The attached is one of the most interesting transcripts I have seen in a long time and it is so because you can see how Judge Stuart is basically side stepping all the major issues in the case.  She goes to great lengths and tremendous twisting of the facts, so get prepared:

First, the link to the transcript:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6FbJzwtHocwOGlTS3p2azY0UFU

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6FbJzwtHocwOGlTS3p2azY0UFU

(if link breaks)

1.  With respect to the Soldini notices, Judge Stuart says that it is her understanding that Judge Connors looked at the issue at the time of appointment of CT and decided she had jurisdiction, and that is why she would not review it on 7/8/11.  Very interesting.  Except the law is, you can bring up jurisdiction at any time and if it’s notice type subject matter jurisdiction, the case MUST be dismissed.  The court is supposed to look at subject matter jurisdiction at any time because it’s sooo important.  It’s due process.  Sodini.  So that means the judge is side stepping the following 1) an admission by Harvey Waller that he never served the 14 day notices; 2) that there was no time between the care plan hearing by Gloria on Nov 22, 2009 and the Hearing to appoint Carolyn on Dec 7, 2012 which would have been inadequate time to prepare the 14 day notices–it was not until 11/22 that the hearing date on the Petition to Appoint was set for Dec 7th (look at the docket, dofus); 3) protestations and affidavits by the 2 sisters they never received 14 day notices; and 3) from time to time the GAL’s will state that the appointment of a Guardian was not by hearing, but by agreement between the parties. (Waffle no. 1)  In this transcript Farenga says Mary was supposed to be in court on Dec 7, but she was not there. (Waffle No. 2)  She then waffles on Mary’s need for an atty (p. 23).  (Waffle no. 3) Pretty amazing.

2.  For some reason the court is ignoring the fact that during a partition or when the motion is made, a party can defeat the partition by showing an accounting to the court that the other owner is not entitled to any proceeds owing from the transaction.  In this case, the court said they would just split everything 50/50.  Gloria protested that she paid an $18,000 down payment, so she is entitled to that back.  Then there was argument over whether the $165,000 was just on Gloria’s half, or if it was also on Mary’s half, until someone noted that Mary also signed the mortgage note.  Gloria protested that she always paid the mortgage (so one would assume she would get the credit on this), but the court said it would not matter, the mortgage would run against both halves and did not mention any accounting or credit for what Gloria paid, including but not limited to:  mortgage, taxes, insurance, repairs, etc. over the years of ownership.  Gloria should get credit, but the court didn’t think this was the law. (My question is, who convinced the court of this law).

3.  Next, the Court goes into lengthy detail as to why a 2-1401 motion to set aside a judgment did not have to be filed.  The court said it was only attacking an apportionment agreement, which is only a private agreement between two parties and it has nothing to do with a judgement or order of another court.  Gloria responded that the Agreement was part of the Order dismissing the case and it was reviewed by the chancery court, that Mary was represented by her own counsel at the time, but it didn’t seem to matter to the judge.  she seems to treat the apportionment agreement as a private agreement not heard by the chancery court, nor entered as part of a court order.  The GAL’s and PS seem to have convinced her of this. (new stack of waffles, please–that what happens when the judge goes to law school by letting attys into the private area reserved for judges and discussing cases with the attys there.  Duh)

4)  Finally, Adam Stern starts to complaint about being contacted by the Naperville police dept (p62) and that the sergeant says he was inundated with 513 emails regarding Mary’s condition and he wants Gloria and “her followers” to be admonished to stop this. He says he investigated several months ago and found nothing wrong with Mary or her living conditions.   Now see what the court says.  The court does not know who caused all those emails. but Gloria needs to think about this because it will turn into a Chicken Little situation.

BUT not to beat poor little Chicken Little to death,on the very SAME page we have CF going on and on about “a decline” in Mary’s condition and next page'”in the forseeable future” there may be a need for “more skilled care than they can provide..money is an issue.  Money is needed to care for Mary.” Another stack of waffles.  If all Mary needs is custodial care, then relatives are expected to pay for her care or suck up and do it themselves and Medicare won’t.  The GAL’s and the court know this.  BUT, if her needs are serious and cannot be done by family, then Medicare will pay.  Medicare does not require Mary to divest herself of a survivorship interest in a family owned home–only the GAL’s and CT want this.  I know this.  Most attys dealing with the elderly know this.  The probate court knows this fer sure.  Nursing homes are dangerous places no elder should ever have to go to–unless there is no family to care for her.  Now steps in Gloria, she did it for years and she actually promised her mom she would keep her at home until she passed over.

I’m going to say this again, in case LB or the GAL’s don’t get it.  Gloria cared for her mother for years.  Gloria paid the bills.  Gloria kept things going.  Mary was in EXCELLENT health.  She walked every day, she took care of her dog Hannah (okay she did spoil her by giving her inappropriate treats such as chocolate, but hey, I do that too and most vets now say “spoiled pets welcome”).  She was still in the garden club and even doing gardening.  She swept the street.  She visited with the nice firemen at the fire dept. next door, she went to the bank couple times per week  (which is when she became enraged that Carolyn removed $4,000 from Mary’s account without her permission and so Mary went downtown to get a protective order against CT, instead what happened is Carolyn got appointed guardian and the rest is history.

Another amazing transcript of Gloria being ignored, mistreated and spent off in Probate court.

On July 11, 2011 the GAL’s complained about Gloria’s postings on the regular guardianship blogs–NAGSA, Probate Sharks, etc…… Little did they know what lay around the corner.

First they got the nagging doubts of lay persons.  Now they have some real sharks to deal with.  Lawyers that write blogs, read transcripts and the most heinous issue of all–WE ASK THE QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ASKED.

The court was wrong.  We should ALL BE CALLING FOR AN INVESTIGATION of this Probate Case and why is the court saying “don’t do wellness checks” when in fact it is stated in the court’s own transcripts that Mary is in decline.  She never declined at the home managed by Gloria.  She at gourmet vegan and Gloria always did prompt doctor’s care.

Keep on emailing.  Keep on helping Gloria.  Sign the petitions that are posted above, write your senators and representatives and tell them NO MORE denying our elderly their due process rights.

Gloria has the Power of Attorney for Health Care of her mother.  Not CT, so why did the court ignore this.

The court is wrong.  The US Constitution and the Illinois Constitution guarantees each and ever one of us the rights to free speech and to cry out when an elderly person is being abused and manipulated  to her detriment.

Don’t be cowed by this transcript.  It’s not right and it should not have ever happened.

JoAnne

PS–Gloria, with all this waffling by the GAL’s, I think your best bet is to bring some maple syrup to court and just set it out every time they start to knit together their stories for the nth time.  Uuugh.
PPS–When they lie, don’t shout out “he’s a liar”, just bring a rug–you know, maybe even one of those doll house rugs.  You can get one at Gigis dolls and Sherris Teddy bears.  Use a stack of post its, write down each lie, and stack them up on the little rug.  When the miscreants start lying, don’t interrupt, just ask when it’s your turn and go thru those little post its on the rug, one by one.

I’m sure the GAL’s are reading this, so when you come in with your little rug and pull out the post its, I bet they never tell the judge you have to bring a rug to hold all their little (and not so little) lies, well, because they lie like a R U G.

PPPS–not to beat the making of waffles to death (pun intended), but from this transcript, it is clear the judge is talking to the miscreant attys in the hallway, Scott and Gloria always see them coming from behind the judge’s private areas, and it is clear that the court is being spoonfed BS law by atty miscreants rather than having to actually read cases and make decisions based upon briefing schedules.  The law with respect to partitions should have been briefed.  The court was often confused by the facts.  The court should have set a briefing schedule on 1) the partition; 2) the accounting on the brown house; 3) subject matter jurisdiction, as brought up by Gloria, etc.

This was not done.  And when formal briefs are not required, justice suffers.

first, the links:

Dear Readers;

As you may be aware, a number of videos of Mary G Sykes that I put up on youtube showing her to be a thinking, competent person with clear and appropriate intentions (she wants both daughters to share in her estate, she wants both daughters to share in taking care of her, she wants to go home and live at home until she passes, etc.)–most were flagged and removed from youtube.com.

what?  g-rated videos taken down?  Impossible, you might say.

But here we have it, a 90 year old speaking her mind, and those must be removed?  Why? Who benefits from this?  Evil and greedy GAL’s that want to churn the bill and make money while Mary G has no rights and no due process?  An evil and greedy daughter CT who had her mom sign documents at an atty in 2005 and refused to give her mother copies of those documents and her assets were allegedly placed in a trust in a trust document that is clearly void abinition under the Statute of Uses?

Interesting.

So go ahead and look at the videos and when it is clear they get red flagged and taken down because they show competency post Dec 8, 2009 finding of incompetency, let me know.

There are many, many august persons who do not want these videos to be kept on youtube.

UPDATE on videos.  Last night I got a plug-in to scam the videos and they are now all up at the vimeo link.  To do this, you just need to get a free “video downloader” plug in added to your Firefox.

take care

joanne

the link:     https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6FbJzwtHocwZFRoMGlMbjVjODg

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6FbJzwtHocwZFRoMGlMbjVjODg

Dear Readers;

First of all, I have to apologize for having been off line for a few days.  As many of you know, I had a $350 Acer computer for years.  Because I work on a ton of cases that do a lot of good, but there is not much income from them (ahem, case in point for this blog), I decided to opt for a cheapie laptop last time around to see how that would stack up against my typical $2,000 Dell business laptops I got tired of paying for.  Well, the Acer did great.  It beat the Dells for reliability and repairs hands down. But last Friday it hit a glitch and would no longer charge the battery so I took it into Microcenter for repairs.  I had purchased a 2 year extended warranty, one year mfgr, then another two years of Microcenter warranty.  Imagine my surprised when Julia told me the good news, that the mother board was burned up and they could not replace it so would I accept a $450 gift card.  Hell YES.    Within an hour I was down at Microcenter oogling laptops with that gift card and settled on a near-ultrabook–a Toshiba Portege, i5, 700 Gb hard drive, CD/DVD drive 5400 rpms at a 14″ screen and 3 lbs, it’s laptop heaven for me!

Of course I got the warranty right away.  So long live Microcenter and thank goodness for my  computer angels.  Just to let you know, they pushed to scam my old hard drive–which did not crash–for $150.  I told the guy “nope, my kid will do that for me.”  He replied, “are you sure he’s qualified.”  I answered, “Well, he’s been building computers and repairing cell phones since about age 10, Microsoft certified since age 12, and running my network since age 14, and now he’s a math and computer science major at SIU, so yeah, I think this is QED for him.”

Now the dirty little secret of what the guy was saying is that all I needed was a housing for my 2.5″ laptop hard drive and those housings have USB cables that plug and play on any laptop, so in this case I did 95% of the data copying myself.  For some reason, microsoft puts everything in directories 10 deep, and I hate that, but I copied that, as well as where I put my data which is just in c:\data.  How easy is that?  So save yer $150 if your motherboard crashes and just scam your data yourself with a $8 housing (okay I opted for the fancy metal one–but the plastic ones at $5 look flimsy to me).  I put the whole thing together at the microcenter check out with .99 cent screwdriver set.

Okay, back to law.  I hope you all learned how to save $125 to $150 when you motherboard fails.  For a hard drive failure, be sure to image-backup!

I have a few good posts for the next few days so read on.

When I have nothing better to do with my meager bucks I get out of going to work or working for 10+ hours per day, I order some of Gloria’s transcripts, because well, she’s pretty much a hoot in court and stands up to the GAL’s and their beastly “witnesses”.

The transcript link I posted above is the most recent and best one.  In this one, not only does Gloria continue to make her case that the [legal fora] proceedings are nothing but a sham, but she gets the [entity] to go on and on about how the [legal fora] can go back in time as it desires (oh, puleeze, beam me up Scotty), and get some quack-corrupt [entity] (hmmm, why does the name [entity] come to mind?) to say that he knows 4 years ago that Mary Sykes was incompetent to make or understand or even dictate her desires to sign off on the apportionment agreement. (If he knows that then why isn’t he beating out some real psychic pros like Sylvia Browne, James Van Praagh, John Edmonds, etc.)

But the best part of this transcript is you can see how the court justifies this clearly inane conclusion.

And there’s the little matter of 2-1401 that says judgments must be attacked in 2 years.  The court clearly does not believe that the “apportionment agreement” is a judgment or court order.  This court thinks it was a private agreement made between two parties and was never court reviewed or court approved.  This court further believes that Probate is the only full faith and credit courtroom that has ever existed or will ever existed.  Thank goodness there are only sovereigns sitting in those courtrooms running their own little fiefdoms.

Does this clearly speak to the out of control meglomania of [legal fora]–that it answers to no other court or jurisdiction besides whatever pops into its own little head–like a low flying airplane?

Read the transcript and judge for yourself.  This one will also go on my “crazy transcript” page.  I’m actually thinking of holding a contest for the craziest of all theSykes  transcripts. Clearly the one where the court sanctions KD for $5,000 and is overturned has to be number one or near the top.

Just let me know

JoAnne

www.ditkowskylawoffice.com

And I would add a request to the ARDC that they investigate the numerous trips to the emergency room during December 2009 to spring 2010 where Mary lost weight and other unknown reasons.

The ARDC should also issue a subpoena to Carolyn and Fred Toerpe asking for a copy of one statement from any bank account they have held since July of 2009, and one check from any account they held in their names, or for their daughter Kristen or Carolyn’s mother Mary, and then the ARDC should ask for statement records at each of those banks beginning in July of 2009–this means they go directly to each bank rather than look for doctored statements from these two miscreants.  At that point I bet they disappear rather than turn over any records.  They will leave Mary behind, penniless and do a quick sale on the home.  Then Gloria will get her mom back.

Good point Ken, I will fax these requests to Ms. Black and let her know if she loses it, it is also posted at http://www.marygsykes.com so she has no excuse.

JoAnne

Dear Readers;

This post started out as an amendment to the prior one today, but ooooh, reading that file and seeing how awful it was towards Gloria, got me going……….and you don’t want to get me going.

Even scarier are emails from the GAL’s in the Probate file that Gloria sent to the court where GAL Adam Stern incredulously write Gloria and tells her that her home (the Brown home) is a drain on her mother’s estate and so is the white one (Mary G’s home she lived in since the 1950’s) and must be sold.  He then accuses her of being bipolar, mentally ill, etc.–an Illinois licensed attorney admits to that–without cause or justification in the record.  There is no such diagnosis in the record.  I will readily admit Gloria’s eccentric, but then, arent’ we all in some way or another?  And she doesn’t go around suing people and interfering with other people’s families to churn fees–like certain other GAL’s we know, now does she?

Who appointed this guy Goddess that he can interlope in this family and sell both houses so he and CF can get fees, transfer Mary G to Carolyn’s home so Carolyn can sell the homes and put the money in a trust Carolyn benefits from, when prior to this Gloria took care of her mother and the mortgages on both homes?  Maybe AS and CF don’t like the way Gloria spends her money, maybe they don’t like the way Gloria wants to keep her mom at home until Mom dies and pay on two mortgages, but frankly, it’s none of their fudge making business. (See emails in 2-15-11 Probate file (No. 2), p. 10 where AS tells Gloria what to do and where to go.  The guy is clearly an out of control meglomaniac–and he puts it in writing)*  AS tells Gloria that both homes must be sold because “they’re a drain on the estate” while at the same time there are videos on the internet showing Mary is clear thinking and wants to live in her home until she passes and have Gloria  care for her and her daughters are to split everything on her death. (See Vimeo links on home page).

Again, between Jan of 2009, Mary passed her written driver’s license test, her eyes and ears were examined, she knew how to take directions and look in the eye test.  She passes a test many teens can’t pass today.  Then she walks to her bank several times per week, discovers that the plenary guardian took out $4,000 without authorization, goes to a lawyer, gets a Protective Order Petition going–talk to the paralegals there, writes her own checks, walks to and from her favorite doctor, Dr. Patel, 4 blocks away when she wants, visits the Fire House next door and everyone knows and loves her there.

Aren’t CF and AS embarrassed by all this?  Aren’t the judges reading this blog and aren’t they embarrassed by all this?  Now over a year of Probate Court file pleadings have been published on a blog on the internet.  That’s embarrassing to anyone with half a brain.

I already have 16 court transcripts and they are scary too.  Railroaded into a Guardianship, not permitted to speak in court, isolated in a remote suburb she doesn’t want to live in.  Who is in control of this?  We live in an area with a State Constitution and a US Constitution granting every citizen due process, rights to appear in court, the right to independent counsel, etc.

I will publish and fax the 16 transcripts to Lea Black tomorrow at the ARDC.

She needs all the facts.  These are very, very scary facts.

JoAnne Denison

*PS–note while I called AS an “out of control” maniac, this is a blog.  It’s purpose is to primarily entertain.  I do NOT do this in my pleadings or communications to and from my clients.  Turns out Neil Steinberg is an atty and he is pretty inflammatory in his columns, but this is entertainment and nothing more.  AS is free to respond by posting a comment and calling me a %^&*( and I will reply and thank him).  Because some %^&*( **clearly has to kick him in the butt for what he’s doing to Gloria, Mary and this family. Disgusting.

www.ditkowskylawoffice.com

Dear Readers:

While we have not to date published an entire blog article regarding Atty Deborah Jo Soehlig, today is her day.  I would excuse her if she were just a young associate that is easily deceived and blinded by partners with decades more experience in twisting and manipulating facts, but according to the ARDC, she has been around since 1987.

1987 and she still does not do her own investigation of the facts?  That is indeed a very, very dangerous situation.

Well, Ms. Soehlig, I hope today is your day.  To read this blog.  To understand that what you are doing at your firm is NOT worth it.  Gloria and her mom lived together for 10 years and Gloria took admirable care of her.  Then Mary G was ripped from her home and family and neighbors she knew since the 1950’s and has been isolated in Naperville.  Go look at the videos, please sign the Petitions to get her home.  Look at the FACTS.  They are selling the homes only for greed.   The Soldini notices ARE jurisdictional.  You are now wound up in a proceeding without standing or authority.  It is clearly ultra vires  in nature and their liability becomes yours.

Your job is only a paycheck.  When you elevate your soul, the rewards are much, much greater in life.

I hope you can find your spine and read the blog, the entire Probate file and do your own investigation.  Then quit.  Walk out and go on your own.  Apologize to Gloria and the court and set the record straight.  I have been on my own now for years and years, but I need not be involved in greed and corruption and creating unjustified pain and sorrow for others.

If you can do this, I promise to help you.  It has NOT been easy for me, helping others often without pay or promise of pay or anything on the horizon.  But I have done it and I am still doing it.

Sincerely

JoAnne Denison

Now, for Gloria’s Complaint:

From the Desk of Gloria Jean Sykes

TO:  The ARDC Illinois

RE: Attorney Deborah Jo Soehlig of Fischel & Kahn

To Whom It May Concern,

Yesterday, February 17, 2012, attorney Deborah Jo Soehlig stood before a federal bankruptcy judge, (Pamela Hollis) and LIED.  This is not the first time she (and her colleague of Fischel & Kahn–Peter Schmeidel) misrepresented the facts to a FEDERAL JUDGE, or even a STATE JUDGE, but this time she did it with vindictive retaliation in order to further ‘bully’ me and dispossess me from not only my property “Homestead”, but also all property of my bankruptcy estate and procure a favorable ruling in order for her to have a huge financial gain.  It is a matter of fact that:

(1)  Deborah Soehlig will NOT get paid one penny for her unethical and lawlessness services provided to her client Carolyn Toerpe, the Plenary Guardian, unless she successfully does me great harm (renders me penniless and homeless in order to silence me);
(2)  Deborah Soehlig is giving Carolyn Toerpe legal advice on how to financially exploit, willfully deprive, and otherwise, perpetrate egregious and deadly elder abuses against my mother, Mary G. Sykes,
(3) Deborah Soehlig knows she is before a Federal Judge without standing: that she or her client, are not “creditors” and she is wilfully interfering and abusing me in a proceeding that she does not belong involved in;
(4) Deborah Soehlig knows or should know the law(s) and the Bankruptcy Codes and the Rules of procedure, but still, she pretended that she had me served notice regarding her Motion to Adopt she (allegedly) filed with the U. S. District Court in re the Estate of Gloria Jean Sykes, when in fact I was never properly served and the Affiant lied;
and,
(5) Deborah Soehlig knows or should know that her client is a ‘fraud’ and that there is but a “Naked Trust” or the trust property was improperly claimed in the Mary G. Sykes Trust rendering it thereby invalid, and that her client has no right to possession of the property at 6014 N. Avondale (“Subject Property” or “Homestead”) in whole or in part: that said, Deborah Soehlig knows or should know that the illegal and wrongful eviction perpetrated against me dictated that I be dispossessed of the second floor only and that her client LIED to the Deputy Sheriff, creating false statements against me, in order to have me forcibly removed from the entire Subject Property against my will or consent.  Deborah Jo Soehlig knows or should know that the Sheriff placed their purportedly legal sticker of dispossession on the second floor but that her client changed the locks on the first floor in order to dispossess me of the entire premises–an action which was false and unwarranted under the allegedly proper court order the Sheriff had attained color of authority thereunder.

Attorney, Deborah Jo. Soehlig, not unlike her ethically challenged colleague attorney Peter Schmiedel, have violated the same codes of ethics and professionalism and so the ARDC only need to refer to my numerous prior complaints against attorney Peter Schmiedel to pursue their investigation.  Deborah Jo Soehlig knowingly has committed serious torts and criminal acts no less than that amounting to acts of civil terrorism against both my mother and I for her own greed and financial gain, and she told me yesterday that she will “dictate when or if I get my personal property, my tools of the trade and intellectual property,  and or any of my confidential legal documents– including evidence much needed to prevail in the Federal Cases”, back into my possession. She LIED to the federal judge yesterday when she knows that the Order of October 25, 2012 is being appealed and that the court lacked jurisdiction to address that order — and yet, Attorney Deborah Jo Soehlig created the false and improper illusion that I was a “dangerous” person and her client was “in need of protection” and therefore a security company was hired to protect Carolyn Toerpe and Toerpe’s property at the Subject Property.  Deborah Soehlig knows that none of the property currently housed at 6014 N. Avondale belongs to her client, or has ever in fact belonged to her client.

I have submitted numerous claims and requested protection under the ARDC’s Client Protection Program and I have been repeatedly denied. The loss of the properties of my estate, the egregious lies  narrated by attorney(s) such as Deborah Jo Soehlig have caused me (1) loss of money and property as a result of the intentional dishonest statement by attorney Deborah Jo Soehlig;
(2) that Deborah Jo Soehlig has wrongfully misappropriated or converted, is using, and withholding my money and my property;
(3) that these loses occurred while Deborah Jo Soehlig was acting as Carolyn Toerpe’s lawyer and in a fiduciary capacity related to the practice of law (attorney for the alleged Plenary Guardian of the Estate of Mary G. Sykes);
(4) that because of the huge losses of property, income, et. al, due to Attorney Deborah Jo Soehlig’s deliberate fraud on the court which she perpetrated in several court proceedings, she must be investigated and disbarred, or at least suspended;
(5) that I have made reasonable efforts to pursue civil remedies and as late as yesterday, in motioning the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for a Rule to Show Cause based upon numerous misrepresentations, half truths and even outright lies, attorney Deborah Jo Soehlig, after court in the hall when I once again attempted to “work things out” and “set up a cooperative time to procure my properties while we work out the adversary proceedings– the Appeal, the ADA claim and the section 2-1401 that her client will be served today or tomorrow by the DuPage County Sheriff’s office–she has REFUSED TO OFFER ANY ASSISTANCE OR REASONABLE COOPERATION WITH THE INTENT TO BULLY ME, TO CAUSE ME MUCH PAIN AND SUFFERING in an attempt to silence me!

My losses have been massive since Attorney Deborah Jo Soehlig first became involved in these court proceedings relating to the Estate of Mary G. Sykes and these losses are due in full to her negligence, her lack of reasonable investigation into the facts and affidavits previously placed on file with the ARDC and posted on this blog,  and her gross malpractice (rather than intentional dishonesty).
Some of those losses (financial and emotional), occurred because she and her client is not in fact an ‘creditor’ of my Estate in Bankruptcy.  Rather, because she is falsely parading around in the Bankruptcy court as such, my claim is for lost profits, consequential damages, and costs to recover my personal, professional, and legal litigation properties. (Deborah Jo Soehlig has and continues to obstruct justice and she further instructs and advises her client on how to obstruct justice as well, inter alia).

To ignore the egregious and wrongful conduct of Deborah Jo Soehlig, who has LIED on motions filed, verbally LIED to state and federal court judges (the transcripts of proceedings where she has appeared are replete with such lies) and yesterday, she lied again to Judge Hollis in order to influence a Judge and discredit me for her own financial gain.  Attorney Deborah Jo Soehlig’s motivation is simple: greed and money!  She made an agreement with her client Carolyn Toerpe that the only way she will get paid is if she does me great harm, renders me penniless and homeless, and in doing so, illegally sells my mother’s home (and forces the sale of my home — “No, hell no I won’t let her do that and neither should the ARDC”), for her own personal financial gain.

You can easily check on all of these facts.  Deborah Jo Soehlig cannot prove or show that she has been paid for her services over the past two years she’s represented Carolyn Toerpe.  Her and her firm are waiting to sell the Subject Property and my home as well (“my Homestead”) by forcing a partition proceeding when she knew or should have known that I paid for the home in full, paid the mortgage and I was the only individual residing on the premise and that this arrangement was well known by reputable (that is, most all) of my family members–not those who stand to financially gain by the sale of my Homestead.

The financial exploitation, the willful deprecation of both my mother and myself is so blatant, that even a challenged child can see the FACTS that Attorney Deborah Jo Soehlig is using her position and office as an attorney, and using the courts in order to not only churn assets of our estates, but also to set a course that will ultimately ‘murder’ my mother. And inasmuch as Deborah Jo Soehlig threatened my life and livelihood yesterday outside the Courtroom of Judge Hollis in a direct pursuit of  what attorney Peter Schmiedel wrote in an email to my one time attorney Joel Brodsky, that the law firm of Fischel and Kahn will do whatever they must to render me penniless and homeless for their own benefit (to get paid).

The legal profession depends upon the public’s trust.  It’s been over two (2) years since I first filed a complaint against attorney Peter Schmiedel who appeared for the first time as Toerpe’s client on February 10, 2010 and I reported to the Probate Court that he was going to sell my mother’s home and my home too for his own financial advantage and gain.  Because the ARDC has failed to act, failed to investigate, et al, Peter Schmiedel and Deborah Jo Soehlig’s wrongful acts amounting to little more than civil terrorism, I am now homeless and penniless and without any of my personal and professional property as well as my intellectual properties needed to generate an income, and of course all my legal documents.  That said, attorney Deborah Jo Soehlig, if not stopped, she will assuredly not only instruct her client Carolyn Toerpe not just on how to murder Mary G. Sykes, but also on how to murder me as well.  You at the ARDC continue to laugh, continue to charge innocents like Kenneth Ditkowsky or JoAnne Denison, and while ignoring the obvious, you are empowering criminals wearing legal suits and carrying legal briefcases and pleadings to do great harm to the exact people and general public that you, as a oversight agency, were lawfully appointed by the State of Illinois to protect.

I am extremely fearful for my life. I fear for my mother’s life.  Meanwhile, Attorney Deborah Jo Soehlig continues to LIE to Illinois Judges in order to obtain rulings that will fill, or which may be currently filling her pockets with the hard earned money of good American citizens who have repeatedly  reached out to the ARDC pleading for basic legal protection afforded to all.

I, and I’m certain other innocents, live in fear for their lives every day because of attorneys like Deborah Jo Soehlig.

FYI I have not received any confirmation that the ARDC is dong any investigation on attorney Peter Schmiedel after so many complaints were filed against him, that it appears that this is a John Wayne Gacy situation, that the ARDC will do nothing until many die — and then, it will be simply too late.

The last words Deborah Jo Soehlig said to me yesterday as I ‘begged’ to arrange for a cooperative time for me to get my properties from the Subject Property, are “You can’t dictate to me.  We will dictate when, how, and if at all you get your property back.” She then turned on her heels and with her buddy, attorney Peter Schmiedel, simply walked away from me.  Other attorneys heard this and a couple walked up to me in shock!  Hitler is still alive and well…. is the ARDC going to allow Deborah Jo Soehlig to walk me (and my mother) into the Showers, too?

Right now, we’re both living in this Concentration Camp stage of hell on earth, and we can see not too far afield the Shower buildings which is assuredly the next step in this grisly process perpetrated with the assistance of the Schmeilig team.

Gloria Jean Sykes
Bon Ami Productions, Inc.
773.910-3310(cell)
773.631-9262 (fax and office line)

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Gloria needs visitation.  While she has a court order for visitation, she has been stymied by the [local police dept where Mary is located] because while she shows up at the door with her court order, Carolyn says that she has a different court order, but does not produce it?

What sort of a police department is that which depends upon heresay?

I have not heard of that.  If Carolyn has a different court order she should produce it at the door.

Jive walks, court orders talk.

Another burning question in this case is the curious conduct of Mr. Lippman, a senior attorney and volunteer at Chicago Volunteer Legal Services (CVLS).

Now no one wants to say anything bad about an attorney that regularly volunteers for the poor, and in this case the poor and elderly, but Mr. Lippman’s behaviour became quite curious in the course of the proceedings involving the guardianship of Mary G. Sykes. And to be fair, no one really knows why all of this happened but it all appears to be a severe violation of Mary G’s rights in this matter. And other than the fact Mr. Lippman did not show up in court–after being provided with a subpoena, the fault really lies with the court and not Mr. Lippman.

Sometime before that hearing date of December 7th, in fact many months before, Gloria took her mother to CVLS and asked for an attorney to help her fill out a Power of Attorney for Health Care and for Property. As with any good attorney, when a family member brings in an elderly senior, he wanted to talk with Mary G alone, determine that she was not under any undue duress or influence, and that she basically understood what the documents she was about to sign were there for. So he talked with Gloria for a short while, and then he privately discussed everything with Mary G and sent her happily on her way with the two required Illinois statutory forms, one for Property and One for health care. Mary filled them out with the assistance of another independent family member, and they were notarized by an independent party. The notary was available to testify in court, but the court did not want to hear that testimony, that the notary watched Mary G sign as indicated and there was no evidence of undue influence or duress. (Actually a notary only testifies that she knows the person signing the document was in fact the person before her–notaries do not ensure any other matters such as undue influence or even sound mind and memory, unless that is specifically stated so in the notary clause.)

But during the court hearing to appoint a guardianship, the court ignored all of these important facts, and even the most important document–the Power of Attorney and Health Care granted to Gloria which was the most recent and it should have been enforced UNLESS it was conclusively shown that Mary G was incompetent at the time of the signing–which would have been nearly impossible in a normal court because Mary G wrote specific wishes all over the document in her own handwriting!

The GAL’s said Mary was just parroting instructions, which was absolutely ridiculous because the words and phrases were complex and the handwriting was excellent. Was the court merely following the theory that a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters typing a thousand years could write an award winning short story? Was that the reasoning for this.

The court SHOULD have required Mr. Lippman to testify and enforced the Subpoena that Gloria filed, the court SHOULD have listened to the testimony of the notary. And the court clearly should have questioned Mary about who she wanted to have her Power of Attorney and if she could identify her handwriting on the document.

Instead, the court railroaded Gloria and appointed Carolyn–a person who was the subject of a Protective Order where Mary G alleged Carolyn was wrongfully removing assets from her accounts!

Mary G deserved her own private attorney and not the GAL’s who were ignoring her requests and her instructions.

She wanted to stay in her own home and have Gloria continue to care for her.

Those should have been the only goals of the Court and of the GAL’s.

Now it gets very, very strange. Of course the court would want to see those documents. Perhaps the court wanted to talk with Mr. Lippman, JD, to determine that he followed proper and customary procedures (this would NOT require Mary G to divulge her attorney client privilege. Mr. Lippman would only discuss the procedure and NOT the substance of the conversations.

Instead, at the last minute, Mr. Lippman said he would not attend and that the director of CVLS told him not to unless there was a court order in place–ridiculous. Mr. Lippman has a duty–even as an ordinary citizen–to attend a court hearing out of a civil duty. In Illinois attorneys have the right to obtain a subpoena where ever there is due cause that the testimony may be helpful to the court or to their client. Mr. Lippman and CVLS ignored all of that!

Further, the hearing on December 7, 2010 when Carolyn was appointed was only to be on Gloria’s care plan. Instead, the court railroaded Gloria and appointed Carolyn, even tho the matter should have been set for another day because there was no notice to anyone.

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Although this is obvious, no person in this blog has been accused of any wrongdoing, crime or even arrested unless stated otherwise from a website reporting actual arrests and convictions. We are stating our opinions and we have the right to do this. Only the particular author is responsible for his or her content. (So don’t blame me if you dislike some posts from someone else).  This site is newsworthy because it is picked up automatically by many other blogs and is therefore protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution and the Illinois State Constitution and violations will be taken seriously with charges under the Illinois Citizens Participation Act.  We ARE participating in government here–we are lawyers trying to make a difference to make things better for grandma and grandpa.  We don’t care how much money you’re making–directly or indirectly from Probate or a nursing home or home health care wired-in business.  Do yourself a favor and get a different job, it’s not worth it.

On the eve of the Christmas Season, I would like to ask one main question.
l.) Why should any child or close relative be limited or barred from visiting with his/her sibling/parent etc?  Or stated in a more specific manner – what possible rationalization exist for anyone to prevent Mary Sykes’ siblings (age 80 plus) and younger daughter (almost 60) from visiting with 92 + year old Mary Sykes on an unfettered basis? As noted in the Sykes  case the effort put forth by the plenary guardian and the two guardian ad litem to isolate Mary Sykes from her family, friends, young daughter, and siblings is humongous. Hundreds of hours have been spent in preventing the younger daughter and younger sister from having contact with Mary Sykes! Hundreds of hours have been expended by Guardian ad litem Stern in an effort to prevent Mary Sykes from having legal representation!
The obscenity that the marshalled facts detailing the plenary guardian’s and the guardian’s ad litem actions in the Mary Sykes case presents is strong evidence of how far we as a society have progressed in our efforts to re live the National Socialist agenda. Just like the ‘brown shirts’ of the 30’s we are pious in our verbage, but, the Paterno Syndrome is alive and well! The ‘do not ask, do not tell mentality’ has led law enforcement and government to forget their function in society, i.e. serve and protect. It is easy to goose step along in benign neglect! However, the fact remains that what is happening is wrong and no matter what member of political elite might find herself/himself in the ‘dock’ should not be a consideration.
Mary Sykes is not protected by isolation, financial exploitation and elder abuse. She (Mary Sykes) is not protected by a society that can turn its back on her and allow a guardian who was named by Mary in an Petition for an order of Protection to be deprived of the love or her siblings and her younger daughter! Some activities are inherently wrong! They remain wrong even when approved by authority and/or the Courts. This isolation of Mary Sykes from her younger daughter and her siblings is inherently wrong. How does the Illinois State Police and the Naperville Police attorn to this situation. The National Socialists rounded up allegedly undesirable people in the 30’s, bundled them into rail cars and deprived them of oxygen and the world watched! As indicated by the number of guardianship abuse cases that have come forward we have temporarily substituted the allegedly disabled for the “undesirables” or Jews, blacks, disabled persons, homosexuals and Russians!
The very same ‘lame excuses’ and rationalizations presented with authority are now used to perpetuate the elder abuse (isolation) and financial exploitation and the lack of action on the part of authority. The Paterno syndrome is just as alive in Chicago, Illinois, Colorado, Indiana etc as it is at Penn State. Heavy clout obviates any meaningful investigation, prosecution, protection, or government function. Form is superior to substance and we hear:
1) a guardian ad litem tells the Court that Mary Sykes does not want legal representation – even though she has in her own hand written a plea for legal representation.  Even though other family members have been passed notes by her and she has appealed to them to get an attorney and go home.  How do the GAL’s and the court respond?  To not bring up the subject because it will upset Mary G!  Mary G knows her mind and she wants it to be respected.  The Probate Code allows for the disabled person to make such decisions.
2) a lawyer telling a court that the isolation of Mary in a day care facility replete with sensory deprivation is ‘progress” (we know better – since when does a lawyers words substitute for common sense and reason?)  Why is Mary being placed in senior day care, when Gloria can keep her at home and care for her?
3) police department response minimizing approximately 1/2 dozen emergency room trips by Mary and the December 2010 incident in which we was reported to have lost 10% of her body weight, and was neglected by the plenary guardian. (this is exactly what happened in the Paterno case – and exactly what the Tea Party, the Occupy group, and the majority of Americans are crying about, We are tired by same old excuses and blame game! – Coach Paterno did exactly what he was required to do, and Law enforcement minimized the serious child molestation. Indeed, had Paterno done more nothing more would have happened. Indeed, nothing more would have happened and did not happen because Coach Paterno was an icon and if an honest and full investigation had occurred the heads of many of the clout heavy would have been on the chopping block. Thus, Paterno is the victim that the media is felling sorry for! Hell with the victims!)
4) the failure of government to insist that the plenary guardian inventory the contents of a safety deposit box (and a mattress containing money). (The GALs, law enforcement and the Court that is supposed to supervise the disabled person’s estate watched extensive remodeling go one a the plenary guardians’ home while her husband was unemployed and the US was in a serious recession )
Once again – how does our society rationalize it attornment to the isolation of Mary Sykes (92) from her daughter and siblings! (80 +) The ‘box cars are on the track!’ You will not need your luggage – *****
Ken Ditkowsky
http://www.ditkowskylawoffice.com

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Although this is obvious, no person in this blog has been accused of any wrongdoing, crime or even arrested unless stated otherwise from a website reporting actual arrests and convictions. We are stating our opinions and we have the right to do this. Only the particular author is responsible for his or her content. (So don’t blame me if you dislike some posts from someone else).  This site is newsworthy because it is picked up automatically by many other blogs and is therefore protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution and the Illinois State Constitution and violations will be taken seriously with charges under the Illinois Citizens Participation Act.  We ARE participating in government here–we are lawyers trying to make a difference to make things better for grandma and grandpa.  We don’t care how much money you’re making–directly or indirectly from Probate or a nursing home or home health care wired-in business.  Do yourself a favor and get a different job, it’s not worth it.

1.   A COMPLETE AND UNBIASED PHYSICIAN AND MENTAL EXAMINATION OF MARY SYKES TO BE CONDUCTED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CENTER FOR ADVANCED MEDICINE OR NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.      This examination must be conducted by real doctors, not doctors who are willing to sign certificates of incompetency without examining the patent – the record in this case reveals such a physician.   It also reveals that the plenary guardian signed one of the certificates representing that she was a PhD.   She is not!

2. A COMPLETE INQUIRY AS TO THE PETITION THAT WAS FILED BY MARY SYKES WITH THE AID OF COURT PERSONNEL SEEKING AN ORDER OF PROTECTION.   It is amazing that this serious proceeding was totally ignored by the Circuit Court of Cook County and the two guardian ad litem who were assigned to this case.   Incidentally why are there two guardian ad litem and what is their role – except to prevent Mary from having legal representation?

3.  A COMPLETE INQUIRY AS TO THE ESTATE PLANNING DOCUMENTS THAT WERE PROMULGATED THAT ESSENTIALLY DISINHERITED MARY’S YOUNGER DAUGHTER.   This should have been a red flag for the guardian ad litem.    Since the plenary guardian was the named abuser in Mary’s petition for a protective order this situation should have been investigated.    Demands for the notes on such inquiry by the GALs have resulted in nothing being produced.

4.  A COMPLETE INQUIRY INTO ALL FACTS SURROUNDING THE APPOINTMENT OF A PLENARY GUARDIAN FOR MARY SYKES    THIS SHOULD BE COMPREHENSIVE AND SHOULD FOCUS UPON SUCH ISSUES AS WHY THE SODINI NOTICES WERE NOT HAD, THE AUGUST 31 2009 TRANSCRIPT, THE APPOINTMENT OF TWO GUARDIAN AD LITEM, THE DISQUALIFICATION OF JOANNE DENISON, THE ATTORNEY EXCLAMATION OF BEING RAILROADED, THE ACTIONS OF THE GAL IN PREVENTING MARY FROM HAVING LEGAL COUNSEL.  The Sodini case makes these notices jurisdictional.    Will there by a “cover up” of the admitted failure to serve the Sodini notices?     If there is , what is law enforcement going to do about it.

5.  A COMPLETE INQUIRY INTO THE REMOVAL OF MARY’S ASSETS FROM HER HOME AND FROM HER SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX – INCLUDING THE UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE ASSETS IN THE INVENTORY.    This is the heart of the criminal conduct and the unifying thread of this case and the other guardianship abuse cases.    This thread also extends to the nursing home financial exploitation cases.   Millions in tax revenue is lost by not requiring the guardians to report the ‘loot’ received as ordinary income.

6.  ALL FACTORS INVOLVED IN THE ISOLATION OF MARY SYKES FROM NOT ONLY HER YOUNGER DAUGHTER BUT HER SIBLINGS, FRIENDS, AND ACTIVITIES.   There is no justifiable reason why Mary’s 80/90 year old friends and relatives cannot freely and in an unfettered manner visit with her and communicate with her.    It is important that law enforcement ascertain the motivation for the GALs acting in a concerted manner to perpetuate the isolation.     Indeed, the demonization of Gloria Sykes by Adam Stern and Cynthia Faranga (GALs) is not only unjustified but evidence of gross impropriety.     Ms. Sykes is a published author and journalist.

7.  other and different aspects of the financial exploitation and elder abuse.

I suggest that everyone call/fax/email the court investigators (there are the federal ones or  the FBI in the Dirksen building, 219 S. Dearborn Ave, and the are also state investigators in the Thompson center.  You can also try to visit them with your petitions.  Gloria, can you get their phone/fax/email and we can post that tomorrow?  Everyone needs to email them with how Gloria lovingly cared for her mother for 10+ years while Carolyn idly stood by.  Also, if you have information on assets, that would be great and can substantiate Gloria’s claims of gold coinage and cash in the mattress and what people inherited in the family and then died, that would be great.  And finally, if you can substantiate how Mary has pled repeatedly to get an attorney and go home, that is very helpful too.

Legal Disclaimer–
Although this is obvious, no person in this blog has been accused of any wrongdoing, crime or even arrested unless stated otherwise from a website reporting actual arrests and convictions. We are stating our opinions and we have the right to do this. Only the particular author is responsible for his or her content. (So don’t blame me if you dislike some posts from someone else).  This site is newsworthy because it is picked up automatically by many other blogs and is therefore protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution and the Illinois State Constitution and violations will be taken seriously with charges under the Illinois Citizens Participation Act.  We ARE participating in government here–we are lawyers trying to make a difference to make things better for grandma and grandpa.  We don’t care how much money you’re making–directly or indirectly from Probate or a nursing home or home health care wired-in business.  Do yourself a favor and get a different job, it’s not worth it.