and he persecutes me and you both.  He could easily withdraw his case against us.  Kowamoto and Stuart are gone.  Game over.  How does he explain that one?  coincidence?  I think not.  Not even a 5 year old would believe that one.

and we must never forget Alice Gore, Rose Drabik, Lydia Tyler, LB, Carol Wyman–all passed over, and were either murdered or there was  attempted murder and all under Illinois “guardianships“.  Alice Gore’s 29 gold teeth were pulled  in an Illinois nursing home when she was age 99.  Gloria, a younger daughter was handcuffed and threatened with the euthanization of her pets on the 18th floor if she did not detail her accounts for probate attorneys fees, the GAL’s said the money was to “care for Mary”, but it is not.  90%+ of that estate will go for attorneys fees, some $350k.  JT was falsely accused of stealing by a GAL so she would fork over $20k to the estate which went for attorneys fees to avoid disparagement of her good name.  Bob Schwartz had $200k in imaginary promissory notes that estate is trying to collect–which will all go, (you guessed it) for attorneys fees.  In the estate of Spera, the GAL grabbed all the joint accounts, locked DS out of all of them–$150k and he was rendered homeless for  6 month. Mother and son want to go home and live together.  That is Illinois law.  But the GAL and probate atty forbid it.  LV has no jurisdiction and her $350k estate went hugely to probate and atty fees.  She was rendered incompetent when she told probate goons to get off her porch, she wanted nothing to do with the OPG or a guardianship because they were all thieves, and she was immediately deemed delusional and schizophrenic.  Papers were served Friday and she was guardianized next Monday, put in a locked down facility, she escaped, couch surfed for 18 months, but that did not stop the probate goons from billing her estate $20k. She called and begged the OPG for money and food and no one would respond or they told her to go live in the designated nursing home where they put her. Mrs. L is still in dire straits, out of her home, massive atty fee billings ($200k in 20 months).  Mrs. P has suffered the same fate.  Now I have  anew case and a new high level of billings, (low level of ethics), Mr. F with an amazing $2.2 million in probate crony fees in 2 years.
All Illinois probate system.  Most from the 18th floor of the Daley center.
These people have NOT seen justice.  No one, not Jenner and Block, not Winston and Strawn, Jones Day,  no major with money and power, no major attorneys with money and power have come to my blog (despite 55k views) and said “how can I help?”
I am one woman.  I cannot clean up this mess alone. Ken is the only one helping me but he is suspended for 4 years. It will take a team of attorneys working 18 hrs per day to clean up this mess of injustice propagated on the elderly and disabled. Who does these things?
Where are the big “pro bono” law firms with money and power to help me out?
Are they afraid of Jerome Larkin and the ARDC too?  I am not.  What will be, will be and I will always stand to the challenge, no matter what.
PLEASE, if you are an attorney or a law student that can help out or if you know of a law firm with the resources, please beg and plead with them to help me out on these cases.
the justice system of Illinois depends on it.
joanne

At one time, back in 1972, Daniel Ellsburg was deemed by the FBI the country’s “most dangerous man”.

His crime (and he had his kids help him with this), he leaked to national media Pentagon Papers that indicated that 1) the war in Vietnam was a sham; 2) the Pentagon and executive branch was publishing outright lies about the war in order to promote it and lengthen it; and 3) this was done for the benefit of US mega corp war profiteers.

The district court dismissed the suit and the US government’s request for an injunction against publishing the Pentagon Papers, The Court of Appeals reverse and an injunction issued.  The US Supreme Court, in a 9 to 0 decision firmly told the US court system that the First Amendment is alive and kicking, and the lower courts should be ashamed for what they had done to Mr. Ellsburg.

They ended their 4 page main decision congratulating the brave news women and men that published the Pentagon Papers across the nation, even fearing a 10 year federal prison sentence hanging like the sword of Damocles over them.  The Justices commended those news women and men for what they had done–exactly what the founders of our country had envisioned when the First Amendment was enacted.

Mr. Ellsburg is now 83 and is trying to help Mr. Snowden, for about the same stupid issue–publishing old government documents that are nothing but the unvarnished truth that only hides the lies from US mega corp war profiteers and those in conspiracy with them for war fraud on the nation.

In a very short, four page, 9 to 0 opinion the Black/Douglas team reaffirmed the strength of the First Amendment.

First Amendment

Congress shall make no law abriding freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

Next the court starts out with the fact Justice Douglas started the opinion with the statement “the injunction should have been summarily lifted without oral argument when the case was first present and every moment this injunction is effect amounts to a flagrant, indefensible and continuing violation of the First Amendment.”

The New York Times, Washington Post, etc., Should be commended for serving the original and true purpose of the First Amendment.

You might say, well this is a court, so certainly a court can get more discretion in First Amendment matters.  Not so, saith Justice Douglas:

“The government does not even rely on an Act of Congress. Instead, it makes the bold and dangerous farreaching contention that the courts should take it upon themselves to make a law abridging freedom of the press [and speech] in the name of equity or presidential powers or national security.”

A sincere thanks today for all the brave, honest justices on the Supreme Court in 1971 who reaffirmed freedom of the press and freedom of speech.  They make this blog possible, and my defense of all of you court victims out there–NOT the  IARDC who has repeated over and over this blog is like yelling fire in a crowded theater and so it must be crushed as dangerous dissent and inconvenient political speech.

The ARDC has become like the fearful executive and judicial branches in 1971 that feared the public’s knowledge of the truth about the Vietnam war and mega corp war profiteers might expose the rampant corruption in the executive branch, which it did.  For those of you too young or too old (haha) to remember, the US started drafting soldiers in 1965, a major escalation ensued, and by 1968 US involvement in war in Vietnam was at its height.  The publication of the Pentagon Papers and more information after that started to take serious wind out of the sails of the war, and by August 1973, a full scale withdrawal was underway.  But the bombing, the deaths, the crimes against humanity left their toll on the average citizen in that country.

JoAnne

In the June 2014 ISBA journal, there is an entire article on social media, and this article  seems to center on the issue of Facebook containing derogatory and defamatory posts–which 90% of the time seems to revolve around employee/employer disputes.  Interesting.  Illinois is an at will state so I don’t think what you say on Facebook is going to help the average employee that posts something adverse or embarrassing about his or her employer and gets terminated for it.  BUT one narrow caveat is employees who are non exempt (lower level staff), discussing work place conditions, they may be covered under NLRB that allows employees to organize and present grievances to employers.  Again, it’s a narrow, unreliable exception, so I would not rely on it, except if you have already been fired for trying to make things better at work by acknowledging problems, that might make for a good wrongful discharge suit.  Be sure you were an excellent employee prior to the firing tho, because wrongful discharge suits are not guaranteed, either.  Better yet, keep workplace discussions at work and in appropriate formats and try not to be very negative about your employer, its products or services.

Interestingly enough, the article does not mention copyright issues, or that employees can be fired at will anyway.

My copyright Response to Jerome Larkin’s motion to dismiss my Copyright Infringement suit against him may be found here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6FbJzwtHocwOGplTVo4bVcwc2s/edit?usp=sharing for defendant Nextpoint

and here for the ARDC

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6FbJzwtHocwN2d6ZGpXT0FhZlk/edit?usp=sharing

The article itself cautions to 1) send targeted discovery requests requesting information about a specific topic; 2) asking for everything in Facebook is not likely to be well received; 3) the attorney should make sure the posts turned over are relevant.

While the article recommends programs like Snagit and Camtasia, the reality is, you capture a lot and the other side finds out, you WILL be facing a counter claim for copyright infringement and removal to Federal District court.  If Snagit and Camtasia are informed of your super infringing activities and take no action to stop it, they may be contributory infringers as aiders and abetters or vicarious infringers.  Most blogs are not sold or offered for sale, so technically they are unpublished under the US Copyright Act http://www.copyright.gov/title17/ and Fair Use is NOT  a favored defense.  Any honest, competent, copyright attorney will tell you it simply cannot ever be relied upon.  It is best to take the least amount of text or data, generally no more than 3 or 4 short lines.  The upshot is write your own copy. (see, page 278) and make sure that what you take is clearly pertinent, relevant and most of all, MUST be downloaded and preserved.

If you can’t answer that question with a firm “yes”, then forget it.  If you’re mad about a Facebook post, most generally disappear in a few days.

The article also fails to mention if it’s not your stuff, don’t worry.  Under 47 USC 230, if someone else wrote it and you posted it, you should be protected.  If they ask for you to remove it under that statue, do so, following the statue closely.

Another issue not tackled by the article is that is you do engage in Fair Use because you want to use quotes or a short example for your blog article, most authors want acknowledgment.  Many will want a plug to their book or artistic work.  Many will also ask you post a copyright notice “(c) Name of Author, all rights reserved, year of publn. or creation for unpublished works.” and then the notation “used with permission of the author”.  The ARDC hasn’t figured out how to do that.  They should respect other’s copyright right, despite the fact as a government agency, they have none themselves.  You should always ASK to repost or republish from the author.  Many authors on the internet allow for cross posting.  Be sure to follow the free to repost instructions because it could invalidate the permission and subject you to copyright infringement liability.

Once, an attorney for Mr. Eformes wrote me demanding that I take down Ken’s assertions that his client had been indicted.  So, of course I complied.  I deleted what Ken wrote and inserted instead about a half dozen articles from wire services regarding his client’s indictments and litigation over nursing home fraud.  So there is a caveat that if you are trying to cleanse the internet of all your client’s misdeeds, this might in fact backfire.

Several citizens have pointed out to me the Social Media article and that Jerome Larkin’s name appeared on the page, and yet he wants to delete his adverse information from the internet and crush attorney dissent and extreme dissatisfaction over the fact that the law is X and courts are doing Y.  They found his name on that page ironic and asked me to mention it on the blog.

So I was pleased to comply.

Joanne

Dear Readers;

In the wake of highly suspicious deaths which family members swear are murder by aiding and abetting GAL’s, Guardians and others known and approved of by the courts, the ARDC is raising its prices starting next year, courtesy of the Ill. Supreme Court.  Yikes!  more money to white wash, cover up and be embarrassed holding when the feds step in and do their job.

This week recently, I heard another take of a bankrupt guardianship, so what did the GAL do?  He created a false accusation against the Guardian (who, by the way had top secret clearance in the US government), and said she stole money from the estate, forcing her to write a check back into the estate so HE could get paid from a bankrupt estate.

This woman would never even think of stealing, but the false accusation and smear to her name forced her to comply.

It will be reported to the ARDC and I’ll let you know what they do.

Below is from Ken but please voice your opposition to the ARDC raising fees and ask that they be disbanded until the Ill. Sup. Ct. can find a way to set up an independent, competent, honest and ethical agency that WILL conduct thorough, competent and HONEST investigations of these cases.

Our elderly and disableds deserve much better than what is going on now.

take care

joanne

from Jerome Larkin

“The timing and amount of the ARDC’s fee increase request takes into account the economic challenges facing many lawyers,” said ARDC Administrator Jerome Larkin. “Our fee has not been raised in eight years – twice its projected lifespan. The ARDC has acted prudently to extend the life of that fee in response to the Court’s directive for fiscal restraint during the economic downturn.

 

“The amount of the increase for the ARDC is an historic low on a percentage basis. The additional funds will allow the ARDC to continue its educational, remedial, and disciplinary work.”

 

The increased revenue will be used to undertake new and expanded responsibilities in education of the profession, particularly in support of the updated Supreme Court Rules of Professional Conduct that went into effect in 2010; to fund the regulatory and disciplinary authority of out of state attorneys who practice in Illinois under Rule 707; and to upgrade technology in following the Supreme Court’s lead in e-business initiatives.”

 

You will note that nothing is carefully said about the ineffective, ignored and tossed aside “investigations” on these cases.  Nothing is said about sudden resignations of certain Judges.

It is time for honest, integrity and to face what is going on and make the information public.

I will be publishing quotes from one of my favorite cases–U.S. v. Washington Post, a great 1971 case where the US government went after Daniel Elssburg for publishing the Pentagon Papers — documents that were in fact years old–but they revealed “top secret” information the US govt did not want published–that is, that the US military and executive branch constantly lied to the US public about the conditions in Vietnam and false need for a war there, all to the benefit of certain war profiteers.

The same thing BTW, is now going on in Syria, with US war profiteers selling weapons to foreign nations, creating false wars, etc., all to benefit war profiteers–huge US corporations that make expensive weapons.

Now, from Ken Ditkowsky

From: kenneth ditkowsky
Sent: Jun 27, 2014 8:27 PM
To: Eric Holder , “civilrights.cv@ic.fbi.gov” , “ADA.ComplaintAdmin@usdoj.gov” , Tim NASGA , GLORIA SYKES , Chicago FBI , Chicago Tribune , “illinois.ardc@gmail.com” , “IllinoisLawyerNow@isba.org” , Jo Anne M Denison , NASGA , Diane Nash , probate sharks , Harry Heckert , Naomi Chambers , matt senator kirk , j ditkowsky , Cook County States Attorney , “clcain@cbs.com” , SUNTIMES , “fox2newsdesk@foxtv.com” , “foxnews_7D7B711AF105DCA690AB56169C0FF242@newsletters.foxnews.com”
Subject: Fw: Hospice Series

The participation of the Courts, judicial officials, Mr. Jerome Larkin of the Illinois Attorney Registration and Deception Commission et. al, in aiding an abetting this scandal and homicide factory is deplorable and clearly part and parcel of a the fostering of felonies.   Pursuant to 18 USCA 4 I have forwarded the article to law enforcement.   

Over the past four years I have sent hundreds of e-mails to law enforcement and others in an attempt to promulgate an honest, intelligent, complete and comprehensive investigation of this war on the elderly and the disabled.   The net effect is that in a effort to silence me and others. Mr. Jerome Larkin has obtained the suspension of my law license [to be hung as a despicable trophy in a case filled with the skeletons of innocent attys falsely accused and prosecuted without due process, or any sense of justice] .   Attorneys who have aided my efforts to obtain JUSTICE for the elderly have been similarly assaulted by Larkin.

While I cannot understand how attorneys employed by the State of Illinois would not know the basic credo of America and the Bill of Rights I cannot understand how the Administrator of the IARDC would not know when the lives of the elderly are being artificially shortened and he is aiding and abetting in this criminal act and felony *****.   Obviously, Larkin and his cronies are aware and are intentionally acting pursuant to the criminal enterprise – why else would they be so much in opposition to an Honest intelligent complete and comprehensive investigation.

It is apparent that Mr. Holder has started an investigation and indictments have been reported.   Is it not time for the facade to end, and Mr. Larkin and those who have aided and abetted him in the coverup surrender to Justice, confess their participation and aid in ending this terrible scenario.   Larkin can show that he is repentant by, in addition to confessing his role to dismissing the absolutely ultra vires and absurd prosecution of Ms. Denison, but prosecuting all the serious cases of elder abuse, financial exploitation and murder his staff routinely dismisses as “proper probate procedure”–despite the fact that no seniors should be harmed, suffer lack of jurisdiction, due process or murder, under his watch and command without a serious investigation and interference by the ardc.   larkin is surely aware of the recent SCOTUS decisions and 47 USCA 230.   His facade has been exposed!    It is time for larkin to cease and desist in dragging the legal profession into a scum and mud cesspool.   It is time for Greylord Jr to end!

The Obama ADministration has an incentive to intervene and end the war on the elderly and disabled – the signature legacy of President Obama is Obama Care (Affordable Care Act).   With the fraud in the health care industry estimated at 70% no health care program can be successful.   The simple act of enforcing the laws that are already on the books and prosecution of the criminals will reduce the fraud substantially.  Yes a few members of the political elite might acquire orange jumpsuits, but, a few more senior citizens will receive the health care that they are entitled to and have a right to obtain.   Yes, Mr. ***** (nursing home operators/hospice care providers) might have a few less dollars and might be inhibited in their political contributions –  BUT – WE LIVE ARE AMERICANS, AND WE WANT OUR DEMOCRACY!

Ken Ditkowsky

http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com/

First of all, Ken has been selected by the Supreme Court Press in Boston Massachuttes for “Writ of the Month”.

You can see their blog (with some very interesting cases) here on

http://www.supremecourtpress.com/featured_petitions.html

one case I enjoyed reading was where a person was engaging in passive resistance during arrest and the officer repeatedly punched him and kicked him until he died while the officer shouted at him “spit it out” (refering to a bag of drugs.

I think it’s a clear first amendment violation and the officer needs anger management,because he was clearly out of control with rage but please don’t keep your thoughts and feelings to yourself, post them here.  The 5th circuit said because the suspect was resisting arrest, the death was excusable.  Well, maybe in the THEIR minds, but I think that officer’s got a whole lot of bad karma to make up.  The law of the universe and Mother Nature, well, we know that she’s a b*****.

And now for Mr. Amu’s wonderful interview with Bev Cooper on Cooper’s corner, see below.

This video will air in 250,000+ households on the north shore.  You go Bev!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTPSZNh4wj4&feature=youtu.be