Illinois Corruption

Torture of Dr Linda Shelton in Illinois prison

2012-01-28T11:36:00.000-06:00

In Albuquerque, N.M. a federal jury awarded $22 million to Stephen Slevin, 58, for civil rights damages because he was kept in solitary confinement for two years and forced to pull his own tooth after being arrested for drunken driving, even though never convicted. He never saw a judge! Slevin was arrested while driving through the southern New Mexico county of Dona Ana in August 2005. He ended up in solitary confinement because he was suffering from depression and someone checked a box on a form indicating he was suicidal according to his attorney Matt Coyte. Although given drugs for depression he never saw a doctor until weeks before his release. Slevin was released in June 2007. "He was stuck in a 6-foot-by-11-foot cell with a concrete bench for a bed. And he sat in that cell. We had documentary evidence that he didn’t get out for anything — for recreation, a shower — for months at a time,” according to his attorney. For more details see Washington Post article here.

The same thing happenedto me. I was wrongfully convicted of aggravated battery of an officer (ramminghim with my wheelchair) - when Cook Co Dept of Corrections Sgt Anthony Salemiattacked me, falsified his records, and committed perjury. I was sentenced totwo years.

Read my appeal here.

Read the outrageous improper unconstitutional IL Appellate Court decision wherethey ignored my arguments and the law and denied my appeal based on defamatoryad hominem attacks against me making all sorts of false statements about methat were not in the trial record and that they got through hearsay from othercorrupt officials here.

Read a detailed description of what happened here.

At the IL Dept of Corrections Dwight Correctional Center, despite beingdisabled and very sick at the time (unable to walk and having diarrhea all overmyself), I was punished with solitary confinement for months- denied water forfour days while unable to sit up and get to the water fountain in the cell -denied underwear, wash cloth, towel, soap or anything in the cell except asuicide smock and two inch mattress on the floor - because they Cook CountyJail falsely told them in order to torture me that I was faking my medicalproblems ( I have a partial right hemiparesis, heart and lung disorders, andchronic pain) - denied appropriate medications - not let out of the cell foreven an hour a day - denied all phone calls - they ignored everything I said. Idid not shower for months - as the shower in unit was so cold it aggravated myneurological problems and when I did shower made my legs turn blue and painfulfor hours, etc.

When I had a severe, life-threatening reaction to the food (all the meat is soysubstitute and heavily loaded with artificial chemicals, flavors and coloring),(briefly stopped breathing with severe respiratory distress requiring emergencyIV medications - a nurse saved me), they said they "fixed my allergy tothe food" by pureeing the food! That's like giving peanut butter tosomeone allergic to peanuts! The Director of the medical unit was a nursepractitioner!!! So, instead of playing Russian Roulette with the food, I didn'teat, starved and lost 60 lbs in a few months. I was so dehydrated with suchabnormal blood tests that I had to be treated in an emergency room immediatelyafter being released. The prison Dr. Shiker said nothing was wrong with me!! The medical care is provided by incompetent staff from Wexford Medical Group.

This happened in 2008. I am still fighting to be vindicated and to have SgtAnthony Salemi arrested for perjury and battery of me. I am still fighting tohave the Cook County Assistant States Attorney John Maher and Andrew Dalkinarrested for Nifong-like prosecutorial misconduct and Judge Joseph Kazmierskiremoved from the bench for judicial misconduct. It was like the Salem WitchTrials in terms of denial of due process and allowing illegal defamation of meby the prosecutors.

Please write the U. S Attorney General and ask him to assign a team toinvestigate this and interview me. They need to clean up the IL Dept ofCorrections (IDOC). They need to clean up the Cook County courts and arrestcorrupt judges. They need to clean up the corrupt prosecutors and make themlose their law license.

Please contact the news media and ask them to cover this story. This is justthe tip of the iceberg. I have lots of evidence of this happening to others.

Please write to the U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

Cook County Courts total lawlessness, incompetence and corruption - Plea for federal investigation

2011-12-30T11:29:00.007-06:00

The following is a summary and detailed story revealing that the Cook County Courts are lawless, presided over by judges who snub their noses at the United States Supreme Court, the Constitution, Illinois Statutes and Federal Codes, as well as actively work to cover-up the corruptiion of Cook County and Illinois officials.

Transcripts of hearings described are slowly being loaded onto the Internet. They will be appended as they become available. For the transcript where Shelton initially was taken into custody by Dishonorable Cook County Court Judge McHale see this link.

This is a call for action to clean up the courts - a call for a federal investigation - please read this and write the United States Attorney, Cook County Board President Tony Preckwinckle, and Chicago Mayor Emmanuel asking for a federal investigation and write to the Federal Judicial Conference to ask for action at:

Cook County Board President Tony Preckwinkle
118 N. Clark Street Room 537
Chicago, IL 60602
Phone: (312) 603-6400
Fax: (312) 443-4397

Mayor Rahm Emanuel
City Hall
121 N. LaSalle Street
Chicago, Illinois 60602
By Phone:
Dial 311 (within Chicago)
If calling from outside of Chicago, call: 312.744.5000

The Honorable Eric Holder
United States Attorney
Attention: Public Corruption Task Force (Re: Judiciary)
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald
United States Attorney’s Office
Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division
219 S. Dearborn St., 5th Floor
Chicago, IL 60604
Phone: (312) 353-5300

United States Judicial Conference
Care of Honorable Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
The Honorable John Roberts
United States Supreme Court
1 First Street, N.E.
Washington, DC 20543

SUMMARY

I (Dr Linda Lorincz Shelton) was summarily (no notice or trial) held in contempt of court for filing as a non-attorney a next-friend habeas petition and then in my defense telling the judge twice he was committing a crime by refusing to hear the habeas petition. The sentence was 16 months (4 mo, 6 mo, 6 mo consecutive) for 3 “cases” (although they were 3 counts in same hearing continued over several days) of criminal contempt, for saying essentially the same thing three times.

The judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County ("CCCC") have de facto suspended the right to petition for a writ of habeas corpus in Illinois - the next-friend Melongo petition that 19 months later has still not been heard and the habeas for me that was wrongfully denied.

Then both the Illinois appellate court ("IL App Ct") and Illinois Supreme Courts ("IL S Ct") have denied my right for direct appeal as an indigent disabled person on SSI (social security assistance for the disabled) without any explanation in violation of their own IL S Ct Rule 298 which requires waiver of fees for people on public assistance. I am disabled and on SSI and food stamps due to congenital spinal disorder and heart disorder that made me retire from medicine at a young age. I have an outstanding record as a pediatrician with my patients being in the Guinness Book of World Records (1997 ed.) as the “lightest surviving triplets” – born in 1990) and was quite respected by patients in neonatology, general pediatrics specializing in severely handicapped children, and psychiatry. I am also a PhD experimental patholgist.

My two separate habeas petitions were denied by Trial Court and since there is no appeal of habeas in IL, I went to the US Federal District Court and they dismissed habeas stating erroneously that I didn’t exhaust state remedies.

The United States Supreme Court ("US S Crt") Clerk has illegally and erroneously refused to file my pet for certiorari 3 times despite the fact the US S Ct in Niersheimer, Loftus, and Regan cases previously ruled that once habeas is denied by local trial court in IL the only appeal lies with US S Ct. (see following case law at end of this post)

DETAILS

Written on April 25, 2011 by Linda Lorincz Shelton, PhD, MD; Note case law/statutes follow:

We have a Judicial Crisis in Cook County because the level of judicial ignorance, incompetence, and blatant disregard for basic constitutional rights including habeas corpus and due process is so extreme that one can only say that our courts in Cook County are in a state of lawlessness, where they are destructive of American Ideals and Constitutional rights.

I’m going to relate to you right now the details of a group of cases that illustrate this fact, but remember this is only the tip of the iceberg of anarchy and lawlessness in Illinois and Cook County courts. Our constitution means nothing here in Cook County, Illinois. My case (Shelton) is the contempt case and a habeas case and Melongo’s cases of fraudulent charges of computer tampering and eavesdropping for recording a conversation with a court reporter, as well as the habeas case I filed for her as a next-friend are explained as follows. Melongo has now been in custody for more than 19 months. Her first trial on the eavesdropping charge resulted in a hung jury and she is awaiting retrial on that and trial on the computer tampering charge. Case law and state statutes relevant to these cases follow at the end of this writing.

Here is a summary of the two cases against Annabel Melongo, the person being held allegedly without probable cause, and the criminal contempt cases against me for filing a next-friend habeas petition on her behalf, that demonstrate outrageous judicial and prosecutorial misconduct.

Annabel Melongo is a Cameroonian and Haitian citizen, and resident of the United States, who is a computer expert. She took a job with a foundation called Save-A-Life Foundation to manage their computers, a corporation that allegedly trained children in CPR (by computer!?) and trained first responders in CPR. Melongo discovered that they had received over $8 million in government grants from Homeland Security, DHHS, state governments and the Chicago Public Schools. Melongo noticed during her work on their computers that SALF applications to the federal government for millions in grants contained fraudulent information. She turned this over to FBI Special Agent Depooter as a report of fraud upon the government. She also discovered they had not trained as many children or first responders in CPR as they described on their applications for funding.

At the same time Melongo was gleaning this information from her work managing their computers, this foundation was in the middle of being investigated by Chuck Goudie, an Emmy award-winning investigative reporter. In Goudie’s television exposés he interviewed CPS CEO Arne Duncan, who confirmed to Goudie that SALF received $50,000 from the CPS per year but no services training school children in CPR were actually ever provided to the CPS. In total, Goudie documented that SALF obtained greater than $ 8 million from Homeland security, the Illinois Attorney General’s office, and other agencies, but has not provided documentation that this money was actually used to train children and first responders in CPR.

Goudie interviewed the SALF CEO Spizzirri to ask her to provide documentation as to how SALF actually used the grants for CPR training. SALF CEO Spizzirri literally stopped the interview and ran off. To this day SALF has not accounted for millions from the federal and state government in grants to train children and other “first responders” in CPR. Despite info given to FBI and US Atty, Spizzirri has not yet been prosecuted. Links to Goudie’s video interviews follow.

Around the time Goudie was interviewing CEO Spizzirri, Spizzirri fired Melongo and went to the police claiming all SALF financial records were accessed by remote computer and erased. She accused Melongo of doing this. Melongo was then indicted for remote computer tampering and the indictment said the SALF financial records were permanently erased, through a criminal act of remote computer tampering by Melongo. How convenient to divert attention from Spizzirri’s inability to account for how she used government grant money, instead to Melongo for alleged computer tampering.

http://www.cincinnatibeacon.com/index.php?/contents/comments/salf_whistleblower_jailed_on_eavesdropping_charge_500000_bond/

Melongo’s attorney filed a Motion to Dismiss the charges claiming that Schiller Park Det. Martin committed fraud and perjury before the grand jury in obtaining the indictment. Martin testified to the grand jury that Melongo had remotely changed the passwords to the SALF computers and initiated a cascade that deleted the computer financial files.

This was contrary to Det. Martin’s police reports where he verified that a SALF employee had changed the computer passwords AFTER Melongo left, that the computers were disconnected from the servers so that their connection with the Internet was severed, and that the data was never lost, just was temporarily inaccessible. Det. Martin wrote in his reports that a SALF employee changed the passwords, not Melongo, and in so doing accidentally disabled the computers.

http://www.cincinnatibeacon.com/index.php?/contents/comments/attny_for_salf_whistleblower_il_cops_fraud_and_perjury_leads_to_indictment/

Det. Martin also testified that an IL Attorney General’s office computer crime expert assisted the states attorney and in her written report stated Comcast computer IP (Internet Provider) address was used by Melongo to access the SALF computers, but Martin withheld the fact that Comcast had no record of Melongo being a customer, because she used SBC computer services. This crime expert has disappeared and supposedly no longer can be found by the State’s Attorney, but they have not dropped their charges.

Melongo’s attorney, Albukerk, alleged that Det. Martin committed perjury and fraud in obtaining the indictment, that the indictment was therefore invalid, and that the case should be dismissed. He presented this motion to the court and Judge Brosnahan summarily denied it without an evidentiary hearing.

So the Illinois Attorney General’s office and the State’s Attorney of Cook County has absolute proof that Melongo never engaged in this alleged computer tampering and that no computer tampering crime was ever committed. Yet they still refuse to dismiss the charges and Melongo has remained in jail awaiting trial for the past year on a $300,000 bail, reduced from $500,000.

Judge Brosnahan set this extremely high and excessive bail on Melongo who has no criminal history because the State’s Attorney insisted that she was a flight risk because she held dual citizenship in Haiti and Cameroon. I have found no law that states that a person is a flight risk because they are a dual citizen. This bail alone was outrageous judicial mis-conduct.

Spizzirri to this day has never released the financial data to Goudie or the public and there has been no public comment by the FBI about SALF or Carol Spizzirri.

I was an acquaintance of Melongo, so like I did for another person who was being held without probable cause in 2009, I filed a next-friend petition for writ of habeas corpus with the Cook County Circuit Court Presiding Criminal Court Judge Biebel.

In 2009 I filed a habeas petition on behalf of this other person utilizing the Illinois Habeas Statute, 735 ILCS Article 10. Presiding (Chief Criminal Court Division Judge) Judge Biebel granted it by ordering the defendant brought into court and assigning her an attorney for the habeas petition, Prof. Coyne from the Kent School of Law, as required by Cook County Circuit Court Rule 15.2 – which resulted in the defendant’s later release from jail.

Last April and May, 2010, when I filed a next friend habeas petition on behalf of Melongo, Biebel was not available so the Court Clerk sent me to Judge Kazmierski who assigned the case to Judge Brosnahan, Melongo’s trial judge although court rules require the presiding criminal judge to hear habeas petitions and require that the trial judge may not hear the habeas petition.

In Illinois the IL Habeas Statute, 735 ILCS 5/10-103, says that a non-attorney can file a petition for writ of habeas corpus “on behalf of another.” The Court Clerk has an habeas form that includes a spot for three possible filers “attorney, defendant, or a person on behalf of another.”

Judge Brosnahan refused to hear the habeas petition saying that non-attorneys can never file any pleadings on behalf of another. Then I went to Judge Kazmierski and he said the same thing. Then I tried again a few days later and a different judge, Judge Wadas, was filling in for Judge Biebel. He said the same thing and refused to hear the habeas petition! I quoted the IL habeas statute to them and told them the US S Ct in Boumediene v Bush allowed a non-attorney father to file a next-friend habeas petition to no avail.

All these judges therefore violated CLEAR Illinois Statutes and Constitutional rights. This is judicial misconduct! The statute even says that if a judge refuses to hear a habeas petition he can be fined $1000 which must be paid to the defendant. I also informed the judge of this part of the IL habeas statute.

Then I tried a fourth time. This time the petition for writ of habeas corpus was assigned to Judge McHale, sitting in for Judge Biebel. However, Judge Biebel appeared in his chambers half-way through the proceedings and was in his chambers when Judge McHale went in and wrote his contempt papers against me.

I initially insisted on SOJ as a right as Judge Biebel is the presiding criminal court judge and should hear the case, because of the history of the other judges being clueless about habeas petition procedures. However, when Judge McHale, who was filling in for Judge Biebel, agreed to follow 735 ILCS 5/10, I conditionally agreed to let Judge McHale hear the habeas petition then withdrew this agreement when Judge McHale refused to follow this law and stated that a non-attorney may not file a next-friend habeas petition, which proved to me he was also totally ignorant of habeas law, and arrogant to boot. I stated that since he was not following the law I wished to wait for Judge Biebel. He denied my request and proceeded only on the contempt issue against me.

Judge McHale illegally overturned the IL Habeas Statute from the bench, ruling that filing a habeas petition as a non-attorney was an illegal act. I told him that he was mistaken. When I stated in open court, in my defense that the suspension clause in the Constitution, Article I section 9, states that habeas cannot be suspended except in time of war, and that the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in Boumedine v Bush in 2008, that even prisoners at Guantanamo Bay had a right to have their father’s file habeas petitions, Judge McHale found me in contempt of court for “interrupting” him and telling him that he was misinterpreting and violating the law, although when he took me into custody he gave me the impression it was for filing the petition as a non-attorney.

Defending oneself pro se in court using quotes from the law is not an “interruption”; it is a right.

The judge also never ruled on my in forma pauperis petition (request to waive fees due to inability to pay - indigency), said I didn’t have standing, so I don’t think the hearing ever actually began because he said he would not hear the habeas petition. The transcript where we had this very brief conversation and he quickly took me into custody is attached as are all the transcripts from the endlessly continued hearing on my three habeas “cases.”

Judge McHale, without a trial, while continuing the contempt “hearing” several times over several months, summarily ruled that I committed three separate acts of contempt by stating this argument three times and found me in contempt of court on these three, what he called, separate contempt cases. He then summarily sentenced me to consecutive jail terms of four (4) months, six (6) months, and six (6) months, a total of 16 months in jail for doing a legal act and then informing him about the law! He then made several related rulings that denied me good time statutory jail credits to ensure that I would suffer from the entire 16 month jail term.

The transcripts and his findings of contempt are attached. Dates are May 11, 2010, May 24, 2010 (brief just to schedule), June 1, 2010 (brief just to schedule) June 9, 2010, June 10, 2010, October 1, 2010

In jail I was denied paper for three months. I was denied access to the law library – they said all those who are in the infirmary cannot go to the law library. I was constantly in infirmary due to disabilities and chronic heart, lung, and neurologic disease. The law librarian said she was unable to do any legal research and would only bring me case law or statutes if I give her a complete citation. I had to rely on friends I write to in order to obtain legal research and case law – which took months. In late July after being sentenced on May 11, 2010, a physician finally gave me some paper, but I didn’t get any stamps to mail my court pleadings to get them filed with the court for another month and didn’t get a hearing until Oct. 1, 2010. Then the 2nd and 3rd “cases” of contempt were made concurrent and the judge agreed that he had no jurisdiction to deny statutory good time jail credits, thus allowing me to be released after 6 months on Nov. 6, 2010 instead of having to serve the entire 16 months.

I did file for writ of habeas corpus twice; 1^st one transferred to judge Porter and denied “because you can’t obtain habeas relief because you disagree with an order,” and 2^nd one denied by Judge McHale on October 1, 2010 for no specific reason. In IL habeas is severely limited by statute. You can file in the local court (issues of fact and/or law) or the Illinois Supreme Court (ONLY issues of law – see Loftus)

I filed motions to overturn this and he eventually granted some of them reducing the jail term to six months by granting some of the good time jail credits and making two of the sentences concurrent and I was released in November after this blatantly unlawful and unconstitutional conviction and wrongful six-month long incarceration for alleged criminal contempt of court. Of course I tried to appeal this injustice. However the Appellate Court denied my in forma pauperis petition which complied with SCR 298 and then dismissed my case a month later for failing to pay the fee.

Judge McHale knowingly and blatantly violated the Constitution’s suspension clause, rulings of the United States Supreme Court, and the Illinois Habeas statutes and other Illinois Statutes including Good Time Jail Credits and Sentencing statutes that prohibit consecutive sentences for the same act during one case, as well as that require a jury trial for sentences > six (6) months. McHale also violated US S Ct holding that when contempt is found full due process rights are invoked if the sentence is given a different day than the contempt finding. I was denied a trial.

The United States Supreme Court in three other cases including a ruling by Chief Justice Marshal held that when a judge knowingly and purposely violates law, and that can include violating the constitution, violating statutes, or violating U.S. Supreme Court rulings, then the judge is “waring on the constitution” in violating his oath of office. US Supreme Court Chief Justice Marshall declared that “waring on the constitution” is an act of treason against the United States. See Cohens v Virginia, US v Will, and Cooper v Aaron that follow. I quoted these cases to the judge and urged him not to violate the law.

The story gets even more exciting because Melongo, prior to her bail being raised to $500,000, read the law and discovered that to be indicted a person must have the charges in a case read against them in open court. She did not remember any of the charges ever being read to her (She didn’t understand that the attorney she later fired had waived reading). She thought the court reporter had falsified the court transcript of the alleged arraignment by stating on the transcript that Melongo had been arraigned. Melongo is highly educated and although English is her third language, she is rapidly educating herself about the law, after initially being confused by English (innocent until proven guilty) versus Roman (guilty until proven innocent) law and language issues (her native language is French and then she lived in Germany and learned German).

Melongo also read the Illinois eavesdropping statutes that said it was a felony crime in Illinois to record a conversation without the other person’s permission. She also read that the law said that if a person has a reasonable suspicion that the person they were recording had committed a crime then it was not illegal to record them, as this was an exception to the law.

The eavesdropping law is a great controversy in Illinois as it is a felony even to record a police officer on your cell phone who is committing a crime or illegally arresting you. Recently a Southern Illinois judge declared this statute unconstitutional and the State's Attorney for that county is appealing that decision.

Melongo then recorded a conversation with the court reporter’s office staff, where she thought it was probable that they would admit that she was not arraigned, and that they had falsified the transcript which is a crime. Melongo thought this would be reason to throw out the case quickly as arraignment is a requirement and a right before a person can be tried. Melongo then put this recording on her web site which she had posted describing the alleged false arrest for computer tampering. Melongo posted everything from her case on line in a beautiful and incredibly easy to read and wonderful web site, since taken down, but on a DVD in her former attorney’s possession, which may have already been turned over to her.

Incredibly, when the Court recently allowed Melongo to represent herself, the Court ordered her former attorney Albukerk to turn over his files to the prosecutor! This is an absolute reason to have the case dismissed for prosecutorial and judicial misconduct making a fair trial impossible. The Cook County State's Attorney should have refused to accept this file. Albukerk however did withhold some confidential communications between him and his client. If you wish to speak with Mr. Albukerk, his phone is 773 847-2600

The States Attorney then arrested Melongo for eavesdropping and now wants to try her and convict her of a felony for recording her conversation with the court reporter without the court reporter’s permission. This is insanity! Where is this crime? Who's been hurt? When is the intent to commit a crime? Where is the probable cause? This sure seems like Gestapo tactics!

Note that a southern Illinois judge recently ruled that the eavesdropping statute in Illinois is unconstitutional and dismissed a similar case. Annabel, now on home arrest has filed a similar motion to dismiss her eavesdropping case as unconstitutional.

Judge Brosnahan set Melongo’s bail at $30,000 for felony eavesdropping, and because she was a flight risk due to the fact she holds dual passports, Brosnahan raised the bail on the computer tampering charge for violation of bail from a personal recognizance bond to a $500,000 bail, which Albukerk was able to get later reduced to the present $300,000, clearly outrageous in amount for this case, which should have been dismissed. Who ever heard of raising a bail from a personal recognizance bail to a $1/2 million bail for a non-violent crime without a victim on a first time offender!

This entire situation is out of control and can only be described as lawlessness due to police and judicial misconduct, in total violation of the law. I prefer to call the above Nazi-like tactics. Defame and crush your opponent, those that have evidence of your criminal conduct! Shut them up and destroy them! It's time for the public to be informed and to fight back legally with the help of the press and civil rights activists.

If four (4) judges, including three (3) senior criminal court judges can so blatantly deny Melongo’s and my most important Constitutional right to file a petition for writ of habeas corpus, as well as deny our constitutional rights to due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment to be free of arrest without probable cause and jail Melongo without probable cause for now nearly two years so far and me for six months after initially sentencing me without a trial to 16 months in jail, then the judges can get away with violating ANY law.

The acts of these judges are impeachable. This lawlessness must stop NOW!

I have filed a notice of appeal with the Illinois Appellate Court, but the court has issued an order denying my motion for indigency status and waiver of fees. Despite the fact that the U.S. government has declared me indigent and granted me SSI as a disabled person for several years, despite the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an indigent person must have the fees waived for criminal appeals, Burns v. State of Ohio, 360 U.S. 252 (1959); Griffin v. Illinois, 351 U.S. 12 (1956); and Smith v. Bennett, 365 U.S. 708 (1961); as well as despite the fact that Illinois Supreme Court rule 298 mandates that fees be waived for indigent litigants receiving government benefits, the Illinois Appellate Court Clerk has been ordered not to accept any court filings from Me until I pay all fees.

Therefore, my constitutionally guaranteed right to appeal, or Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process rights has been denied. Appeal has now been dismissed for "want of prosecution" because I didn’t pay the fee of $25, which may seem small, but I will no longer condone criminal conduct by the court and extortion.

I’ve suffered a total civil death including destruction of my family and there is no reason now to give in to corruption

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No reason was given by the Illinois Appellate Court to refuse to grant my indigency status.
The same is true for the Illinois Supreme Court which has also ordered that the Clerk not accept any filings from me, thus denying me a right to appeal these wrongful and unconstitutional convictions. Again, no reason has been given for them to violate their own rule 298, the Constitution, or state statutes regarding waiving indigent’s court fees.

I am now trying to file a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court asking them to issue a supervisory order to the Illinois courts to enforce their previous holdings which mandate that fees are waived for criminal appeals, as well as asking the U.S. Supreme Court to view the above as exhaustion of state remedies and hear the case as a direct appeal.

The story of why these senior judges are so viciously attacking me is complicated but involves the fact that I have evidence of felony crimes by the Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and several senior Cook County Court and Illinois Appellate Court judge, as well as evidence of corruption among some 7^th Circuit Court judges through a loose network of whistle blowers who have been carefully gathering evidence about government corruption for 10 years, including against Gov. Blagojevic and previous governors.

For more info see:

http://cookcountyjudges.wordpress.com and

http://7thcircuitcourts.wordpress.com

A few brief points in illustration are as follows.

I have been illegally arrested more than 35 times in nine years in retaliation for my complaints and whistle blowing. I have mostly represented myself and now won more than 25 cases. However I have been wrongfully convicted of eight cases of criminal contempt for telling judges they were violating the law and so far I have had three convictions overturned and I am working to get the other five including the three mentioned in this post overturned ASAP.

I have also been wrongfully convicted of one case of felony battery of an officer for allegedly "bumping" him with my wheelchair and "kicking" him in the chest with my legs causing "soreness", although I am totally innocent, he attacked me, he falsified his records and committed perjury and the two States Attorneys Andy Dalkin and John Mahrer committed Nifong-like prosecutorial misconduct and Dishonorable Judge Kazmierski committed grotesque judicial misconduct to bias the jury and convict me. I was illegally sentenced to two years in prison, although the law required my maximum sentence to be probation due to my benign history. For more information on this case and my efforts to have it overturned and have Sgt. Anthony Salemi, the creep that attacked me arrested see:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/16301520/Appeal-of-Wrongful-Conviction-Battery-IL-Appellate-Court-073386-Shelton-Illinois-2009

I, from jail was allowed to mail one document to the federal court and I filed a multipurpose letter in my two civil rights cases that are pending in the District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, 1:09-cv-02353 and 1:09-cv-06413, which are civil rights suits against Cook County Sheriff staff for excessive force (attacks and beatings on me), malicious prosecution, willful indifference to medical needs, etc. They have passed the state of motions to dismiss and have a good chance of succeeding. I wish I had counsel to represent me. This letter stated that I was denied access to the courts while in jail from May 2010 to November 2010 in that the law librarian refused to do any legal research and because I was denied paper for 4 months, as well as denied access to the law library as the Sheriff has a policy that all prisoners held in the infirmary may not go to the law library, I was unable to write proper motions. This amounts to unconstitutional denial of access to the courts.

This letter asked Federal Judge Hart and Judge Dow to consider the letter a petition for federal writ of habeas corpus. Judge Hart denied it stating that I had not exhausted state remedies, which is a false statement. I have now written a motion to reconsider this (to be filed), but it is also requested in a motion for enlargement of the discovery period, which I have written is a factual document that for purposes of judicial economy will not be repeated but will be incorporated in all my other motions including the one to vacate dismissal of request for letter to serve as petition for writ of habeas corpus and motion for leave to amend and resubmit petition for writ of habeas corpus.

The purpose of these illegal acts is to defame Dr. Linda Shelton, Dr. Maisha Hamilton, Naomi Jennings and Vernon Glass so as to discredit them as witnesses to corruption as well as to cover-up the criminal acts by public officials like Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan who has committed fraud upon the courts and her staff along with the Illinois State Police’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (IL MFCU) and their administrators in the State Police have defrauded the United States Government and specifically the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by fraudulently obtaining millions of dollars in funds for illegal use by the IL MFCU. The fraud was that they had made false statements on their application for recertification and funding of the IL MFCU and used these funds to illegally prosecute cases of Medicaid fraud, when there was no Medicaid fraud. The State Police, specifically Investigator William Reibel, even fabricated false billing invoices in order to falsely imprison a whistle blower against government corruption, as well as knowingly prosecuted me without probable cause having in their possession evidence that someone forged my name in order to illegally bill Medicaid.

I was found not guilty by jury trial in that we proved ID theft of my Medicaid number used by some corrupt persons to falsely bill Medicaid – something the prosecutor, Lisa Madigan was fully aware of all along. They did this to defame me and discredit me as a witness against corrupt officials, police, and judges.

The applications for federal funding for the IL MFCU were signed by the Director of the Illinois State Police, through his employee, Don Thorpe, Director of the IL MFCU in 2001.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/54453666/Evidence-Treason-by-Illinois-Attorney-General-Madigan-Illinois-State-Police

They admit that the IL Attorney General by law has NO JURISDICTION or authority to prosecute Medicaid Fraud and that they must refer such cases to the U.S. Attorney. Yet they prosecuted at least three groups, all of which were innocent of fraud, convicting two, one with invoices fabricated by the Illinois State Police Investigator William Reibel. Legitimate cases of Medicaid Fraud are prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney. Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephan A. Kubiatowski is the head of the Chicago U.S. Attorney task force on Medicaid and Medicare fraud, yet his sister, Illinois Department of Professional Regulation Administrative Law Judge Lucia Kubiatowski was personally involved in making illegal rulings against me in order to suspend my medical license.

For further details see:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/01/17/936975/-Defendant-Melongo-still-denied-right-to-question-false-arrest-with-habeas-trial-result-in-hung-jury-
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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Linda Lorincz Shelton, PhD, MD, a graduate of the University of Chicago (B.A with honors and M.S. immunolog) and the Medical University of South Carolina (PhD in experimental pathology with training in forensic pathology, M.D.), born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Chicago, is a civil rights activist, retired physician and retired medical researcher, as well as a paralegal and medical malpractice consultant. She is a self-trained expert on constitutional law having known US Atty Gen. Ed Levi and been initially inspired 40 yrs ago by his little book on constitutional law. She has self-studied law as a hobby since that time and particularly likes to follow the writings and arguments of her high school classmate Erwin Chemerinsky (a constitutional law expert, law school Dean, and potential US S Ct justice) as well as the cases defended by Gerry Spence (well known for obtaining a multimillion dollar judgement in favor of Silwood's children - Silkewood is a famous whistle blower who died and was portrayed in a Hollywood movie). Shelton specialized in helping multiple disabled children and her patients are in the Guinness Book of World Records, 1997 Ed., as the “lightest set of triplets,” (Vincent triplets) as well as advocating for the poor, the mentally ill, the disabled, and other victims of injustice in our county. She is disabled herself, due to exposure in utero to diethylstilbestrol producing congenital spinal problems. She has been working to assist the wrongfully convicted over a number of years, even putting herself in harm’s way in order to help, and has been documenting judicial and police incompetence and corruption in Cook County. She is a victim of wrongful conviction and is fighting every day to counter the defamation against her and recover from the civil death that plagues her, while coping with her serious and multiple disabilities, exacerbated by brutal treatment in jail and prison, on top of a previous sexual assault, resulting in a serious case of PTSD (post-traumatic-stress disorder).

She has been examined by a nationally renowned forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Richard Rappaport, at her request to counter defamation against her and he has published his findings in the American Journal of Psychiatry and the Law as an editorial, where he states:

"Neither woman was psychotic, malingering about the abusive consequences, or otherwise not entitled to the right to refuse treatment or the right to resist abuse." . . .

" Labeling them as mentally ill led to their being apprehended by the police who treated both of them as if they were criminals, rather than patients, as those in charge assumed the women's protestations were evidence that they needed to be restrained and tranquilized. The courts in turn disregarded their complaints because of the diagnosis of psychosis, and thus the abuse continued from one venue to another.

In each case, these women sought restitution of their good names and their rights and compensation for the abuse suffered. Both attempted to do so without the use of lawyers.

AZ's [Linda Shelton's] victimization appeared to be the result of her being considered psychotic and her fighting a system that was undermined by politics and politicians. This power was vested in AZ's hospital board of directors as well as city and state officials. It is thus not surprising that the courts in turn were influenced adversely against her." ...

" The ethics we need to operate a reliable and safe society depend on rectifying the kinds of abuses to which these two physicians were subjected." [In his editorial: "Complications of Misdiagnosis", J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 34:436-8, 2006, by Dr. Richard G. Rappaport]

Shelton blogs about Illinois corruption, giving details with names, dates and evidence at the following blogs – which have made her a target of the corrupt she is exposing – resulting in numerous false arrests and false prosecutions. She also has a personal blog with her opinions about issues of the day:

http://cookcountyjudges.wordpress.com

http://cookcountysheriffdeputies.wordpress.com

http://chicagofbi.wordpress.com

http://prosechicago.wordpress.com

http://illinoispolice.wordpress.com

http://illinoiscorruption.blogspot.com

http://drlindashelton.wordpress.com

http://7thcircuitcourts.wordpress.com
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CASE LAW/STATUTES

The case law supporting the above includes:

A) violation of IL Substitution of Judge (“SOJ”) as Right Statutes, 735 ILCS 5/2-1001 which make all orders given after denial of this SOJ as a right void (I asked for SOJ at the beginning of the hearing and McHale refused – so this means that McHale’s orders after this refusal are void per statute);
B) in violation of Habeas Statutes, 735 ILCS 5/10-103 which allow a person to file an habeas petition on “behalf of another”;
C) in violation of Good Time Jail Allowance statute, 730 ILCS 130, which gives jurisdiction for such credits to the county sheriff and not the judge, People v. Russel, 237 Ill.Epp.3d 310 (1992); People v. Prater, 158 Ill.App.3d 330 (1987); Kaeding v. Collins, 281 Ill.App.3d 919 (1996),
D) in violation of IL sentencing statutes requiring concurrent sentences for the same conduct or acts occurring during the same state of mind, 720 ILCS 5/3-3, ; and
E) in violation of the U.S. Supreme Court as well as Illinois Appellate and Supreme Court holdings which:
1) require jury trial if sentences exceed 6 months aggregate for contempt, Bloom v. Illinois, 391 U.S. 194 (1968); Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145 (1968);
2) forbid sentencing for more than one count of contempt representing same motive or state of mind during one trial or case, People v Brown, 235 Ill.App.3d 945 (1992);
3) require jury trial if contempt sentence is summarily imposed on a day other than the day in which the contemptuous act occurred, In re Marriage Betts, 200 Ill.App.3d 26 (1990); Winning Moves,Inc., v. Hi! Baby, Inc. 238 Ill.App.3d 834 (1992); Kaeding v. Collins, 281 Ill.App.3d 919 (1996), and
4) specifically state it is legal for a non-attorney to file a next-friend petition for writ of habeas corpus, U.S. ex rel. Toth v. Quarles, 350 U.S. 11, 76 S.Ct 1 (1955) and Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723 (2008);
5) state that defending a contempt charge by vigorously quoting law is not contemptuously insulting the court, Sacher v United States, 343 U.S.1 (1952); People v. Siegel, 68 Ill.Dec. 118; People v. Powell, 187 Ill.Dec. 774; United States v. Oberhellmann, 946 F.2d 50,
6) state that when a judge is embroiled in controversy with litigant he must recuse himself for a contempt trial and be replaced by another judge, Mayberry v. Pennsylvania, 400 U.S. 455 (1971); Kaeding v. Collins, 281 Ill.App.3d 919 (1996);
7) state that a judge may not order denial of statutory good time jail credits, People v. Russel, 237 Ill.App.3d 310 (1992); People v. Prater, 158 Ill.App.3d 330 (1987); Kaeding v. Collins, 281 Ill.App.3d 919 (1996),
8) state that a judge’s orders are void when the orders are made without jurisdiction, United States v. United Mine Workers of America, 330 U.S. 258 (1947).

These sentences by Judge McHale were acts of felony treason, a violation of 18 U.S.C. §2381, punishable by a sentence of 20 yrs to life, per previous holdings and/or dicta of the United States Supreme Court and were in retaliation for Shelton’s whistle blowing against corrupt judges, police, and State officials, including:

1) that the judges in U.S. v. Will, 449 U.S. 200 (1980) affirmed the statement of Chief Justice Marshall in Cohens v. Virginia, 6 Wheat. 264, 5 L.Ed 257 (1821) that it is “treason on the constitution” when a judge “usurps [the jurisdiction] that which is not given” – referring to acting outside the law or violating the law including statutes and higher court holdings; and
2) that it is a “war on the constitution” when a judge violates his oath of office to support it [including supporting statutes of a state = due process], Cooper v. Aaron,358 U.S. 1, 78 S.Ct. 1401(1958).
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Note: The IL MFCU application for recertification from 2001 that I received in 2010, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request sent in 2006, admits that the IL MFCU is federally funded and that the IL AG has NO JURISDICTION to prosecute Medicaid Fraud and that they refer all such cases to the U.S. Attorney or County State’s Attorney can be seen here. You can read the application, the indictment against me and see the forged signatures on documents allowing billing Medicaid under my name (not my signature and therefore proof of ID theft and proof they knew there was no probable cause to charge me – I got these documents from AG Madigan in discovery before trial) can be seen here.

Links to articles about Melongo’s cases and the links to evidence proving there is no probable cause against her can be found here.

Shelton contempt hearing transcripts:

Part 1, May 11, 2010

Part 2, May 11, 2010

Part 1, June 9, 2010

Part 2, June 9, 2010

Oct 1, 2010

Protest abuse of elderly, disabled, children by courts, August 12, 2011

2011-08-11T10:42:00.004-05:00

For Immediate Release

Contact: Gwendolyn Chubb 773-377-5468

Linda Shelton – picepil@aol.com, or David Bambic – ildbambic@govabuse.org

People United In Protest Across the USA to Stop

Judicial Abuse of American Families

Chicago – United Standing Up for Justice to Stop Judicial Abuse is what dozens of Illinois families will gather for this week across this nation and right in front of the Circuit Court of Cook County Family Division. Thousands of children, disabled and elderly Americans have been removed from their loved ones without factual evidence by the courts, no clear and convincting evidence. Removal is often a result of false accusations from the actual abuser or exploiter! Investigations by child representatives, guardians, and CPS (DCFS) are inadequate and no due process is provided. Judges routinely prohibit the accused parent from presenting witnesses and evidence. Protective parents and children who seek the assistance of the courts when a loved one is being abused become the victims of a billion dollar corruption ring that exists today in the court systems and is protected by those who are to serve and protect the community.

For more information see first six (6) YouTube videos and posts on the web site: Cook County Judges, devoted to documenting illegal abuse of litigants and defendants by the courts.

Billions of dollars are used from the Title IV D program to literally destroy families.

Wonda Guider, a mother who filed for an Order of Protection to keep her six year old daughter safe from abuse stated, “I went to the courts to help protect my child. A Guardian Ad Litem was placed by Judge Panter and the unimaginable happened, my daughter was ripped from our home. The courts GAVE HER TO THE ABUSER. I fight for Justice today and protest against the GAL’s Office for all the harm they have done to my child and we stand for all children across this nation being victimized by the court system.”

Gwendolyn Chubb, a mother who has not seen her children for over 3 years because of a FRAUDULENT ORDER signed by Judge Edward Arce who later recused himself for having prior contact with her ex-husband’s boss Commissioner Roberto Maldonado stated, “I protest today because of the excruciating and agonizing pain I must live with each day I am without my children. My children were ripped from me without cause or reason…I stand today in prayer for my children and pray that this never happens to anyone anywhere ever again.”

Many of the cases of abuse have gone to the FBI and the Department of Justice without results. Many advocates for these families believe that the very courts that were established to interpret the constitution and assure the rule of law are allowed to run the courts like a cartel that abuse the system that we the American people pay for through our tax revenue.

Dave Bambic, a father whose children have been removed from him withyout cause as te DCFS allegations of neglect or abuse were declared UNFOUNDED said, “Judge Haracz and Child Rep David Wessel conspire to alienate me from being the primary caregiver of my children. They have told me that I will be made an example of in Judge Haracz’ court room. I stand for Justice today because Maggie and Hannah love their father and I pray for all children who suffer like my girls in this nation because of corruption.”

Sandra Padron during a divorce when her son complained of being beaten in the stomach by the father until he was sick and as a pediatrician she found suggestive signs of child abuse on her baby, had her children removed from her and placed with the abuser when she called DCFS and asked for an investigation because the investigation, which was incomplete, was declared unfounded. She has been denied unsupervised visits for more than one hour per week with her children because the judge said this was a sign of mental illness. Sandra says, her toddler is reported to be running around the house crying “Mommy, Mommy, Mommy.” Regina Scannicchio, the court appointed child representative has made no effort to thorougly investigate this case or bring these facts to the attention of the judge. She refuses even to look at the diary pages from the older children documenting the abuse.

Child Representatives & Guardian Ad Litems are court appointed and CHARGE FEES ANYWHERE FROM $400 – $1200 PER OUR. Legal fees for these attorneys are paid from funds through the Social Security Title IV D Fund. Also it is known practice that family court Judges run private referral services with therapists that they personally know and many families are bankrupted by these fees. Hudge sums are charged parents to pay for supervised visits and guardian's services, bankrumpting the families - all ordered without due process.

Therapists are to serve the best interest and welfare of the children but in many cases the children are emotionally raped and alienated from one of their parents to benefit the corruptive practices of the “courtroom cartel”.

Salvador Contreras, who back in 2009 reported the neglect, abuse & suicidal thoughts of his daughter in the home of her mother & stepfather stated,”I went to the court system to help save my daughter but instead of helping my child Judge Katz places an ORDER OF PROTECTION AGAINST ME WITH HEARSAY FROM MY CHILD’S ABUSER. Then my worst nightmare happens my child is taken from me for 1 ½ years and we can only see her once a week presently. Her court appointed therapist Dr Beth Wilner never allows her to talk about her suicidal thoughts and we can never discuss the true problems but Dr Wilner does discuss her fees and monthly bills”.

Many of these court appointed therapist are part of the corruption and abuse of innocent children and the financial ruin of their families who pay high fees for “therapy” sessions. Families who are placed in this corruptive scenario FILE BANKRUPTCY BECAUSE OF COURT ORDERED THERAPY AND LEGAL FEES. Families lose their homes and college funds.

Gloria Sykes, WHOSE 91 YEAR OLD MOTHER WAS NEVER DECLARED INCOMPETENT BUT WAS IMPRISONED IN A NURSING HOME, STRIPPED OF HER ASSETS AND PLACED UNDER GUARDIANSHIP was ripped from her care said,”I compare this court abuse of the elderly to Hitler’s concentration camps. The pain, fear and the unknown wrongful suffering is unimaginable. I rally today for justice and to stop the court and its officers from abusing our families.”

Julie Contreras, an advocate for many families and whose stepchild is being victimized by the “Court Cartel” stated, “Judges in the family courts today are the ones who determine the fate of many children. All these individuals who partake in the family court system are human and very capable of being wrong, careless, corrupt or just plain lazy. MISTAKES ARE MADE BY JUDGES AND INNOCENT CHILDREN BECOME VICTIMIZED by the very system that was created to protect
them.”

Victims and advocates will stand united to stop the abusive practices of removing a child or elderly person from the custody of the protective parent or family in the court system. At the beginning of each hour of the protest a prayer will be offered to stop the abuse of children, disabled and elderly across this nation.

Organizers of the event invite the public to join and support the families and stop the abuse.

When: August 12, 2011

Time: 9am – 5pm

Where: Noth Daley Center Plaza
50 W. Washington
Chicago, IL -

and in every major city in the United States – see: http://govabuse.com for the location of the protest site in your city

Cook County Court Clerk grossly negligent; rap sheets useless & inaccurate; failure to transmit notices of appeal; failure to file lawsuits from indigent plaintiffs; call for her resignation

2011-07-18T18:02:00.002-05:00

Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown-official portrait

The principle job of the Cook County Court Clerk is to keep accurate records and in the case of the criminal courts transmit these records to the Illinois State Police. She is also by statute required to transmit Notices of Appeal filed with her office to the Illinois Appellate Court within five days, as well as orders granting or denying indigency petitions to the litigant (plaintiff or defendant) "promptly" or by mail if the llitigant isn't present.

The ISP is required by law to maintain records of criminal histories on Illinois residents. These records help to generate a rap sheet for persons arrested including a record of convictions, acquittals, and bond forfeitures. These records are also sent to the FBI for their criminal database.

Rap sheets are used by law enforcement officers and judges to determine bail amounts when someone is arrested. If the person has lots of bond forfeitures for failing to appear in court or has a heavy record of convictions for serious crimes, then the judge will set a high bail amount.

Rap sheets are also used by companies, schools and government in employment decisions and can seriously affect a person's ability to obtain a job if they reveal information of careless behavior like refusing to come to court or convictions.

Failure to keep accurate court records and to transmit them to the ISP violates civil rights as it subjects arrestees to excessive bail without due process, a violation of the 5th and 14th Amendments to the constitution which mandate due process in criminal procedures, as well as discrimination regarding obtaining a job. False statements on rap sheets amount to defamation of character.

This writer reviewed over 30 cases in the criminal courts in Cook County where Clerk Brown oversees maintenance of records. She compared them to the judge’s notes and orders hand written in the files and to the ISP criminal history or rap sheet. The following were some of the numerous errors noted:

There was NO record in the docket transmitted to the ISP and FBI of any preliminary bond forfeiture orders which were quashed, where the defendant did not show up in court, a warrant was issued, and a preliminary bond forfeiture order was entered, and then the defendant later showed up with a good excuse such as they were in the hospital or in jail and were not brought to court due to no fault of their own.

One defendant who was arrested on misdemeanor battery, was disabled, and had four preliminary bond forfeitures which were quashed because she was in hospital or had other good excuses. She has a history of coming to court. The Court Clerks failed to transmit to the ISP court dispositions quashing the bond forfeitures. The writer checked with the court assistant clerks and found out that they NEVER transmit notic to the ISP that bond forfeitures are quashed, which happens at least 1/2 the time.

The ISP records do not have any records that the bond forfeitures were quashed so the prosecutor told the judge that the defendant was a "flight risk" with a history of ignoring court orders, which is totally false. The rap sheet appeared to have four bond forfeitures as they only listed the preliminary bond forfeiture orders. Despite the defendant's attorney, acting as an "officer of the court," stating that the ISP rap sheet was incorrect, Judge Feerick refused to believe him and set bail at $50,000 instead of the usual $1,000 for a misdemeanor case. This caused the defendant to be needlessly and wrongfully incarcerated. This defames the defendant and affects her ability to obtain a job. This was clear bias by Judge Feerick to believe the states attorney and not the defendant's attorney.

There were numerous instances where the court records reveal that the defendant was out on bond, but the ISP were told the defendant was in custody and vice versa. There were numerous entries in the docket that clearly were incorrectly placed in one case's docket but belonged in another case.

The errors are endless. Total error rate, regarding significant entries in the court's docket (computerized record) revealed a 37% error rate (number of cases with significant errors divided by total number of cases). Significant errors included failure to record dispositions correctly, failure to record orders correctly, entries in the wrong docket, and failure to record an order.

This writer discussed the above with a number of low ranking court clerks.

They all wished to remain anonymous, but said that Clerk Brown almost never visits their offices; there appears to be no mechanism to catch errors; over the past few years the clerk's have become demoralized, feel abused and neglected and therefore have a careless attitude about their jobs. One admitted that many of them just don't care anymore and that is why the error rate is so high. They admitted that the jobs of the supervisors have more to do with patronage than with talent. They do not believe their supervisors know what they are doing. They think Clerk Brown is unqualified to do her job and is only concerned about things like computerizing the filing of complaints. They wish that a concerned, energetic, and qualified person would be appointed as Clerk, who would provide true oversight.

This error rate is so large that the rap sheets in the ISP hands should be considered totally unreliable and the judges and police should not use them to set bail or for any other reason. This is a very serious dereliction of duty of the Cook County Court Clerk.

The ISP should investigate this and confirm what I have written here. This is a major catastrophe for law enforcement and the courts. It must be corrected quickly.

This failure of the Court Clerk to perform her statutory duties to keep accurate records is outrageous and serious. In conjunction with Clerk Brown's corruption of the appeal process, the only thing for her to do at this point is resign immediately. The FBI and U.S. Attorney should investigate this also to see if pay-to-play or "theft of honest services" is the reason for this gross negligence of the Cook County Court Clerk.

This writer met with Clerk Brown in December 2009. She said she would look into the issue of corruption of the appellate process, failure to transmit dispositions to the ISP and other issues. One of the other issues was that she violates her statutory duty to transmit Notices of Appeal to the Illinois Appellate Court within five days as required by the Illinois Supreme Court Rule She systematically fails to do so, instead, as she admitted transmitting a "notice of notice of appeal." Even though the County Circuit Court loses jurisdiction the moment a notice of appeal is file, Clerk Brown transmits the notices of appeal to Presiding Criminal Court Judge Biebel - this is illegal. He then decides whether or not to transmit them to the Illinois Appellate Court. He has no jurisdiction to withhold them, decide anything about them, or to order them transmitted. This has been going on for more than a decade and is a flat out violation of Illinois law. Both Clerk Brown and Judge Biebel are aware of this! Brown has made NO contact with this writer since December 2009 about this issue, after our meeting witnessed by her attorney, her chief clerk, and a private attorney.

Brown also allows her clerks to follow Judge Maddux's illegal order to NOT promptly give orders (decisions) on indigeny petitions presented to his office to the litigant (plaintiff) waiting in the courtroom. They instead take them down to the Clerk's law division office, along with any other papers that the litigant had attached for the judge to view. The litigant is then forced to go down several floors and wait in line for their orders that should have been handed to them in the courtroom. All attorneys (and pro se counsel) are routinely given copies of orders issued by judges in the courtrooms of the Daley Center without charge. The statutes and Illinois Supreme Court Rules also state that the Clerk must file any lawsuits filed by indigent defendants who have filed an indigency petition at the same time WITHOUT CHARGE, regardless of the judge's order. If the judge denies the indigency petition then the litigant will be allowed to make a payment schedule if that is what the judge writes. Judge Maddux purposely refuses to tell the litigant his decision in the courtroom so if he denies the petition, the petitioner will have to re-motion it up to ask for a payment schedule and delay filing his/her suit. There would be no delay if Brown filed the lawsuit, but if the petition is denied, her clerks are instructed not to file the suits until they receive payment. This is illegal and a violation of statute. The act of Judge Maddux's clerk taking the lawsuit and order to the clerk's office and placing it on the desk is also illegal, as clerks are not allowed to perform the act of filing a lawsuit for a litigant. Only the litigant may present the lawsuit and judge's order to the filing clerks.

Judge Maddux has this illegal scheme to inhibit the filing of indigent pro se lawsuits that includes limiting presenttio of such indigency petitions in his courtroom to only between 11:30 and 12 noon each day. He leaves the bench and during this time his clerks gather the petitions and take them to his chambers. It is rumored that his clerks make the indigency decision, which would be an illegal act. Judge Maddux refuses to sit on the bench and consider the petitions in front of the litigants or ask them questions, or allow them to explain their situations and ask for reconsideration if he rejects their petitions.. Judge Maddux makes sure to inconvenience (harass) the pro se litigants by making them wait through lunch until at least 1:00 pm or 1:30 pm before he has the clerk go out to the courtroom and tell the litigants to follow him to the court clerk's 8th floor law division office and wait in line by the filing clerks. The filing clerks then will take the pile of papers handed to them by Judge Maddux's clerk including the petitions for indigeny and attached lawsuits and if they had not already been filed, they will file them if the order approved the indigency petition and refuse to file them without payment of the filing fee if the order denied the indigency petition.

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In the interest of full disclosure, the disabled defendant is this writer. During a court hearing on a fraudulent trespass charge against me (see below for details) Sheriff Deputy Stanislavski stepped in front of my walker (I am disabled) and pushed his body against it after I complained that Deputy Sheriff Norris inappropriately grabbed my arm and told me to shut up in a courtroom where I was representing myself on a wrongful arrest and fraudulent misdemeanor trespass charge. Judge Hyland failed to speak up and admonish the deputy.

The Sheriff courtroom deputies are inadequately trained in that they are trained to tell defendants to shut up in the courtroom. However, when a defendant is representing themselves as pro se counsel, they have the same rights as an attorney to speak up, object, etc. I was successfully representing myself as the charge was later dismissed by the state (nolle prosequi) without explanation.

I told Deputy Sheriff Norris to stop "assaulting me" and that I had a right to speak up like an attorney when I was representing myself. Stanislavski said quietly under his breath so the court reporter wouldn't hear him: "if you're going to charge her with assault, I'm going to charge you with battery." He claimed no injury. The judge said nothing as their was no assault to see.

The transcript of the hearing I was in reveals there was no battery. Judge Hyland was inappropriately yelling at me when I politely interrupted her and said she had made an error of law in stating that trespass to real property was a class A misdemeanor. I told the judge it was actually a class B misdemeanor and the judge got annoyed. I later copied the law and showed the judge she was in error. Judge Hyland then transferred the case to another judge.

That trespass case is also fraudulent against this writer because I was arrested for ringing the doorbell of a house, no one answered, and there was NEVER any notice not to come on the property. There is no probable cause on a trespass charge if there was no notice by the owner or occupant or no posted sign against trespassing. Without notice, a charge of trespass is unconstitutional as it violates the Fourth Amendment which prohibits arrest without probable cause. The Evergreen Park Police corruptly claim that they notified writer by phone not to come on the property. There are six Linda Sheltons in the Chicago area. Their records reveal they called the wrong Linda Shelton and therefore there was no notice and therefore no crime committed and no probable cause - the phone number on their records is NOT mine. The charge was later dropped by the States Attorney (nolle prosequi) without explanation. For more info see:

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Illinois Trespass to Real Property law:

720 ILCS 5/21-3
Sec. 21-3. Criminal trespass to real property.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (a)(5), whoever:
(1) knowingly and without lawful authority enters or remains within or on a building; or

(2) enters upon the land of another, after receiving, prior to such entry, notice from the owner or occupant that such entry is forbidden; or

(3) remains upon the land of another, after receiving notice from the owner or occupant to depart; or

(3.5) presents false documents or falsely represents his or her identity orally to the owner or occupant of a building or land in order to obtain permission from the owner or occupant to enter or remain in the building or on the land; commits a Class B misdemeanor.

For purposes of item (1) of this subsection, this Section shall not apply to being in a building which is open to the public while the building is open to the public during its normal hours of operation; nor shall this Section apply to a person who enters a public building under the reasonable belief that the building is still open to the public.

Sit in PROTEST - Burge torture victims still in prison

2011-07-18T07:59:00.000-05:00

Jon Burge is a former police officer, now in jail, who tortured his victims into false confession sending many to death row and long prison sentences. Retired Cook County States Attorney Richard Divine and former Mayor Richard Daley were Cook County States Attorneys who were involved with obtaining these confession after Burge finished with his victims. Present Cook County States Attorney Anita Alvarez was Devines hand-picked successor who was in charge of the office in the States Attorney's Office that was responsibile for investigating and prosecuting public corruption. She made sure to do NOTHING! There are reasons why no one in power wants more investigations or public hearings about these issues! Freed from death row Clements and others are still fighting to have other victims freed from prison. Authorities are doing NOTHING! Stand up, Speak Out, Fight Back!

Be willing to engage in civil disobedience and get arrested - United We Stand, Divided We Fall!

PRESS RELEASE/MONDAY, July 18, 2011
NEWS CONFERENCE DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE COURT HOUSE
Chicago Police Tortures Continue
Requested meeting with Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez
Sit in (inside Cook County State's Attorney Office)
2650 South California Ave.
Chicago, IL
2:00PM

On Monday, July 18, 2011, at 2:00PM, the Campaign to End Torture,
the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, Stanley Howard Committee, Jail
Jon Burge Coalition, and the Chicago Alliance against Racist and
Political Repression have called a rally, press conference and sit in
inside Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez office.

Much as 22 Jon Burge Torture victims sit behind prison walls
denied hearings on their claim of torture despite having overwhelming
evidence that they were beat and tortured, while their is much as 150
new cases of Chicago Police torture that have surface since the
dismissal of Burge from the Chicago Police Department. While it is
true that in 2003 Cook County Circuit Court chief judge Paul Biebel
assign most Burge related cases to either Illinois Attorney General
Lisa Madigan or Stuart A. Nudelman a retired judge to serve as Cook
County Special Prosecutor it is clear that their requested hearings on
their claim of torture has either been legally blocked by prosecutors
or delayed. It is the position of the prosecutors assign to these
cases that coerced tortured confessions be treated as "harmless error"
if additional evidence other then a confession exist in the cases. We
did agree strongly on the grounds that in most of these cases police
falsified evidence, coerced witnesses, made deals with criminals to
have them lie on suspects, and in some cases prosecutors enhance
evidence to make someone appear guilty.

Cook County prosecutors have left us without no other option other
then to mobilize a call of action. Cook County prosecutors under Anita
Alvarez have made it appear that they are willing to work with the
activists fighting to secure the hearings and release of these men,
but they have neglect to do anything to move forward with any agenda
to ensure that the men receive justice. We are frustrated and driven
to this point in which some are willing to be arrested to draw
attention to the injustice of their love one or friend.

Our demands are as follows:

1). A meeting with Cook County State's Attorney Anita or a ranking
member within her administration.

2). Acknowledgment from Alvarez that tortures did occur under
Burge and her position to ensure that this misconduct cease.

3). Hearings for all Chicago Police Torture Victims on their
claims of torture.

4). A meeting with Chicago Mayor Rahn Emanuel.

5). Compensation by the City of Chicago to all Chicago Police
Torture victims and psychological treatment for all torture victims.

6). Automatic termination of all Burge detectives and any and all
detectives that are under investigation for alleged torture of
criminal suspects from 1972 until 2001, be removed from the Cook
County State's Attorney office.

7). Stop Burge pension immediately until after the adjudication of
a law suit that has been filed against him to terminate payments.

For over ten years the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, as well
as many other organizations in the Chicago area have sought to have
former Mayor Richard Daley and former Cook County States Attorney
Richard Devine to take responsibility for there oversight of these
cases and to grant these men hearings on their claim of torture. They
ignored the outcry of the public wasting over 7 million dollars on a
special prosecutors report in 2006 in which no indictments could be
sought because the Statute of limitations expired on the act of
torture, and at least another 21.4 million dollars from 2009 until
2011 on cases in which they knew or should have known as lawyers that
the men were in fact innocent and should have never been prosecuted.

The Chicago Tribune release on Thursday that Federal officials are
looking into Burge detectives and some Assistant Cook County State's
Attorneys for their misconduct and the cover up of torture that
occurred inside some Chicago Police stations. Tax payers should not be
held responsible to pay for the intentional misconduct of city
officials nor should tax payers within the State of Illinois be held
accountable to pay for wrongful convictions, it is only right to hold
police and city officials responsible for their misdeeds that they
commit intentionally.

Sincerely:
Mark A. Clements,
Administrator
Jail Jon Burge Coalition
Campaign to End Torture
Campaign to End the Death Penalty

Wrongful Conviction Coordinator
Mark A. Clements, Suite #105
1325 S. Wabash Ave.
Chicago, IL 60605
312-939-2750-Office
847-276-1382-Cell
(mark@nodeathpenalty.org)

Reform corrupt family courts - stand up and protest August 12, 2011

2011-07-16T13:19:00.000-05:00

Stop abuse of our children by family courts, child protection services (DCFS in IL), guardian ad litums, child representatives appointed by the court, and judges. Title IV money is being used to destroy families and not in the best interest of the children!

http://cookcountyjudges.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/judge-david-e-haracz-rips-off-parents-enriches-child-representative-david-wessel-in-domestic-relations/

IL Medicaid Fraud Control Unit & State Police commit fraud on federal government to obtain millions

2011-07-01T11:39:00.001-05:00

A state Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) is authorized by federal law to investigate Medicaid Fraud and obtain funding from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

There are two different categories of states. In the first (44 states), the state's attorney general under the state's laws has jurisdiction and authority to investigate and prosecute Medicaid fraud. In the other group are states (six) where the state laws do NOT allow the state's attorney general (AG) to prosecute Medicaid fraud alone without approval of charges by another agency or permission from another agency. Illinois falls in the second category.

This is why, in Illinois, the IL MFCU is NOT in the IL AG's office, but is found in the Illinois Police Agency. IL AG staff, however, are assigned to the MFCU. Asst. AG John Fearon and Murphy are the attached IL AAGs who are knowingly violating federal law and aiding and abetting this felony fraud and retaliation against federal witnesses to corruption.

In Illinois Medicaid fraud can be investigated by the MFCU, but all prosecutions must be done by the county states attorney, in state court, or the U.S. attorney, in federal court. The Illinois AG may consult and with an invitation and good reason may participate in such prosecutions. Only under extreme circumstances, with approval of charges by the county state's attorney and approval by the court, may the IL AG prosecute Medicaid fraud, without the participation of the county state's attorney.

The state MFCUs apply for certification with the Office of Inspector General DHHS (OIG-DHHS) as a MFCU under federal law and for federal funding. Writer/Shelton requested through the federal Freedom of Information Act (Fed-FOIA) a copy of the IL MFCU's applications for recertification from the OIG-DHHS in 2006. Pres. Bush had actively discouraged government agencies from answering FOIA requests. However, Pres. Obama made an executive order requiring agencies follow the FOIA law. In 2010, Writer/Shelton, therefore, finally received these documents.

In them, the IL State Police Director states that in IL the AG may not prosecute Medicaid fraud and that they refer such prosecutions to the U.S. Attorney. Yet, the IL AG has indicted Linda Shelton, PhD, MD, Vernon Glass, MS (psychology), Naomi Jennings (a nurse who directed a counseling group) and Maisha Hamilton, PhD (psychologist) for Medicaid Fraud falsely claiming they did not provide services and billed for them anyways. Shelton was found not guilty at trial, but financially made bankrupt, illegally thrown in jail during the six-year prosecution four times for contempt of court because she kept telling the court that they had no jurisdiction since the indictment was fraudulent and the AG had no jurisdiction to even bring the charges, and that she had not received ANY evidence from the state that she was involved in Medicaid fraud. Two of the alleged contempts have already been overturned. Shelton was tortured and abused each time she was jailed.

Glass (Right Frame of Mind, PC) was bankrupted and died due to the stress before trial. He told Writer/Shelton, on his deathbed, impoverished by this wrongful prosecution, that he would stop taking his anti-organ rejection drugs because he just couldn't take it anymore after Judge Alonso yelled at him that the trial was going to proceed even though he was sick (yellow skin, bloated belly, awaiting a second liver transplant). Judge Alonso was a heartless creep who should be removed from the bench. Glass died two weeks later.

As a person is denied payment from Medicaid for services rendered during the time they are awaiting trial, this essentially bankrupted Glass and Shelton. Although the constitution guarantees that a person may not have property (money) removed without due process of law under the 5th and 14th amendments, obviously this civil right isn't worth the paper it is written on. Our constitution means nothing now! We have to fight to get it back.

Jennings (Youth Empire Services) was wrongfully convicted and is suffering greatly from health consequences due to the stress. Hamilton (Hamilton Wholistic Health Care) was wrongfully found guilty, spent more than a year in jail, is impoverished and unable to work, having suffered a civil death, as has Writer/Shelton. Jennings, Shelton, Glass, and Hamilton were accused of ghost billing. The federal law allows doctors to bill for services of their employees as if they did the services themselves (like a nurse drawing blood or giving a vaccine). Yet AG Lisa Madigan claims that if a psychologist or psychiatric counselor provides services in a doctor's office that this is illegal billing! All services were provided yet Madigan claimed that Jennings and Hamilton did not provide the services! IL AG Madigan has no authority to change federal law!

The IL MFCU application for recertification from 2001 that Writer/Shelton received in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, admits that the IL MFCU is federally funded and that the IL AG has NO JURISDICTION to prosecute Medicaid Fraud and that they refer all such cases to the U.S. Attorney or County State’s Attorney, can be seen here. You can read the application, the indictment against Writer/Shelton and see the forged signatures on documents allowing billing Medicaid under Writer/Shelton's name (not Writer/Shelton's signature and therefore proof of ID theft and proof they knew there was no probable cause to charge Writer/Shelton – Writer/Shelton got these documents from AG Madigan in discovery before trial) here.

This act of telling the OIG-DHHS in writing that the IL AG cannot prosecute Medicaid fraud and then obtaining millions to prosecute Medicaid fraud is an act of fraud upon the federal government, a felony, and proves the state of IL and the IL-MFCU with the attached employees of the IL AG are criminals.

Of note: The IL-MFCU and IL AG ONLY ILLEGALLY PROSECUTE WITHOUT ASSISTANCE OR CONSENT FROM THE COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY OR U.S. ATTORNEY alleged Medicaid fraud if the alleged offender is a whistle blower with evidence against corrupt officials, judges, or police. The fact that the IL AG ONLY prosecutes illegally whistle blowers like Jennings, Hamilton, Shelton, and Glass and refers legitimate prosecutions for Medicaid fraud to the U.S. Attorney,Writer/Shelton believes is proof that this is a felony conspiracy to violate rights under color of law; an act of retaliation against whistle blowers. This is a violation of the federal law, 18 U.S.C. sections 241 and 242 (felony violation of civil rights under color of law and felony conspiracy to violate such rights).

In Hamilton's case, we have proof that the MFCU investigator, William Reibel forged the name of a physician, in Hamilton's handwriting on many bills submitted for psychological services to Medicaid. He cut out handwriting examplars and pasted them on the bills then faxed them to t he IL crime lab. Hamilton was forced to sign a doctor's name 40 times on a sheet of paper for the investigation.

In Shelton's and Glass' case, a year before she worked at Right Frame of Mind, PC, after Glass had given Louise Moore of DataMedical Works (a billing company) Shelton's Medicaid provider number so Moore could register Shelton's new work address with the state for billing purposes in anticipation of Shelton working for the group practice, two women working for Glass and without Glass' knowledge made fake bills and submitted them to Moore, who without Shelton's consent forged Shelton's name on electronic data transfer agreements with state billing agencies and on a power of attorney form. This allowed Moore to send in bills using Shelton's Medicaid provider number as the service provider without Shelton's or Glass' knowledge or consent.

All fake bills using Shelton's ID number in an act of ID theft, were submitted while Shelton was in neurosurgery or recovering from such for spinal stenosis and spinal cord injury in July 2000 and for the next year! The IL AG and IL MFCU were grossly incompetent and malicious in their prosecution of Shelton. Judge Pantle and Judge Alonso were grossly malicious and incompetent in allowing this illegal prosecution in which the IL AG had no jurisdiction to bring the charges and therefore the court had no jurisdiction to try the case.

The real perpetrators of this fraud, Itadel Shalabi and Nareman Taha, along with Louise Moore of Data MedicalWorks have never been arrested or charged.

The FBI, US. Attorney, IL State Police are fully aware of all this information. They have done NOTHING to overturn the convictions of Jennings and Hamilton and to hold the IL MFCU, Inv. William Reibel, AG Madigan, Louise Moore, Itadel Shalabi or Nareman Taha accountable. Obviously the administration is NOT serious about Medicaid fraud and is allowing fraudulent prosecutions for use as retaliation against whistle blowers who have evidence of corruption among President Obama's friends. This is a disgrace and proves we live in a totalitarian police state.

Destroying the agencies: Hamilton Wholistic Healthcare, Right Frame of Mind, PC, and Youth Empire Services, severely impacted the provision of mental health care to Medicaid recipients on the South and Southwest side of the Chicago area. Lack of mental health care increases family break-ups, increases reliance on government assistance, increases crime, and hurts the long-term mental health of children. It is disgusting that the IL AG, Judges Pantle and Alonso, and so many other government officials and police are and have conspired to destroy mental health service providers and their clients, perhaps just to save the state money and decrease the cost to the state of mental health services. This is penny wise and pound foolish. Eventually they will be exposed and huge damages will be owed those that suffered from this corruption.

Please protest this criminal conduct by writing to:
___________________________

Assistant U.S. Attorney in charge
Task Force on Medicaid Fraud
United States Attorney’s Office
Federal Building
219 South Dearborn Street, Fifth Floor
Chicago, IL 60604
_____________________________

Assistant Attorney General

Civil Rights Division
Criminal Section
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest
Washington, DC 20530

____________________________

Senator Richard Durbin

711 Hart Senate Building

Washington DC 20510

202.224.2152 phone

202.228.0400 fax

_________________________

Senator Mark Kirk

524 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC, 20510

202.224.2854 phone
202.228.4611 fax

___________________________

Write YOUR representative - this is my representative:

Representative Daniel Lipinski

3^rd Congressional District IL

1717 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515

202.225.5701 phone
866.822.5701 phone
202.225.1012 fax

_______________________________

State ignores mental health care, increases prison and jail costs - penny-wise, pound-foolish

2011-06-10T10:40:00.000-05:00

Treatment of the mentally ill is one of the most cost-effective strategies for society as it increases productivity of citizens (income taxes for government); reduces public assistance by preserving family unity as well as keeping the breadearner employed; reduces crime as much shoplifting, drug-addiction, domestic violence, theft, and other violent crimes and assaults are related to mental illness, as well as vastly reduces justice system expenses to the courts, prosecutors, public defenders, jail, prisons, parole agents, etc. There are more mentally ill persons being treated in jails and prisons than in all the mental health facilities in the country combined.

It is far less expensive to society to treat mental illness including drug-addiction up front as an outpatient than at the back end with payments to police, courts, prosecutors, public defenders, jails, prisons, parole agents, treatment for medical care caused by neglect, public aid for family members neglected by the mentally ill person, etc. Would you rather pay $40,000 a year to incarcerate someone PLUS all the above collateral costs or $10,000 per year to provide excellent mental health care as an outpatient? The answer is simple: A BIG YES! Our politicians are simply stupid.

This article says it all and provides links: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/does-cutting-mental-health-care-increase-the-prison-population/2011/06/02/AGzNdVHH_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein

Sign Petition for U.S. Attorney Eric Holder to Investigate Corrupt Officials - Help Free Melongo

2011-02-15T13:20:00.008-06:00

Please read and sign petition detailing how the Illinois Attorney General and Cook County States Attorney are falsely prosecuting a whistle blower with charges, not backed up by probable cause, in what appears to be an act of cover-up of corruption and/or incompetence of public officials, which led to them aiding a phony foundation in obtaining millions from government.

Encourage the Attorney General to investigate this case and help free an innocent whistle blower.

Sign this petition - http://www.change.org/petitions/free-whistle-blower-exposed-8-million-fraud-by-phony-foundation-salf-il-officials-retaliate

Cook County Court Clerk records to State Police criminal database grossly erroneous

2011-02-07T03:02:00.005-06:00

The job of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Dorothy Brown, is primarily to keep and transmit accurate court records or disposition of cases. She is required by law to notify the Illinois State Police criminal database of disposition of cases and orders such as warrants related to cases. Analysis comparing court orders, clerk's records, and the Illinois criminal database (rap sheets) reveals that there is a 37% error rate making the rap sheets useless.

Rap sheets are used by judges to set bail and decide sentences (aggravating factor). Their use, in view of the error rate should be banned until the records are corrected and Dorothy Brown should be impeached for failure to perform her main duty.

Please note the cases were dismissed by the court in both cases described at the bottom of the following article. Both cases were brought against defendant without probable cause or in an act of police corruption and false arrest, in retaliation against a whistle blower - who talks about police corruption (false arrest, excessive force, defamation of defendants, perjury by police).

For details read here.

Ald. Ed Burke - the most powerful man in Illinois

2010-04-17T12:43:00.005-05:00

Chicago Alderman Ed Burke is likely the most powerful man in Illinois (except for those quietly sitting behind him like James Thompson) and I believe the most corrupt, except for perhaps Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives Michael Madigan.

His wife Illinois Supreme Court Justice Ann Burke is likely the most powerful and corrupt woman in Illinois, except for perhaps Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.

Does anyone notice that Illinois is run like a kingdom with inherited lordships. Or is it just me?

http://biggovernment.com/jpeterson/2010/04/08/alderman-edward-burke-top-machine-boss-of-obamas-chicago-where-barack-learned-chicago-style-politics-part-1/

http://biggovernment.com/jpeterson/2010/04/12/alderman-edward-burke-top-machine-boss-of-obamas-chicago-where-barack-learned-chicago-style-politics/

http://biggovernment.com/jpeterson/2010/04/15/alderman-edward-burke-part-iii-top-machine-boss-of-obamas-chicago/

For information about Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan see:

http://www.examiner.com/x-24257-Cook-County-Government-Examiner~y2010m1d21-Costly-scheme-by-Illinois-Attorney-General-to-deny-mental-health-care-to-Medicaid-patients

http://cookcountyjudges.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/corrupt-judges-jorge-alonso-and-kathleen-pantle-kill-innocent-defendant-vernon-glass/

Corruption in Illinois:
See http://drlindashelton.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/be-a-team-player-corruption-and-patronage-in-illinois/

http://drlindashelton.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/mental-health-care-denied-poor-in-illinois/

Illinois for too long has been under the control of the Kingdom of former Gov. James AKA Big Jim (Prince John) Thompson and his Lords:

Chicago Mayor Richard M. and Cook Co. Commissioner John Daley (sons of former Mayor Richard J.) - their brother William (Bill) Daley also has great influence as a former member of Cliniton's cabinet and midwest director of Chase bank;

County Board Pres. John Stroger Jr. (son of former County Board Pres. John Stroger);

House Speaker Michael and his daughter Attorney General Lisa Madigan (one of the least qualified state officials in Illinois history);

Alderman Ed (buddy of Fast Ed[dy] now convict Vrdolyak) and his wife Illinois Supreme Court Justice Ann Burke;

Former Sheriff (of Nottingham) Michael Sheahan and his lap puppy now Sheriff Thomas Dart; and

Former Cook County State’s Attorney Richard (Gisbourne) Divine now Cook County States Attorney Anita Alvarez;

As well as other Lords such as former Sen. President Emil Jones and now his son Emil Jones Jr.

and the Beavers, the Lipinskis, the Steeles, etc. etc. etc.

Political office is inherited in Illinois; elected by political patronage; paid for by bribery as 10% of all contracts SHALL be donated (kicked-back) to political funds such as “Friends of Madigan” and “Friends of Blagojevic”, and decided in closed back room “deals” (bribes, pay-to-play, tit-for-tat, nothing to do with competency or experience, etc.).

Computer professional fraudulently prosecuted in political/criminal cover-up

2009-12-20T16:15:00.008-06:00

Annabel Melongo is a computer professional, born in Cameroon, who has lived and worked in the Chicago area since 2003. From December - April, 2006, she worked for the Save-A-Life Foundation (SALF), a nonprofit whose charter was to teach first aid to children in public schools. Founded in 1993, SALF was a member organization of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and over the years received close to $9 million in federal and state funding. Since November 2006, SALF has been the subject of about a dozen news reports around the country that raise serious concerns about the organization's claims, activities, and finances.

Melongo discovered extensive fraud in applications for government grants and fraud about the founder/president's credentials. Then, in October 2006, Melongo was fraudulently charged with destroying SALF's files, among them financial records (that prove SALF has committed fraud), likely to cover-up the misconduct of SALF's founder and president. Those charges were entirely based on claims made by SALF's founder/president Carol J. Spizzirri of Grayslake, IL. According to multiple news reports, Spizzirri has a history of serious fabrications, including the false claim that she is a Registered Nurse; that she worked as a renal transplant nurse in a Milwaukee hospital; and that she earned a BSN degree from a Wisconsin college whose name she misspelled on her CV. According to a recent sworn affidavit, in 1985 a Milwaukee court-ordered psychologist, Dr. Burton S. Silberglitt, diagnosed Spizzirri as "paranoid schizophrenic."Nevertheless, based on Spizzirri's word, the offices of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and the Cook County Prosecutor have indicted Melongo.

Facts indicate they have indicted Melongo in order to cover-up SALF's longstanding relationships with powerful political cronies and funders. These include Attorney General Madigan and her father Mike Madigan, longtime IL House of Representatives Speaker of the House and Chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois.

After more than three years of such legal harassment, the following web site was launched in an attempt to bring public attention to this abuse of the legal system. Illinois taxpayers may wonder why the state's top law enforcement officer and Cook County Prosecutor Anita Alvarez are expending so much time and public money to prosecute this trumped-up case against Melongo rather than investigate what happened to the millions of tax dollars that went to the Save-A-Life Foundation. This site presents documented information that may help answer that and related questions. If you have more questions, comments, or information, please don't hesitate to send Melongo an email at concernedillinoiscitizen@yahoo.fr

Actors:
Lisa Madigan: Illinois Attorney General
Diane L. Saltoun: Illinois Inspector General
Patricia A. McConnell: Director Of Investigations, Office Of The Inspector General
Anita Alvarez: Cook County State Attorney
Dick Devine: Former Cook County State Attorney
Judge Paul Biebel: Cook County Chief Judge
Joseph Kazmierski: Cook County Supervising Judge
John J. Fleming: Cook County Judge
Mary M. Brosnahan: Cook County Judge
Prosecutor Lynn Palac: Special prosecutor, Rolling Meadows
Prosecutor Kyle French: Prosecutor Attorney General office, High Crime Tech Unit
Prosecutor Joseph Podlasek: Cook County special prosecutor
Prosecutor Julie Gunningle: Cook County Prosecutor
Prosecutor Scott Biestek : State attorney, Rolling Meadows
Pamela Taylor: Cook County Court Reporter Office, Assistant Administrator
Laurel Laudien: Cook County Court Reporter
Commander Daniel Schultze: Schiller Park Police
Detective Martin: Police detective, Schiller Park.
Shahna G. Monge: Forensic Examiner, Attorney General Office
Carol Spizzirri: CEO And Founder Save A Life Foundation
Annemarie Tabor: Court Reporter, Rolling Meadows
Annabel Melongo: defendant. Software Engineer. Computer Networking.

The story about fraudulent prosecution of Annabel Melongo

Sec. of Education Arne Duncan's involvement with director of SALF Spirrizza on Daily Kos web site

Mental Healthcare denied needy in Illinois

2009-11-27T10:46:00.002-06:00

Corrupt Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan prevents Medicaid patients from obtaining mental health care http://tr.im/FWJv

Cook County Board President Candidate profiles & their position on issues:

2009-10-24T12:26:00.006-05:00

Dr. Shelton has written extensive profiles with links to other sites and description of the candidates position on issues on her web page at Examiner.com, one of the fastest growing Internet news sites. Read the profiles and educate yourself about the candidates.

Dr. Linda Shelton is an independent contractor for Examiner.com and publishes articles as their "Cook County Government Examiner."

See: http://www.examiner.com/x-24257-Cook-County-Government-Examiner

Dr Shelton Hired as Internet News Reporter

2009-09-30T07:11:00.005-05:00

I, Dr. Linda Shelton, was hired last week as the new "Cook County Government Examiner [reporter]" for the Internet news agency Examiner.com owned by multibillionaire Anschultz who bought the Hearst media empire.

My first two articles highlight two major cases of fraud by Illinois Government officials, that effect huge numbers of persons and violate multiple federal laws including, but not exclusively, theft of honest services, wire fraud, official misconduct, felony violations of civil rights, falsification of records by officials and police, and criminal conduct of IL AG Lisa Madigan.

Dr. Shelton is preparing articles about the corrupt Cook County Courts and its judges, as well as felony civil rights violations and fraud in CCDOC and IDOC. A network of whistle blowers who have evidence of corruption in many departments in Illinois is assisting Dr. Shelton in her writings. These include DCFS, IDFPR, the State Police, the Attorney General's office, Cook County Sheriff's office, former Governor's office, Mayor's office, Illinois Medicaid, and other departments.

FBI where are you?

See:

http://www.examiner.com/x-24257-Cook-County-Government-Examiner~y2009m9d29-Cook-County-IDOC-Parole-Ofc-falsifies-records-fails-to-supervise-issues-fraudulent-arrest-warrant

http://www.examiner.com/x-24257-Cook-County-Government-Examiner~y2009m9d28-Feds-supports-immunity-for-prosecutors-who-fabricate-evidence-like-Attorney-General-Lisa-Madigan

Sheriff Inv. Sofus Falsely Arrests Dr Shelton Twice Due to Her Incompetent Investigations - Retaliation Against Whistle Blower

2009-09-04T23:03:00.005-05:00

by Dr. Linda Shelton:

DOCUMENTATION OF CORRUPTION, FRAUD, WASTE, AND INCOMPETENCE IN THE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT OF COOK COUNTY:

Cook County Sheriff Police Investigator Cynthia B. Sofus, earning a salary of $76, 450 per year, is a glaring example of incompetence, arrogance, and vulgarity among the Cook County Sheriff’s staff. She works for the Criminal Intelligence, Gangs & Crimes Unit of the Sheriff’s Police at the Cook County Department of Corrections. She has what is known as a “potty mouth”. The following gives a detailed description as to how, in two cases against me which are false arrests and malicious prosecutions, she was grossly negligent in her investigation and has ended up suborning perjury (supporting perjury of the state’s witnesses, Sgt. Anthony Salemi and Lt. Prescott, among others).

Case 1:
On May 16, 2005, Cook County Correctional Sgt. Anthony Salemi came to my cell at the women’s medical unit of the Cermak infirmary at Cook County Jail. I was housed alone in a single cell. I was in the medical unit due to multiple medical problems including: 1) a congenital & acquired spinal cord injury causing a weak right side (right hemiparesis) where I cannot raise my right leg above my waist; 2) heart arrythmias; 3) Hemiplegic migraine causing frequent dizziness, unsteadiness, and headache, plus some intermittent neurologic deficits (migraines with symptoms of stroke); 4) severe intermittent asthma with vocal cord dysfunction, episodes of unconsciousness due to hypoxia, and severe sensitivity to chemicals such as cleaning solutions, perfumes, and the formaldehyde found in cigarettes (ignorant poorly-trained paramedics, nurses, and physicians, such as they have at the CCDOC, confuse my symptoms with malingering because I don’t always wheeze but rather develop a “silent chest syndrome” with poor air movement and whistling gurgling sound when inhaling, just before I go unconscious), and 5) malignant neurocardiogenic syncope – a severe form of nerve mediated fainting that in me is caused partly by the spinal cord injury destroying nerves needed to regulate respiration and heart beat, but also due to congenital disorder of contraction or twitchiness of the blood vessels necessary to keep a person from fainting when they stand up (the blood vessels in the lower body must contract when standing or the blood flows to the lower body and there is insufficient blood for the brain). This is a complex and interacting set of medical problems, which for treatment, require a certain mix of medications, a high salt diet, and rapid response to deterioration of medical condition.

As the jail staff had: 1) violated my constitutional rights to have pen & paper to write grievances and write court papers to appeal my unlawful incarceration, thus illegally and unconstitutionally denying me ”access to the courts” (I was later aquitted of the fraudlent charge for which I was incarcerated); 2) denied me necessary medication and high salt diet (the correctional staff said salt was contraband and everyone had to eat a low salt diet, despite the doctor’s orders) to prevent fainting on standing and weakness or other serious symptoms; and 3) denied me my statutory right to call non-collect when I was incarcerated to arrange for the care of my disabled father (when I came home a month later he was dehydrated, weak, mildly confused, and clearly had needed more assistance) – the social worker told me that she was instructed NOT to help me arrange for the care of my father, I protested with, from May 11, 2005 on, a continuous dry hunger strike.

I ate and drank NOTHING. Every three to five days I would take 2-3 ounces of water to lessen the likelihood of a quick death. This resulted in a 1 and 1/2 lb weight loss per day, and by May 16, 2009, I had nearly passed out in the shower and required the use of a wheelchair, although I had been using a cane. I no longer could stand for more than a few seconds without passing out. I was moderately dehydrated, which causes weakness and fainting when standing. Obviously, this made my congenitally weak arms & shoulders, and weak leg, even weaker. I was physically unable to batter anyone, especially a strong male who was taller and 50 lbs heavier than I was, like Sgt. Salemi.

The wheelchair had most of the tread missing from the right wheel. Therefore, when I pushed it, if there was a divit in the floor or a slightly bumpy area on the floor, I couldn’t move it over this tiny obstacle as the right wheel would not catch the floor and would spin freely. The right wheel also had one of the three spacers missing from the hand rail on the wheel and this made the wheel a bit cockeyed and caused the long screw to constantly rattle and move into the wheel obstructing movement of the wheel if I used the hand rail instead of someone pushing me. The armrests were missing. The wheel was extra wide and meant for a very obese person – I am thin. This meant you have to spread your arms wider, this produces less torc, and the person in the chair has more difficulty moving it than an ordinary wheelchair.

My medical condition is that I have congenital weakness of the hands, arms, and shoulders due to the spinal cord injury resulting from a congenital defect in my spine. I kept the left foot rest folded up and put my weak right leg on the right foot rest. I used my fairly good left leg to propel the wheelchair backwards (it is hard to use a leg to move the wheelchair fast forwards – try it!) as my arms were a little too weak to get the wheelchair start moving from a stop and too weak to go very far. The officers are required NOT to push inmates in wheelchairs, but Officer Boutte, who does transport for female inmates, always pushed my wheelchair, because it was obvious I was too weak to push it very far. He was illegally not allowed to testify on my behalf.
Unit officers open cell doors for meal and time in the common room, a large hall with tables and chairs, and inmates can open the cell doors and leave their cells when the doors are unlocked part of the day.

I had great difficulty opening the cell door and maneuvering my wheelchair out of the cell. I had to do this backwards pushing with my left leg and then wedging my arms in the door jams so as to get more force to help my leg push the door open with the back of the wheelchair. At least half the time, a nurse or inmate would take pity and help me open the door. Only one officer actually helped me open the door. The others were sadistic. I often didn’t bother, because I wasn’t eating anyways, and more and more stayed in bed, too weak to do anything. My pulse was consistently rapid and I was consistently short of breath if I tried to stand up or move around. I suffered at least 4 asthma attackes in the few days before this incident due to exposure to inmates who were smoking or exposure to floor cleaning solutions. The medical staff didn’t care to protect me from this. This further weakened me. My attorney was illegally not allowed to present the paramedic reports about these asthma attacks to the jury.

Sgt. Anthony Salemi came to my cell on May 16, 2005, sent the female unit officer away, and cracked the door open to talk with me. I was next to the cell door as I had banged on it trying to get the unit officer to call a sergeant or lieutenant so I could make verbal complaints again, that they continually ignored. The department rules require that a male officer may NOT enter a female inmate’s cell without a witness, except in a life-threatening emergency. There was no life-threatening emergency.

Sgt. Anthony Salemi told me “I’m going to make a case so you don’t get out.” He then opened the door enough to lunge in and grab my neck with his left hand. Sgt. Hernandez and several officers later told me to “get that ***” in court because he “only attacks women”. The door shut behind him.

The force of his attack made the wheelchair propel backwards. He stumbled and slid down a bit, skinning his shins on the footrests, more so on the left as the left footrest was folded up and sticking out less. The wheelchair spun a little to the right. We were now in the middle of the cell nearer the bed. I curled up in a ball somewhat, leaning to my right side so I could wedge my left shoeless foot against his chest to try to pry him off. His harry arms were very strong, like tree trunks and my arms were too weak in my feeble attempts to pull his hand off of my neck. He got mad when I pushed his chest with my foot and let go. Then he rapidly grabbed my left arm with his left hand, while he yanked the wheelchair out from under me, simultaneously flipping me off the wheelchair against the hospital bed railing that was down.

I landed against the bed and on my right knee and hands. My right middle toe got caught in the right foot rest and became severely contused. It later swelled up like a grape, black and blue. I was stunned and terrified. I didn’t know what to expect next and feared for my life. The wheelchair had two posts on either side of the seat where the missing armrests insert. They were slightly higher than the seat and hard metal. As he pulled the wheelchair out from under me, they raked my thighs and caused huge contusions – testimony in court described “bruises on (L) – Upper posterior thigh (4” X 2”), (R) Inner upper thigh (6 ½ “ X 3 ½ “) (R) Third metatarsal toe.” Officer unit log notes describe a bruise on my right knee. No one carefully examined me, so they didn’t write down the bruises on my left arm in the shape of fingers. The doctor, days later, ordered multiple X-rays due to the extent of contusions to rule out fractures. He however did not examine me in any way other than to visualize a few bruises. He was not called to testify.

I have post-traumatic-stress disorder because I was previously attacked by men. This attack by Sgt. Salemi put me into a flashback and was crying and screaming hysterical to “stay away from me”, as well as cowering after this attack. I let no one touch me or view my injuries for several shifts and simply cowered in the bed and was silent.

Sgt. Salemi falsified his records and said from a dead stop in the middle of the cell, I “surprised him” while he was looking at me, accelerated the wheelchair and rammed it into him, skinning his shins and making him fall. He said the cell door stayed open on its own but no one saw him fall out of the door or in any way (the cell doors have heavy hydraulic door closing mechanisms that make them close automatically so this is a lie).

He said he was too surprised to protect himself! He said he then got up and I kicked him while sitting in the wheelchair in the chest with my RIGHT leg (sofus quotes him in her report) so hard that he was pushed against the “closed” door. He does not explain how the door remained open on its own and then mysteriously closed so he could be kicked against it. In his testimony at trial, Sgt. Salemi stated that I raised both legs and kicked him in the chest, while the wheelchair was rolling backwards with such force he was thrown against the door several feet away!

In his incident report and Inv. Sofus’ investigative report they state that I was at the cell door stating “I’m coming out” and as he opened the door, while facing forward, rammed Salemi and kicked him, but somehow, none of the inmates eating dinner in the hall, the officer or others saw me, except nurse Ogali, who stated that Salemi’s body was blocking the door way with him standing in the threshold and the door against his shoulder, and she only saw me move my wheelchair towards the door and did not see me ram or kick him, but did see him bend down after entering the cell and removing the wheelchair. She said she couldn’t see everything because the cell door window starts 4 feet up off the floor and she was sitting in the nurse’s station 15 feet away kitty corner to the cell.

Inv. Sofus came to my cell on the next day, like a bull in a China shop in a very butch manner. She asked bruskly if I would answer her questions. She was very confrontational in her demeanor, and obviously not willing to listen to facts. I was laying in bed and so traumatized that I said leave me alone, I won’t talk to anyone without an attorney.

Inv. Sofus failed in her duty to preserve the “weapon”, the broken wheelchair, that would have exonerated me. Judge Kazmierski through judicial misconduct failed to dismiss the case due to this fact, which is required by previous United States Supreme Court decisions holding that when the State destroys or fails to preserve a weapon in a crime the case must be dismissed.
She failed to ask anyone about my medical conditions and didn’t mention them at all in her grand jury testimony or her report. Judge Kazmierski illegally prevented my attorney from essentially asking any questions to point out all the discrepencies and negligent investigation to the jury. Therefore, he was illegally prohibited by the court from impeaching Sgt. Salemi, the only witness against me (who presented only perjured statements), by using the testimony and reports of Inv. Sofus.

Sgt. Salemi also committed perjury in stating that all wheelchairs in the jail are in perfect working condition. Another officer at sentencing (illegally not allowed to testify at trial) stated “its a jail!” and that “the cell doors close automatically.” He also testified that most of the wheelchairs are in poor condition and broken. Inv. Sofus would have noted this if she wasn’t so negligent, careless, arrogant, and incompetent. She failed to write in her report important details and observations. She appears to do a selective investigation, only including details credible or not, verified or not, that support the allegation. She carefully hides or avoids writing down any exculpatory evidence that proves the person innocent. A real Gestapo type!

A few days later, a nurse documented my extensive contusions. Inv. Sofus failed to follow-up to see if I was injured. She and all the jail staff refused to take photos of these injuries, but took photos of Sgt. Salemi’s shin which revealed several inch long abrasions running up them. If he was rammed, he would have had one linear horizontal mark or bruise on his lower leg near his ankle on the left and one short mark on his right shin corresponding to the wheelchair folded up footrest. There would be no long linear abrasions running up his shins, which are consistent with my story that he stumbled and slid down against the foot rests, not with his story.

As Sgt. Salemi was the ONLY witness with testimony against me and his testimony was not believable as not compatible with the photos/injuries of his shins or my injuries, as well as his testimony was contradictory in itself and with the statements of others, the State actually presented not one shred of credible evidence against me.

The conviction was due to extreme prosecutorial and judicial misconduct that mislead the jury, mis-stated the facts to the jury in closing and ignored the evidence. See my appeal: http://www.scribd.com/doc/16301520/Appeal-of-Wrongful-Conviction-Battery-Shelton-Illinois-2009

What kind of an investigator is so negligent to not even identify the medical condition of a person on a medical unit when investigating a crime that requires physical force and strength to accomplish, and who fails to preserve the alleged weapon (the broken wheelchair), as well as fails to note the discrepencies in the story by Sgt. Salemi that contradict the notes of the officers in the unit logs about the broken wheelchair as well as other officer’s testimony (only allowed after trial at sentencing hearing) that the cell doors cannot stay open on their own??

Case 2:
Maisha Hamilton Bennett, Ph.d, a psychologist was wrongfully incarcerated after a wrongful conviction at the Cook County Jail in July and August 2009 on fraudulent charges brought by the corrupt IL Attorney General Lisa Madigan. See: http://drlindashelton.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/mental-health-care-denied-poor-in-illinois/ and http://drlindashelton.wordpress.com/free-dr-maisha-hamilton-bennett/

She was being transferred and called me to come pick up five bags of legal documents so they would not be thrown out. I had gone to visit her in mid-July and after my visit, as I was waiting for some papers Dr. Hamilton Bennett wan’t me to take home that she had arranged to have the social worker give to me, Sgt. Alex Cruz assaulted me by yelling at me that I had to leave or I would be arrested because former inmates cannot visit during the year after release (It has been more than one year since my release – this “rule” also is not posted anywhere and inmates when released are not informed about this “rule” – I’m not even sure this rule is legal). I left because I didn’t feel like arguing and being wrongfully arrested that day.

On or about August 26th, Jail Social Worker Richardson called me and told me to come pick up Dr. Hamilton Bennett’s papers. Due to the fact I have several suits againt the Sheriff and his corrupt staff, I called the Jail’s Executive office on or about August 27th and asked the Jail ExecutiveDirector’s Assistant if I could have an escort so I would not be harassed. She refused to connect me with any higher officer and said I wouldn’t be harassed or falsely arrested. I called the Jail’s legal office and they said they couldn’t do anything as they don’t arrange escorts. I called Sheriff’s Dart’s Office at the Daley Center and his Executive Assistant also said they do not arrange escorts into the jail, no one would harass me, and that there was not problem with me picking up documents for an inmate being transferrred out.

I came on Friday August 28 and picked up three bags of documents and said I would come back for the rest.

I returned on Monday, August 31, 2009 to pick up the rest of the documents. At the entrance, I was held up unusually long while Sgt. Arthur at the gate called Sgt. Cruz. I was then let in. I told them that I had the OK from the executive and Sheriff’s office and they promised me no one would bother me. They refused to call the executive office of the jail or the Sheriff’s office.
Officer Levy was at the desk in the visitor area. She is one of the guards I am suing for holding me down and kicking me with their boots. See: http://www.scribd.com/doc/19434501/Shelton-1983-Against-Cook-County-Sheriff-Illegal-Administration-Psychotropic-Drugs-and-Battery-2009

I told Deputy Levy that why I was there and that Dr. Hamilton Bennett told me to ask for Kim Laster who was in charge of property in the Annex of Division 3. She had arranged with her to transfer the last two bags of documents to me. Deputy Levy instead called a female Lt. Prescott who came out to talk to me. Lt. Prescott was immediately hostile, verbally aggressive, and wouldn’t listen. She went out and came back and said I had to leave that I couldn’t pick up any property. Social Worker Vaughn said Ms. Richardson wasn’t there and nobody can ever pick up property – a lie. I told them I had already picked up three bags and had the OK from their superiors, as well as that I was not an inmate there during the last year.

Lt. Prescott called the guardhouse and they sent over a tall obese African-American officer Delgado, who was very polite, and female African-American officer Gonzalez. They tried to push me to the gate. I let go of my walker and sat on the ground and told them I had permission to pick up property, the property was available, I was to talk to Ofc. Laster, Ms. Richardson had called me to come there, and that I had already picked up three bags and was there for the last two. I told them they were illegaly harassing me, disobeying their superiors, and committing a federal felony as I am a federal witness against many officers at the jail , have federal suits against them, so this could be construed as an illegal penalty on the exercise of my and Dr. Hamilton Bennetts civil rights, as well as a felony civil rights violation including harssing a federal witness.

Ofc. Delgado, said if we went to the front gate, they were in a different department and they would call the executive office and solve the problem so I walked there with them using my walker. I however was getting a bit overheated from their assault on me and had been suffering from a viral infection for several days.

At the front gate guard house, Sgt. Arthur refused to call the executive office or solve the problem and insisted that I leave saying that Lt. Prescott had informed him that I could not pick up any property. I told him he was wrong and all the crimes he was committing. Sgt. Arthur then had the deputies handcuff me and said they were arresting me for “vagrancy”. He called the Sheriff’s police and Inv. Sofus, Sgt. Robert J. Fitzgerald and Correctional Officer Sgt. James P. Aurenz responded.

Before they arrived I began to feel poorly from being overheated and this triggered my fainting and heart arrythmia. The deputies wouldn’t let me take off my suit jacket and lie down on the bench. So, just as I felt I was going to pass out, I lay down on the floor. When Inv. Sofus and her buddies arrive I tried to abort passing out by using the bathroom and putting cold water on myself. Sgt. Aurenz was kind enough to let me do this. Then when I came back to the bench and lied down, now without handcuffs, I briefly lost consciousness. I may have had brief episodes of irregular breathing. I don’t think I was responsive. An ambulance was called.

When the ambulance arrived I was coming out of the confusion after waking up. In the ambulance I told them I wanted to sign a release and go get the property I was there to get. I was still very short of breath and had difficulty standing so I crawled toward the guard house.
Then I became more alert and recognized Inv. Sofus as the person who had suborned perjury and collaberated with the misconduct of Sgt. Salemi. I went into a brief flashback reliving in a dream like state the assault on me by Sgt. Salemi. Then I tried to get into the guard house to go get the two bags.

At this point Inv. Sofus arrested me for “disorderly conduct.”

It is illegal to harass a federal witness.
It is illegal to deny me entrance to the jail without cause.
It is illegal to deny Dr. Hamilton Bennett the right to have someone pick up her property when she is being transferred.
It is illegal for an officer to commit a crime and arrest someone without probable cause in order to cover-up for their misconduct.
An arrest must have a good faith probable cause. There was none.

After being arrested Sgt. Aurenz let me explain to him what happened. His response was that they have no authority because the “chain of command” prevents it to call the executive office or Ofc. Laster or Social Worker Richardson to check out the story.

The law says that theydo have a DUTY to investigate exculpatory evidence brought to them after an arrest, they do have a DUTY to drop charges when they discover the arrest was without probable cause, and they do have a DUTY to protect a federal witness against assault.

This is a grotesque civil rights violaton and may rise to the level of a felony civil rights violation under federal law.

The due process clause of the constitution secures the individual from arbitrary exercise of the powers of the government and prevents governmental power from being used for purposes of oppression.

Was this arrest arbitrary? – YES
Was this arrest used for purposes of oppressions? – YES
Was this a scheme to deny civil rights? – YES
Does this shock the conscience? – YES

Its time for Inv. Sofus, Sgt. Salemi, and the other puppets of corruption who are arrogant, power-grabbing, incompetent, violate law with impunity, and commit perjury with impunity to be arrested, lose their jobs, and brought before the federal court.

Please write the following persons and urge them to act quickly to stop this totalitarian police state called Cook County:

Asst. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, Office of U.S. Attorney, 219 S. Dearborn, 5th Floor, Chicago IL, 60604

Special Agent Robert Grant, Chicago FBI, 2111 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago IL, 60608

Anita Alvarez, Cook County States Attorney, 50 West Washington, Rm 500, Chicago IL, 60602

President Barrack Obama, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ae. NW, Washington DC, 20500

Senator Richard Durbin

Senator Roland Burris

Your representative

The press in your community and nationally.

If you’re in Chicago, come to my trials ( I have been arrested 5 times illegally in 2009 for the above type nonsense without probable cause). Watch my blog: http://drlindashelton.wordpress.com/ for court dates. If possible donate to my legal fund. I am now indigent, as a result of fighting for our Constitutional rights and catastrophic medical problems. Donations can be sent to:

Shelton Legal Fund, C/O Albukerk & Associates, 3025 W. 26th St. 2nd floor, Chicago IL, 60625

PLEASE, MOST IMPORTANTLY, HELP RAISE GRASS ROOTS AWARENESS OF THE ATROCIOUS VIOLATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS IN COOK COUNTY AND ILLINOIS THAT I HAVE DOCUMENTED ON THIS AND MY OTHER WEB SITES THAT YOU CAN ACCESS THROUGH LINKS ON THIS WEB SITE. COPY MY WRITINGS AND POST THEM ANYWAY YOU WANT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!!

Illinois Appellate Court Intentionally Violates Constitution, Illinois Supreme Court Rule, & United States Supreme Court

2009-08-24T22:25:00.004-05:00

The Illinois Appellate Court is proving how corrupt it is by snubbing its nose at United States Supreme Court precedent ("stare decisis"), snubbing its nose at the United States Constitution's due process and equal protection clauses, and violating Illinois Supreme Court Rule 607, all of which are the basis for the standard practice in American Law to provide free transcripts to indigent defendants so they can pursue their constitional right to a direct appeal of their conviction.

Corruption is pervasive in Illinois politics, Illinois courts, and Illinois policing agencies. American justice is a myth in Illinois. Illinois is a totalitarian police state.

Anyone who wishes to donate expertise at contacting the press, expertise at spreading the word on the Internet in order to bring the light of day to this corruption, pro bono legal expertise in assisting in bringing this case to the United States Supreme Court, or provide support in some other way, please contact me. I could use all the help I can get.

I have filed a criminal appeal on a case where I as a disabled person in a wheelchair was attacked by Cook County Sheriff Sgt. Anthony Salemi, he falsified his records, accused me of attacking him, committed perjury and I was wrongfully convicted:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/16301520/Appeal-of-Wrongful-Conviction-Battery-Shelton-Illinois-2009

The trial court declared me indigent and ordered the court reporter to file a free copy of the transcripts with the court for an appeal. The court reporter has refused to follow the court order. The trial judge refuses to enforce the order because he said he lost jurisdiction to the IL Appellate Court.

The IL Appellate court has six time refused to enforce the court order and compel the court reporter to file the transcripts or hold her in contempt. My appeal is therefore delayed due to the illegal and unconstitutional acts of the Illinois Appellate Court First District.

The costs of copying documents and writing them, mailing costs and delivery costs are being paid by loans or gifts from friends and relatives, but is not quite enough to continue all necessary litigation on all my issues. I am indigent due to disabilities and retaliatory false arrests and malicious prosecutions against me as I am a whistle blower in Illinois exposing government corruption and fraud.

The Illinois Supreme Court also has denied a motion for supervisory order to compel the court reporter to file the transcripts and compel the IL Appellate Court to enforce the order.

The IL Appellate Court granted the Cook County States Attorney's motion to compel me to pay for the transcripts and file them, instead of the court reporter. This is fraud upon the court as it violates a previous court order and is contempt as it also violates the United States Supreme Court holding (precedent) in a case where they ruled that indigent defendants are entitled under the due process and equal protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution to a free transcript for appeal. Illinois Supreme Court Rule 607 also mandates that indigent defendants are entitled to free transcripts filed with the court clerk by the court reporter.

Therefore both the Illinois Supreme Court and Illinois Appellate Court are committing illegal acts.

The Illinois Appellate Court has now vacated their order to compel me to file the transcripts as I moved for them to vacate order as they illegally granted the motion from the State two days too early according to IL Supreme Court rules. They also allowed me to file immediately (instanter) my response to the States Attorney's motion to compel me to file the transcripts. This response clearly spells out the illegal acts of the IL Appellate and IL Supreme Courts in refusing to uphold previous court orders, and statutory and constitutional rights as previously decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. These are impeachable intentional acts by these corrupt and dishonorable judges. I hope the IL Appellate Court recognizes its mistakes and doesn't just vacate the order to re-instate it several days later when the law allows them to make a decision.

It is incumbent upon the IL Appellate Court to compel the court reporter to file the transcripts and hold her in contempt if she fails to do so.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/18285468/Response-to-State-Motion-to-Deny-Indigent-Defendant-Transcripts-for-Appeal-Illinois-Appellate-Court-2009

Another Corrupt Government Agency in Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago - the schools

2009-08-01T10:02:00.007-05:00

The feds have issued search warrants for the records at the Illinois Secretary of State's Office and convicted George Ryan, Governor's Office and indicted Rod Blagojevic, Chicago City Hall and convicted Sorich, Illinois Department of Corrections for taking bribes and convicted the former Director, Illinois Department of Professional Regulation - investigation pending, Cook County Human Resources - investigation pending, etc., and now has issued search warrants for the Chicago Public Schools because of questionable placement of students in highly selective schools. The U.S. Attorney has issued a 98 page report detailing extensive pattern of civil rights violations at the Cook County Department of Corrections. Even college admissions are being looked at as corrupt in Illinois State schools.

I have successfully litigated against the Cook County Sheriff for violation of Freedom of Information Act. I am presently litigating in civil court against the Illinois Department of Corrections for violation of State laws in running a sham parole system that commits fraud in excess of $36 million, for failing to follow law as to Prisoner Review Board orders to parolees for mental health evaluation and treatment. I have won a suit against the Illinois Department of Corrections for violating the Freedom of Information Act. I have won a suit against the Illinois Human Rights Authority for failing to do their constitutional duty and investigate abuse of mental health patietns. I am suing AG Lisa Madigan, several judges and the State police for unlawful arrest and malicious prosecution in a scheme to deny mental health care to persons on Medicaid and to fraudulently attack legitimate mental health service providers so they can claim they are tough on fraud.

I and a number of whistle blowers have lots more evidence of fraud, kickbacks, and other corruption in Illinis, Cook County, and Chicago by corrupt officials. Please contact me and help financially support our efforts to expose and eliminate corruption in Illinois. Stop allowing 10 % of your tax dollars to be used for kickbacks and fraud. Stop allowing State, County, and City jobs to be given out according to race and patronage. Stop excess incarcerations and failure to rehabilitate that may make more prison jobs but makes Illinois more unsafe as unrehabilitated addicts and criminals are released and not properly supervised.

Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, and its suburbs are a cesspool of patronage, kickbacks, bribery, fraud and corruption at the expense of the taxpayers and to the detriment of all its citizens. Stop voting for the same corrupt officials over and over. Go to the polls and vote them out of office, including all those who inherited their positions. Stop allowing political dynasties to rule our State. Vote against the Burks, Madigans, the Daleys, the Strogers, the Beavers, the Steels, the Hasterts, the and their loyal servants, Dart, Alvarez etc.

Contact me at picepil@aol.com with evidence of corruption in Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago. Give me permission to publicize that evidence on this site. If you are an attorney consider taking one of our issues and making it into a class action suit. Contact me for documents we have already filed. Consider taking one of my cases in civil court pro bono. Go to courts on your free days and days off and observe the corruption in our courts, take notes, and send me them to post on this site. Contact Shelton through comments on this post and offer to help organize regular meetins to share, discuss, and disseminate the evidence in our possession about corruption. Donate money to help Linda Shelton pursue her civil litigation and fight further unlawful arrests at:

Shelton legal fund
C/O Albukerk & Associates
3025 W 26th Street 2nd Floor
Chicago IL, 60625

Chicago Fees Extort Money from Small Business

2009-07-20T08:40:00.003-05:00

The job losses and poor economy should be an incentive for municipalities to make their cities and towns more friendly and less costly to small businesses that often financially struggle to stay in existence. Chicago believes the opposite. Our wonderful mayor and city council have made sure to nickle and dime small businesses with unnecessary costs, fees, and regulations.

The number of empty storefronts is sure to grow until the city council is replaced with responsible aldermen who realize that 80 % of jobs in this country come from small businesses. They should do EVERYTHING possible to eliminate paperwork, unnecessary regulations, excessive fees, and hassles for small businesses in Chicago.

Mayor and Aldermen - ANY COMMENT?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0717workjul17,0,1783432.story

Illinois Parole System a Fraud - Endangers the Public

2009-07-19T08:54:00.006-05:00

I have now filed an Illinois Appellate Court appeal of a civil case I brought, pro se (through self-representation) in the public interest. If there are any pro bono attorneys who care about society and wish to help me, please contact me at picepil@aol.com.

If you are reading this blog, you are aware that I was wrongfully convicted of aggravated battery to a correctional officer in 2007 and sentenced to two years IDOC and one year mandatory supervised release (parole). I served the minimum of 6 months and one year parole. The facts are that I am innocent. The corrupt officer, Sgt. Anthony Salemi, attacked me in my wheelchair while I was wrongfully incarcerated, falsified his records, said I attacked him, committed perjury at trial, and the prosecuters committed extreme prosecutorial misconduct while the judge denied due process. See my appeal: http://www.scribd.com/doc/16301520/Appeal-of-Wrongful-Conviction-Battery-Shelton-Illinois-2009

During the parole time, I discovered that the parole system is a sham with incompetent sociopathic and undertrained parole officers who are not supervised properly. My parole officer, Victoria Dockery (alias Pork), supposedly supervised by P/A Dana Travis falsified her records and issued an arrest warrant for me that was on the books for five months and the fugitive apprehension unit of the IDOC NEVER EVER attempted to capture or find me.

I am disabled, live with my father, was hospitalized several times during this period for a heart procedure and stroke like symptoms. Therefore, I am NOT difficult to find. I also appeared in both federal and state court on criminal cases and on my civil cases more than 30 times and no officer even attempted to arrest me for this warrant, despite the fact I am on their "escort" list as a danger for unknown reasons (because I sue corrupt officials). Apparently the fugitive apprehension unit is a joke and exists on paper only. The Director of the parole division of IDOC was informed of all this and has done nothing. Apparently he is also being paid fraudulently for doing nothing.

The Dir. of IDOC also admitted to me in writing that the IDOC contracts with a private agency to maintain a parolee check-in telephone number but they don't have a contract. The comptroller has confirmed this agency, Protocol Services, Inc., has been paid by the state of IL $6 million per year for the past six years. It is illegal in Illinois to give this much money to a contractor without competitive bidding and a contract. Therefore the Dir. of the IDOC is admitting fraud and corruption.

The IL Attorney Gen. Madigan is defending these acts of violations of law. This is outrageous. She should recuse herself from this case, work with the US Attorney, and recommend that corrupt officials be indicted. The lack of a functional parole system in Illinois not only wastes money through fraud, but is a danger to the public.

The acting Dir. of the IL State Police, Mr. Monken is refusing to investigate these crimes. He therefore, should NOT be confirmed in his position by the Illinois Senate. I have reported all of this to the FBI, but they have not done anything yet. They are slow as malasses.

Mr. Birkett and other candidates: What are you going to do about this corruption?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/17475829/Shelton-Appellate-Brief-IL-State-Case-Mandamus-IL-Parole-System-2009

Excess Incarceration Rate Leads to More Troubled Children and More Welfare

2009-07-04T17:43:00.006-05:00

The huge incarceration rate in Illinois, where we send non-violent drug abusers and thieves to prison at a rate 40 times greater than any civilized country means that we are breaking our economy. The children of the prisoners are a great social burden when parents don't earn an income or care for them. Tax dollars are also lost when prisoners do not work.

It is a much better solution to sentence non-violent offenders to curfews when not at work and community service to pay back what they took from society. Restorative justice is more appropriate. In prison less than 15% of addicts get treatment and there are five times more mentally ill in prison, without appropriate treatment than in all the mental health facilities in the country combined.

It is a much better solution to pay for daily drug addiction treatment, home monitoring, and mental health treatment than to pay $30,000 per year to incarcerate a prisoner, not treat them, and then send them back to a life of crime or untreated mental illness.

We are FOOLS in Illinois and the rest of the country! What a waste of dollars and human potential! Talk to your legislators. Elect only those that pledge to change this disaster. Our phony war of being "tough on crime" is a joke and has not worked. These prisoners, are usually released. If we don't rehabilitate them, we deserve what we get.

For discussion and solutions to the problems see:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/us/05prison.html?_r=1

http://drlindashelton.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/help-save-economy-by-saving-billions-with-judicialprison-reform-stop-torture/

http://drlindashelton.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/re-integrating-600000-ex-cons-per-year-and-growing-give-your-suggestions/

http://drlindashelton.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/punishment-and-fairness-comparative-nature-of-punishment/

Chicago Police Ofc Gets Off Lightly - Corrupt Judge Fleming

2009-06-23T22:16:00.007-05:00

Circuit Court of Cook County Judge John Fleming continued the tradition of letting the police get away with anything and sentenced Chicago Police Officer Anthony Abbate, a 250 lb man, who brutally beat a 125 lb female bartender and was convicted of aggravated battery to only two years probation and NO prison time. The woman now suffers post-traumatic-stress, nightmares, and great fear.

This is another example of the outrageous favoratism towards cops and official misconduct of Cook County judges. They let officers lie through their teeth and even when they are caught red-handed on tape in criminal activity, they get away with it. Abbate even is still claiming he is innocent and the woman started the fight!! He shows no remorse! – And the judge didn’t take this into consideration?

The man was clearly seen on surveillance video from the bar in this aggravated battery against a defenseless and tiny woman. What more do you need to convince the judge that giving him a slap on the wrist condones this conduct?

Failure to jail this dirtbag gives the message that drunkenness excuses behavior, police can get away with anything, there is a double standard regarding police v. average citizens, and that Chicago remains as corrupt as ever. It depricates the seriousness of the offense and gives the green light to other officers to abuse citizens.

For another opinion see: http://radiochicagoland.blogspot.com/2009/06/fire-judge-john-j-fleming-and-jail.html

Until the public votes out those in office that condone this outrageous behavior of not just police, but more so of the courts such as Stroger, Daleys, Madigans, Dart, Beavers, Jones, Steele, and all their cronies, Chicago, C[r]ook County, and Illinois will remain lawless where the officials use citizens as their slaves and puppets in total disregard for humanity, for their own profit and fame. Deals will still be made behind closed doors and transparency will be hypothetical only.
I was beaten and choked by Sheriff Sgt. Anthony Salemi, he falsified his records, accused me of attacking him, committed perjury and I was wrongfully convicted. I received a two year prison sentence, served the sentence and parole before I was allowed to appeal in violation of the constitution. Fed. Judge Coar has even ruled that the IL Appellate Court is impeding my appeal! I am disabled and was abused and medically neglected in prison. Torture is the appropriate word. I am a non-violent pacifist. I have no prior record! I am a whistle blower against corrupt officials and police in Cook County, IL. This attack on me was retaliation for my complaints of corruption. I’m sure, if there is justice, the conviction will be overturned shortly, and then I will bring the mother of all civil rights suits against this creep, the creeps that support him such as Sheriff Inv. Sofus, and Sheriff Dart.

There is no equal treatment here! The Circuit Court of Cook County is a criminal enterprise. The U.S. Attorney should make indictments against these corrupt officials and police for felony violation of civil rights under color of law.

I hope the woman wins a huge award in her civil suit against him! I applaud CPD Supt. Jody Weiss in seeking his dismissal from the CPD. I just want to ask Supt. Weiss – Why won’t you have a meeting with me? The CPD beat me several times illegally, while I was in a wheelchair! I have pictures and your dept. of professional responsibity (internal affairs) did nothing!! I’ve requested meetings and you haven’t even had the courtesy to respond to me.

For details of my case see: http://cookcountysheriffdeputies.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/dr-shelton-appeals-wrongful-conviction-sgt-salemi-attacked-her/

Legislature Ignores Call for Reform in Illinois

2009-06-16T06:57:00.003-05:00

Gov. Quinn appointed a reform commission and they made modest suggestions. Illinois' legislature under the iron hand of Speaker of the House for the past 20 yrs Mike Madigan and a handfull of other Lords of the system made sure this won't happen on his watch.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/us/16reform.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes

Cook County Sheriff Illegally Shackles Women During Childbirth

2009-06-15T13:50:00.002-05:00

As usual, the Cook County Sheriff feels he is above the law and above morality. Therefore a class action suit has been filed on behalf of women shackled during childbirth.

Personally I think it is obscene and cruel and unusual punishment to separate women form their children during the first crucial two years of their lives. Most civilized countries allow women to keep their babies with them for two years in jail or prison so that bonding is not interrupted.

Apparently America is still uncivilized.

http://kurthlampe.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/woman-in-childbirth-shackled-by-cook-county-sheriff/

Murder of Inmate at IDOC from Medical Neglect by Wexford Physicians

2009-06-10T16:08:00.005-05:00

Wexford has a contract too provide medical care to inmates in the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC). I presume they paid the 10% kickback (bribe) to get the multimillion dollar contract. I also presume they get bonuses for failing to refer inmates to outside consultants and for skimping on medical care and using generic medications and denying expensive cancer care, care for HIV, and care for severe chronic illnesses.

Mr. Burhmester died recently in prison due to extreme medical neglect. He had suffered excruciating pain from ulcerative colitis and died due to lack of proper medical care.

We need a federal investigation and indictments for felony violation of civil rights. See: http://www.wicd15.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wicd_vid_895.shtml

Shelton Files Appeal of Wrongful Conviction - Officer Attacked Her and Falsified Records

2009-06-10T14:25:00.006-05:00

I have now filed my Illinois Appellate Court appeal of my wrongful conviction for aggravated battery of a correctional officer. Sgt. Anthony Salemi had attacked me, falsified his records, committed perjury, and with the help of Nifong-like prosecutorial misconduct and extreme judicial misconduct I was convicted and sentenced to two years in the Illinois Dept. of Corrections plus one year of mandatory supervised release.

I served the minimum 6 months and the full supervised release and was not able to appeal due to illegal conduct of staff at the Cook County Dept. of Corrections and Illinois Dept. of Corrections where I was held and due to damage to my health requiring several hospitalizations within the last year since my release on March 27, 2008 from prison. The damage to my health was a result of torture at the CCDOC and IDOC by ignorant, sociopathic, poorly trained officers and incompetent medical staff (with the exception of Dr. Baker). The social workers even told me they purposely were told not to allow me to use the law library. My medications were withheld in illegal acts of willful indifference to medical needs.

I have informed the FBI and asked them to prosecute for felony conspiracy to violate rights under color of law, etc.

You can read my appeal at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/16301520/Appeal-of-Wrongful-Conviction-Battery-Shelton-Illinois-2009

Sherrif Deputies Commit Perjury

2009-06-06T12:40:00.003-05:00

Cook County Sheriff Deputies Rebecca Doran and Maureen Caliendo, with the full encouragement of Assistant Chief Lyons and the Cook County State's Attorney falsely arrested Dr. Shelton, maliciously prosecuted Dr. Shelton, for aggravated battery, but Dr. Shelton was found not guilty by a responsible and honest, intelligent judge, Honorable Judge James L. Rhodes, who found the deputies' testimony "not credible".

http://cookcountysheriffdeputies.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/deputy-rebecca-doran-deputy-maureen-caliendo-sergeant-patricia-mccollum-assistant-chief-kevin-lyons/

Fight Corruption with Patriotism - Stand Up & Be Counted

2009-05-23T21:55:00.004-05:00

PATRIOTISM MEANS STANDING UP – FIGHT CORRUPTION

How can we fight corruption as an ordinary citizen?

Patriotism to me is helping not just secure our country and protecting the Constitution, but ACTIVELY working on a daily and regular basis to make our country better. This means walking the walk and not just talking the talk. Patriotism is a constant war where we serve and protect our values embodied in our Constitution. Never fight a war unless you are willing to die. Yes there are sacrifices, but that is the price of justice and freedom.

In the United States ask who in the population is thought to be putting themselves on the line every day and not shirking their responsibility to their country? I don’t just mean upholding the law as an officer! I mean standing next to your neighbor, your colleague, your co-worker, your enemy – whenever and whereever the Bill of Rights is threatened. Stand up for compassion. Stand up for opportunity. Stand up for education. Stand up for justice. Stand up for those who can’t stand up for themselves.

We have failed as Americans in the last few decades by looking the other way, being only self-centered and self-interested, putting profit before compassion and justice, ignoring our neighbors, wearing blinders next to the needy, and justifying our mistakes with pat phrases. Silence and lack of action are the biggest dangers to our democracy. Transparency, action, and open debate will save us.

Please be patriotic – VOTE at EVERY ELECTION. INFORM yourself about the candidates. Please DON”T cover up corruption. BREAK the thin blue line and stand with what’s right. SPEAK OUT for those who are attacked for defending the Bill of Rights.

Don't have a defeatest attitude. Yes we can fight city hall if we are united. We only lose if we allow intimidation, greed, defamation, and power grabbers to succeed.

UNITED WE STAND – DIVIDED WE FALL!

Chief Judge Timothy Evans Asked to Resign

2009-05-19T13:44:00.003-05:00

STOP ILLINOIS CORRUPTION
Linda Lorincz Shelton, Ph.D., M.D.
Founder and Director
708 952-0040

April 19, 2009

Chief Judge Timothy Evans
Circuit Court of Cook County
50 W. Washington, Rm 2600
Chicago, IL 60602

Dear Judge Evans:

Thank you for your response letter of April 20, 2009. I understand your concerns not to involve yourself in judicial decisions concerning other judges. However, decisions on indigency petitions are not judicial decisions. They are administrative decisions. As chief administrator of the courts you are responsible for the employees under you including the judges, the clerk, and the court reporters. As you have now willfully refused to do your job and actually are condoning many criminal acts committed by judges under you, the Sheriff’s staff, the Court Clerk, and the Court Reporters, I MUST NOW ASK ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS OF COOK COUNTY FOR YOUR RESIGNATION. It is not acceptable for the Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County to engage in willful denial of due process on such a large scale, and at the same time to abdicate his responsibility as an administrator. The net result of your crimes is that you are participating in running the Circuit Court of Cook County as a criminal enterprise.

It is clear from your previous responses to my concerns that you have no intention of doing your job as an administrator. Your court reporters have defied and still are defying court orders to prepare and file transcripts in 05 CR 29530 [correction - 05 CR 12718]. The Illinois Appellate Court has also violated their oaths of office and the law by failing to enforce Judge Kazmierski’s order to prepare free transcripts and file them. Therefore, Federal Judge Coar has ruled in 09 C 105, a habeas corpus petition on this case, that the Appellate Court through their actions has waived the right of the State of Illinois to insist I exhaust State remedies with direct appeals and a petition for habeas before the Illinois Supreme Court. He is hearing my habeas petition on this [wrongful] conviction where a Cook County Correctional Officer, Sgt. Anthony Salemi, attacked me, falsified his records, perjured himself in court, and the Judge, Kazmierski, committed gross judicial misconduct and the prosecutors, Andrew Dalkin and John Maher committed gross prosecutorial misconduct resulting in an unfair trial denying me due process. Then Judge Kazmierski illegally sentenced me to two years in IDOC, refused to stay sentence pending appeal, in violation of U.S. Supreme Court Holding in Cunningham v. California, 127 S. Ct. 856 (2007). I fully expect to be vindicated and for the Sgt. to be arrested and convicted of official misconduct and other crimes and for the prosecutors to be charged with prosecutorial misconduct and punished appropriately. Judge Kazmierski should be disciplined and I intend to find a way to hold him accountable in a court of law or before the JIB and press.

Judge Maddux is running a criminal enterprise called the Law Division, which denies pro se litigants in particularly the constitutional rights to redress of grievances and due process. He does this by running an illegal and unconstitutional operation called the “Black Line Trial System” of which you are fully aware and condone. He also illegally denies indigent petition and then violates law by ordering his clerks not to promptly give the litigant a copy of their petition and his order concerning the petition. I have now publicized this misconduct and criminal RICO violation on the Internet. As you know Sheila Mannix has also documented and publicized the RICO operation run by the Family Court Division and its judges, which you apparently also condone. See:

Judge William D Maddux, in collusion with Sheriff Dart and Clerk Dorothy Brown, as well as with approval of Chief Judge Timothy Evans runs the Law Division of the Circuit Court of Cook Count as a Criminal Enterprise in violation of RICO. The following has been provided to the FBI and posted on my blogs:

http://cookcountyjudges.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/judge-maddux-dismisses-torts-with-dual-court-assignments-for-same-case-hidden-black-line-trial-call-rico-violation/

http://illinoiscorruption.blogspot.com/2009/05/judge-maddux-runs-law-division-cook.html

Circuit Court of Cook County Family Division is Criminal Enterprise and committing RICO violations. See federal RICO suit brought by Dr. Sheila Mannix:

1:09-cv-00103

Dorothy Brown’s Clerk’s Office has violated Supreme Court Rules and failed to transmit a notice of appeal in a criminal case, as well as has refused to pepare a record of appeal in that case, along with permitting and condoning her staff in stealing court files from pro se litigants, extorting money from indigent litigants, and causing false arrest of indigent llitigants, as noted in above Internet blogs. As you are fully aware of these crimes and have failed to act to stop further crimes and remedy the above, you are aiding and abetting in such criminal acts, as well as attempting to cover them up.

You are also fully informed that Judge Schultz, Gainer, Alonso, Pantle, Beibel have blatantly violated law, including Illinois Supreme Court Rules and United States Supreme Court Holdings. I also have evidence of misconduct of at least a half dozen other judges including Judges Kuriakos Ciecil, Brosnahan, Petrone, and Donnelly.

http://illinoiscorruption.blogspot.com/2009/04/presiding-criminal-court-judge-paul-p.html

http://illinoiscorruption.blogspot.com/2009/02/judge-jorge-alonso-overturns-federal.html

http://illinoiscorruption.blogspot.com/2009/01/criminal-acts-il-attorney-general-lisa.html

http://illinoiscorruption.blogspot.com/2008/12/save-life-dr-maisha-hamilton-bennett.html

http://illinoiscorruption.blogspot.com/2008/12/lawless-corrupt-incompetent-wacko-cook_04.html

As Chief Judge of the Circuit Court you are responsible for referring judicial misconduct to the JIB and you have failed to do so. You are also responsible for judicial assignments, yet you leave judges who blatantly violate the law in positions of authority and supervision over other judges. Your failure to do you job is not only irresponsible, but I believe purposeful.

I have also fully informed the FBI about the above schemes and crimes, as well as your refusal to do your job. I believe these acts amount to felony theft of honest services, felony conspiracy to violate rights under color of law, felony violation of rights under color of law, obstruction of justice, extortion, fraud, official misconduct, and wire fraud, as well as other crimes including felony RICO violations.

I respectfully therefore, as a citizen on behalf of the people of Cook County ask for your resignation as Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County.

Sincerely,
Linda Lorincz Shelton, Ph.D., M.D.

Judge Maddux Runs Law Division Cook County Court as Criminal Enterprise - Dr Linda Shelton Unlawfully Arrested

2009-05-17T20:57:00.006-05:00

Circuit Court of Cook County Law Division Presiding Judge William Maddux blatantly violates constitutional rights of litigants and runs the Circuit Court of Cook County Law Division as a criminal enterprise to enrich the County of Cook Circuit Court Clerk’s Office and Sheriff’s Office. He requires indigent plaintiffs to pay-to-play in regards to enforcing their rights to redress of grievances by filing a suit. He illegally denies indigency petitions. He illegally orders his clerks to refuse to give the litigant a copy of the order granting or denying the indigency petition.

Dr. Linda Shelton unlawfully arrested by A/C Nolan of the Cook County Sheriff's Office when she tried to get Sheriff to enforce her right to sue as an indigent person. Sheriff Dart and Court Clerk Dorothy Brown aiding and abetting, or participating in this RICO crime. This is racketeering to enrich a criminal enterprise - the Circuit Court of Cook County and the Cook County Sheriff's Office. This also illegally denies the right of citizens in Illinois to sue corrupt officials and police in C[r]ook County Illinois and Chicago.

For details please read the following document:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/15575803/Cook-County-Circuit-Court-a-Criminal-Enterprise-Judge-Maddux-2009

If you wish to help fight this corruption please donate to Dr Linda Shelton's legal fund:

Make checks payable to J. Nicolas Albukerk & Associates
Write on them - "for Dr. Linda Shelton legal fund

C/O J. Nicolas Albukerk and Associates
Dr. Linda Shelton legal fund
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Chicago, IL 60623

Illinois Corruption from Stem to Stern - Recent Summary

2009-05-15T09:44:00.004-05:00

The University of Illinois Political Science Department has written an excellent summary of corruption cases over the last 35 years or so. This is a great reference and illustrates that Illinois is run by patronage, bribery, and a long-term mentality of pay-to-play. Competence and cost-effectiveness are ignored. Power, greed, and patronage rules. That is one reason Illinois has more politicians per capita than any other state and why corruption costs taxpayers over $ 500
million per year. As most contracts in Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois require 10 % kickbacks (bribes) the burden of corruption on taxpayers in Illinois is huge and a large reason for our failing economy in Illinois.

http://www.uic.edu/depts/pols/ChicagoPolitics/Anti-corruptionReportNumber2.pdf

In my opinion, until we have a truth commission that encourages open confession and transparency, Illinois will not change.

Cook County Jail Officer Charged with Bringing Drugs into Jail

2009-04-29T22:19:00.002-05:00

A Cook County jail guard was ordered held on $250,000 bail April 17, 2009 after allegedly smuggling marijuana, tobacco and Bacardi rum into the Cook County Jail for an inmate.
Jose C. Nava Jr., 37, is charged with official misconduct and bringing contraband into a penal institution, among other charges.

See Chicago Sun Times article:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/1531637,county-officer-sneaks-drugs-into-jail-041709.article

Cook County Jail Computer SO OLD its Dangerous

2009-04-29T22:10:00.003-05:00

The County of Cook has been so negligent in not funding computer upgrades that lawyers have asked a federal judge to order it to update the 30 year old antiquated DOS based computer system at the largest county jail in the country. Even Sheriff Dart admits that there is a danger of releasing the wrong inmate.

This is typical of Cook County where pay-to-play is King and priorities are backwards. Despite the highest county taxes in the country, Cook County because it wastes 10% of the citizen's tax dollars on "required" kickbacks, excess employees with four hour lunches, and padded salaries of incompetent patronage hires, can't afford the basics that ensure public safety. Corruption is still King in Cook County.

For more information see:

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/03/cook-county-jail-computer.html

Presiding Criminal Court Judge Paul P. Biebel Jr Violates Law - Withdraws Defendant's Notice of Appeal

2009-04-24T14:56:00.007-05:00

I filed a Notice of Appeal as a right with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County on March 9, 2009. I was found not guilty of Medicaid vendor fraud because it was a case of ID theft. I am NOT appealing the verdict. I am appealing the issue of jurisdiction both because controversies remain and due to the public interest exception to the mootness doctrine.

The Circuit Court loses jurisdiction once the Notice of Appeal is file. The Clerk of the Court is required by law to transmit the Notice of Appeal to the Illinois Appellate Court.

On March 20, 2009 Judge Biebel sue sponte wrote an order barring the Clerk from transmitting the Notice of Appeal or from preparing the record on appeal, illegally declaring that there was “no appeallable order”.

I too the Notice of Appeal to the Illinos Appellate Court and had the case docketed - 09-0949. I also filed the following two motions. Judge Biebel has violated his oath of office by blatantly violating law.

The result of his order would have been to deny the appeal of the jurisdictional issue, which if I win, will set precedent and prove that Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and the Illinois State Police Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in conjunction with the Office of Inspector General Federal Dept. of Health and Human Services have been illegally and baselessly prosecuting a number of quality and dedicated providers of mental health services to persons on Medicaid. A win would free Dr. Maisha Hamilton Bennett, overturn her conviction and overturn the conviction of Naomi Jennings and perhaps others I don’t know about, as well as force the prosecution against Vernon Glass to cease.

As explained in the following link AG Madigan and IL Medicaid (started by previous AG Ryan and previous administrations) have a scheme to deny mental health care to persons on Medicaid, use this as a phony claim they are tough on fraud for election purposes, and use this to help balance the IL budget on the backs of the mentally ill. They are claiming that Medicaid will not pay for psychiatric services performed by non-physicians such as licensed drug-addiction counselors and psychologists when billed fee-for-service as employees of physicians. They claim it is felony fraud for a physician to bill Medicaid for services of such licensed employees.
This essentially denies mental health care to persons on Medicaid as > 80 % of mental health care in this country is provided by non-physicians. We need 30,000+ pediatric psychiatrists yet the country has less than 5,000. Failure to provide mental health care increases crime, misery, family disruption, and poverty. It is a disaster to our economy. Judge Biebel is part of the problem, not the solution. He should be impeached. As presiding criminal division judge he should be held to a higher standard and should know better.

For a detailed and exhaustive analysis of the fraudulent nature of the charges and the state scheme see:
http://illinoiscorruption.blogspot.com/2009/02/judge-jorge-alonso-overturns-federal.html
For a detailed analysis of why the indictment is legally insufficient and therefore the case is void see:
http://illinoiscorruption.blogspot.com/2008/10/legally-insufficient-indictment-failure.html
For a shorter description of the scheme by the state to deny mental health care see:
http://illinoiscorruption.blogspot.com/2008/10/criminal-scheme-of-il-attorney-general.html
For detailed discussion of the jurisditional issues in a federal Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus which was denied and is pending before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals under the public interest exception to the mootness doctrine see:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/9708949/Shelton-Federal-Petition-for-Writ-Habeas-Corpus-Vendor-Fraud-2008

The following is my Motion to the IL Appellate Court to overturn Judge Biebel’s void and illegal order:

IN THE
APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS
FIRST DISTRICT

PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS ) Appeal from the Circuit Court
) of Cook County, Illinois
Plaintiff-Appellee )
)
-vs.- ) No. 04 CR 17571-03
)
LINDA L. SHELTON )
) Honorable Jorge Alonso
Defendant-Appellant ) Judge Presiding

MOTION TO ORDER JUDGE PAUL P. BIEBEL JR. TO VACATE HIS ILLEGAL ORDER FOR CIRCUIT COURT CLERK NOT TO TRANSMIT NOTICE OF APPEAL TO APPELLATE COURT

NOW COMES, Linda Shelton, Defendant, Pro Se, who respectfully moves this Honorable Court to order Presiding Circuit Court of Cook County Criminal Division Judge Paul P. Biebel Jr. to vacate his illegal order for Circuit Court of Cook County Clerk not to transmit Notice of Appeal in above titled case to Illinois Appellate Court. In support of this motion Defendant states as follows:
Defendant, pro se, filed Notice of Appeal (Exhibit A) with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County (“Clerk”) on March 9, 2009 and requested the Clerk to prepare the Record on Appeal.
Defendant, on April 10, 2009, received an order made sue sponte by Judge Paul P. Biebel Jr. instructing the Clerk NOT to transmit the Notice of Appeal to this Appellate Court stating that there was no final appealable order. (Exhibit B)
Notice of Appeal states that Defendant was found not guilty on February 24, 2009, but was appealing NOT THE VERDICT, but the issue of JURISDICTION of the court.
The Illinois Appellate Court, 3rd District in King v. DeDonker, 17 Ill.App.3d 1064, 309 N.E.2d 598 (1974) ruled that a judge’s refusal to enter a finding of not guilty after a not guilty verdict was a final appealable order. The United States Supreme Court in several cases granted certiorari after not guilty verdicts and ruled that issues in cases where there were not guilty verdicts were appealable if they met two tests: 1) there remained a controversy, and 2) when there is no threat of either multiple punishments or successive prosecutions as a result of overturning the decisions of the trial court; in essence that as long as the double jeopardy clause is not offended the appeal is not barred. United States v. Jenkins, 420 U.S. 358, 95 S.Ct. 1006, (1975); Serfass v. United States, 420 U.S. 377, 95 S.Ct. 1055 (1975); United States v. Wilson, 420 U.S. 332, 95 S.Ct. 1013 (1975); United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co, 430 U.S. 564, 97 S.Ct 1349 (1977); and United States v. Ceccolini, 435 U.S. 268, 98 S.Ct. 1054 (1978)
A case is only moot when it involves no controversy. Hynde v. Hopper, 56 Ill.App.2d 152, 205 N.E.2d 647 (1965)
In the present case there remains a controversy – the issue of personal and subject matter jurisdiction. The appeal and decision about this controversy denying Defendant’s multiple motions to dismiss pretrial for lack of jurisdiction was barred until there was a final order of the court (finding of not guilty after not guilty jury verdict). The issue is not moot because a decision on jurisdiction will solve several remaining controversies. There is no limitations on the time to appeal void orders.
First, if the case lacked jurisdiction and was null and void ab initio, then all bail orders are void and the Clerk may not retain the 10% of the bail or $1100, and she must return this money to the Defendant.
Second, if the case was null and void ab initio, then the case must be expunged from Defendant’s criminal record without charge to her and without the requirement that she apply for it to be expunged.
Third, if the case was null and void ab initio, then two findings of criminal contempt found during the precedings would also be null and void and must be vacated and expunged, even IF the defendant had made contemptuous statements or made contemptuous actions during these two hearings which would become nullities. ACC 050087-01 and ACC 070057-01
Fourth and finally, Defendant also claims that the issue of jurisdiction is not moot because if the valid controversy of alleged lack of jurisdiction in this case is resolved in favor of the State’s position that there is jurisdiction, res judicata on this issue would bar any tort action against Judge Pantle and Attorney General Lisa Madigan in federal case number 1:06-cv-04259, a pending civil rights suit against these persons on hold in federal court pending the disposition of this criminal case (now it will be taken off of hold status). The orders of the federal court based on presumed absolute judicial and prosecutorial immunity did not address the merits of the allegation of total lack of jurisdiction of prosecutor or Trial Court and its judge. Therefore, the Federal District Court has NOT decided this jurisdictional issue in the pending case, 1:06-cv-04259. There is no issue of res judicata barring the consideration by the Illinois Appellate Court of the controversy concerning jurisdiction in this case. The Federal Court order removing these two persons from the suit as defendants will be appealed due to their lack of jurisdiction. This order of the Federal District Court in case number 1:06-cv-04259 becomes null and void if this Illinois Appellate Court rules that this criminal case was null and void ab initio, as prosecutors and judges lose absolute immunity ONLY when they are declared to have NO jurisdiction in a case. Therefore a controversy remains as to whether the Illinois Attorney General ever had jurisdiction to indict and prosecute defendant and whether the Trial Court ever had jurisdiction to hear this case, based on the resulting void indictment. The resolution of this controversy has immediate impact on the resolution of the above mentioned federal case and on the convictions of Maisha Hamilton Bennett and Naomi Jennings, as well as on the pending criminal case against Vernon Glass. All these cases involve the same charges and the same issues leading to the conclusion that there was a lack of trial court and prosecutorial jurisdiction or authority as listed in the Notice of Appeal. Therefore, harm will befall defendant and continue to befall Maisha Hamilton Bennett, Naomi Jennings, and Vernon Glass if the issue on this appeal of jurisdiction is not resolved in defendant’s favor.
Therefore, the Illinois Appellate Court is NOT BARRED from hearing this appeal pertaining solely to the jurisdictional issues.

WHEREFORE, Defendant, respectfully moves this Honorable Court to issue an order for Judge Paul P. Biebel Jr. to vacate his order of March 20, 2009 to the Clerk not to transmit the Notice of Appeal to this Honorable Court.

Under penalties as provided by law pursuant to 735 ILCS 5/109-1 I certify that the statements set forth herein are true and correct.
Dated: April 14, 2009
Respectfully Submitted,
___________________
Linda L. Shelton, Ph.D., M.D. Linda L. Shelton

Dwight Penitentiary for Women - Abuse of Inmates Standard Fair

2009-04-12T14:40:00.002-05:00

Two federal lawsuits allege a pattern of sexual misconduct and repeated inmate rapes at Dwight Correctional Center with the knowledge of administrators at the maximum-security prison.

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/03/20/news/doc47e1fc57db601224975909.txt

Gov. Quinn - Please Pardon Debra Gindorf, Post-Partum Psychosis is an Illness NOT a Crime

2009-04-09T17:59:00.009-05:00

GOV. QUINN GRANTED CLEMENCY ON MAY 1, 2009 REDUCING DEBRA'S SENTENCE FROM LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE TO 48 YEARS. SINCE SHE HAS SERVED 24 YEARS AND THE SENTENCING LAW AT THE TIME REQUIRED A PRISONER TO SERVE HALF THE SENTENCE SHE WILL BE RELEASED IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS ONCE PAROLE CONDITIONS ARE SET AND LIVING ARRANGMENT IS APPROVED.

PLEASE WRITE OR CALL GOV. PAT QUINN IN SUPPORT OF PARDON AT:
Quinn, Pat 217-782-6830

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
CAPITOL BLDG RM 207
SPRINGFIELD IL 62706-1150

AN E-MAIL I SENT TO GOV. QUINN TODAY:

I am appalled that former Gov. Blagojevic ignored so many clemency petitions [THOUSANDS]. I am writing to bring to your urgent attention one of the most egregious cases where a person was wrongfully convicted. I wrote a letter several years ago to the Prisoner Review Board as an expert on pediatrics and post-partum psychosis, on her behalf urging clemency.

This case is a national and international embarrassment to Illinois. I urge you to make it your FIRST ACT of clemency ASAP.

Ms. Gindorf was a 20ish single mother of two small children/babies 24+ years ago - she had been abandoned by the father and was very poor. In a psychotic act due to post-partum psychosis and due to EGREGIOUS neglect of friends, family, and the state in not providing her the medical/psychiatric/social service help she needed, she apparently heard voices telling her to kill herself and take her children to heaven with her. She was also deeply depressed about her personal situation.

A family member suffered the same after giving birth two times, but I and family were always there to help her through this time. Unfortunately NO ONE WAS THERE TO HELP MS. GINDORF.

As a result she carefully washed and dressed her children/babies and gave them an overdose of over the counter medication (I’m not completely sure about what medication but that doesn’t matter) and also took an overdose herself. However, being young, uneducated and naive, she didn’t give herself a big enough dose and woke up later finding her children dead.

She was charged and convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole, because those many years ago the disease of post-partum psychosis was not recognized, and the murder of children always gets no sympathy from jurors who are so overwhelmed with passion against the murderer that they don’t usually think fairly or rationally.

She was clearly innocent due to temporary insanity from the post-partum psychosis. All the psychiatrists and a half dozen others who have examined her since or who are nationally renowned now support clemency. No where else in the world, let alone the U.S. are we so irrational and harsh in treatment of women with post-partum psychosis who commit crimes. It is a national and international disgrace and a stain on Illinois.

PLEASE SHOW THE WORLD, ILLINOIS, AND MS GINDORF THAT YOU RECOGNIZE THE WRONG DONE TO HER AND GRANT HER A FULL PARDON. I BELIEVE SHE IS ONLY REQUESTING CLEMENCY. Please pull out her clemency petition from the pile and review it first.

In Europe, women with this illness who murder their children are sent to a mental hospital for two years and released. [In England those that murder their child under age one are evaluated by a psychiatrist and if they did it due to post-partum psychosis, they are not prosecuted but are forced to undergo psychiatric treatment as long as necessary]. High-profile cases where a woman drowned her five children have resulted in not guilty verdicts due to post-partum psychosis. PLEASE SHOW THE WORLD THAT ILLINOIS IS COMPASSIONATE AND BRING IT INTO THE 21ST CENTURY NOW BY IMMEDIATELY GRANTING A FULL PARDON TO MS. GINDORF. I’m sure she will be shocked if you pardon her and not just release her with clemency.

Gov., I believe you are a rational, honest, and hard-working leader. Please reveal this to the world by taking this action!! I do not know Ms. Gindorf, but she deserves your mercy and a chance to recover some small amount of money from the state for wrongful incarceration and the way she has been mistreated by the courts. 24+ years in prison when she is innocent due to a transient mental psychosis is simply barbaric. Within a year of the “crime” she no longer was a danger to society or anyone. She is punished daily with the knowledge that she took the lives of her children, but has received mental health care and now copes with this reality.

This is a treatable illness that even goes away on its own within 6 mo to a year after the child’s birth and only recurs with pregnancy. Most women suffering from it if not treated commit suicide. It is treatable even after subsequent pregnancies. Ms. Gindorf, due to her age, no longer has the option of pregnancy so she is not a risk to anyone.

I am available for discussion at any time about the details of post-partum psychosis.

May the Lord give you the wisdom and strength to act quickly and boldly to reverse this injustice. I know you have a lot on your plate, but this action is sorely needed and will make you and all of us in Illinois feel a little better about admitting our mistakes. Please give Ms. Gindorf justice.

Yours truly,
Linda Lorincz Shelton, Ph.D., M.D.

Cook County Jail Staff Daily Commits Assault with a Deadly Weapon

2009-03-23T14:03:00.007-05:00

Jerry Brown, the Attorney General of California has indicted a doctor, a nurse, and a pharmacist for elder abuse and assault with a deadly weapon for forcing high doses of psychotropic medications on Alzeimer's and other patients to shut them up and keep them in a zombie like state. Three patients died due to results of these wrongful acts.

In Illinois it is illegal to involuntarily force psychotropic drugs like Haldol, Zyprexa, Ativan and even Benedryl by injection on patients unless they are an immediate danger to their own life or someone else's life and then a court order must be obtained to continue the medication involuntarily.

CCDOC officers constantly request nurses to give such medication to shut up complaints by inmates, to quiet them even though they are not harming anyone and are locked in their cells, and in retaliation for disagreements with the officers. Nurses call doctors on the phone and ask for prescriptions and the doctors illegally prescribe the medication without examining the patients. Even if they examine the patients doctors at CCDOC under the direction of the Director of Psychiatry, Dr. David Carrington, continue to violate ethical standards and the law with such prescriptions when they are not needed and when there has not been adequate evaluations or diagnoses that require such medication. Even if the medications may be indicated, they cannot be given involuntarily except under strict guidelines.

I complained to the Illinois Guardianship and Advocacy Commissions Human Rights Authority Branch that by law must investigate complaints of violations of the Illinois Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. They sustained my complaint that psychotropic drugs were being given illegally to inmates to shut them up. After the HRA warned Dr. Carrington that this illegal practice must stop, Dr. Carrington and his staff with assistance of the officers are continuing to violate the law. Each act of forcing psychotropic drugs on an inmate/patient without proper diagnosis and without documentation that they are a danger to their own life or the life of others is a class A misdemeanor.

For more details about this "Haldol Menace" see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA2S-oOOJyY&NR=1

Dr. Carrington should be disciplined, his license revoked, the nurse's involved licenses revoked, and the officers retrained to understand the law and how to properly help in the mental health care of mentally ill persons without assaulting them.

If this was California, Dr. Carrington would be charged with abuse of patients and assault with a deadly weapon and face up to 11 years in prison. Why is State's Attorney Anita Alvarez doing nothing? Why is the United States Attorney who came to the same conclusion about this medical battery and malpractice doing nothing? We need a public outcry, legislative hearings, and indictments and action by the Illinois Department of Professional Responsibility.

Please complain to:
Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, Cook County State's Attorney, 50 W. Washington, Room 500, Chicago, IL 60602,
Patrick Fitzgerald and Joan Laser, Asstant United State's Attorneys at 219 S. Dearborn, 5 th Floor, Chicago, IL 60604, and
the press.

This barbaric medical battery and abuse must stop! Injection of these drugs into asthmatics or others without careful review of their medical records and careful diagnosis is malpractice, assault with a deadly weapon, and medical battery. It may cause death in certain persons (fatal laryngospasm in asthmatics) and permanent brain injury. Haldol has now been documented to cause brain atrophy in long term use and has a half life of 8 days in the brain - and leads to serious complications in at least half of people it is given to.

Vastly Undertrained and Abusive Cook County Correctional Officers - Need Federal Oversight and Indictments to Issue

2009-03-12T07:58:00.010-05:00

The United States Attorney executed a 17 month investigation of Cook County Department of Corrections for Civil Rights Violations and concluded it is a terribly deficient institution where medical care is denied resulting in death, hygiene is non-existent, illegal gratuitous violence is the norm, (against inmates by officers and gang control pitting inmate against inmate) and there is a culture of corruption. Unfortunately the officers are improperly screened so that many bullies and sociopaths get hired and abuse inmates as well as violate law.

The press release from July 2007 announcing that the U.S. Attorney had finished their investigation of civil rights violations at CCDOC:

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/pr/chicago/2008/pr0717_01.pdf

The 98 page letter to the Cook County Commissioners which describes in detail the torture, medical neglect, excessive force, and unsanitary conditions including amputation of an inmates leg because the CCDOC staff withheld antibiotics when his leg was in a cast until pus was oozing from the cast and murder of an inmates by officers who knocked out his teeth, bashed in his head resulting in a skull fracture, and then left him to die without medical care locked in a cell, is contained in the following link:

http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/pr/chicago/2008/pr0717_01a.pdf

Why are there no indictments? What is the use of an investigation without teeth? Where are the outraged civil rights activists? Where is the public outrage on this issue? How can we ignore murder of inmates by guards, medical neglect requiring amputations, illegal forced druggings of inmates to shut them up, and this culture of neglect, abuse, and corruption?

Where are the hearings before the Cook County Board of Commissioners, the Illinois Reform Committee, the Illinois Senate and House Judiciary Committees, and the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representative's Judiciary Committees? Where is the outrage from Senators Durbin (Chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee), Obama, and McCain? This is an American Abu Ghraib. Where is the press?

Most of the officers are babies with no more than a high school education and two months of training at the Sheriff's academy at Moraine Valley Community College. That is barely enough to learn how to say "yes sir" to a supervisor, handcuff someone, how to handle a gun, and the bare basics of law, psychology, and self defense. They make up for this by being trained on the job to be loud foul-mouthed and attempt intimidation. They are also trained to act and not think and use pain procedures, mace, etc whenever possible to abuse inmates.

They have jobs at CCDOC because they are unable to obtain jobs anywhere else. They had NO skills when they graduated from High School because our education system stinks and our high school education is no better than grammar school education in other civilized countries. They work there because they obtained their job through connections or because that's one of the only things they can do that requires so little additional education. They want, immediately after high school good money, a pension, early retirement, and not much effort. They may feel pressured to get a job at the expense of education and long term goals because of acute financial needs.

They need our sympathy, but also they need oversight, better screening, and better training. You can't learn to be a correctional officer able to handle riots, psychotic inmates, medical emergencies, and irrational agression, essentially being a psychologist, a paramedic, a self-defense and control expert, and a paralegal in two months with only a high school degree. It is unfair to expect this of the officers and stupid to let them believe they have any degree of qualification to do so.

Society needs to provide treatment for mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction, which is presently essentially non-available to the Medicaid population in Illinois. It would be far less costly to spend $5,000 to $10,000 per person per year on this treatment than to incarcerate these people at the cost of $40,000 + cost of welfare for their families and cost of lost taxes because they don't work, along with the cost of their arrest and court case (I am estimating about $100,000 per year per inmate). I estimate that for each individual that is incarcerated due to non-violent crimes of theft or robbery to support a habit or when they were shoplifting or harassing someone to obtain food when they were mentally ill it would cost no more than about $200,000 for 20 years of treatment, but would cost 2 million in court costs, arrest costs, incarceration costs, welfare for their families, and lost tax revenues over the same 20 years. Our society is penny wise and pound foolish with its policy about being "tough on crime" meaning excessive incarceration from long sentences and total lack of rehabilitation, mental health treatment, or drug addiction and alcoholism treatment before, during, or after incarceration. We incarcerate 40,000 in Illinois prisons and probably an equal number in jails. Even if we are conservative and say only half would not be incarcerated if proper mental health care and drug addiction and alcoholism treatment was provided we could save about 1.8 billion per year in Illinois in court costs, policing costs, jail and prison costs and cost of crime in Illinois.

I don't think the public or government understands this is a tremendously large part of the problem with our economy right now. The costs of incarcerating more than 40 X more persons per capita than any other civilized country is staggering. President Obama should immediately pardon all non-violent non-dealer drug offenders, provide clemency to those that are mentally ill and committed non-violent crimes, and force the development of a plan for mental health, drug addiction and alcoholism treatment and SUPERVISION of those charged or convicted of such crimes. Inmates could be released in waves in a staged manner as such supersivion and medical care are instituted. Do you realize that if Illinois was England we would have only 1,000 persons in prison! (calculated from the per capita rate of incarceration) We must be doing something wrong!

The correctonal officers are essentially told they have the power and knowledge to act like all of the trained professionals mentioned above. In this case a little knowledge is worse than none at all because these puffed up, arrogant officers THINK they know what they are doing! The situation is extremely dangerous for both the officers and the inmates.

The "Stanford Prison Experiment" of the early 1970s proved that without extreme oversight a prison degenerates into a situation like in the book "the Lord of the Flies" - total anarchy and lawless brutality.

http://www.prisonexp.org/

Laws need to be changed and outside citizens need to provide oversight and continuing education. Extreme oversight needs to be instituted with extreme transparency. The fox cannot watch the hen house. It will take years to transition to a professional well-trained set of officers from the present vastly undertrained, horrendously incompetent, and pitifully abusive force that is now in place. Very few young new officers can avoid becoming callous, brutal, and aggressive numskulls under the pressure of their brain-washed and warped senior colleagues. I would estimate 5 % of the officers, 25 % of the sergeants, and 50 % of the higher ranking officers and officials at the CCDOC are maliciouis, arrogant, bullies, sociopathic, and dangerous criminals who should be removed from the ranks.

The situation is even more dangerous because medical staff at intake (nurses) have ammonia inhalant capsules and illegally use them on inmates to "shock" them out of "faking" their medical problems. Ammonia is a toxic gas and these capsules used 100 yrs ago as smelling salts by ladies with tight girdles who had a tendency to faint are now abused by correctional staff. In Florida a "nurse" and officers shoved ammonia capsules at a teen in a boot camp who was forced as punishment to run around a track. The teen DIED because of laryngospasm caused by the ammonia. This was murder and the Gov. of Florida then CLOSED all the teen boot camps. The nurse and officers stood trial for MURDER, but got off free - a verdict many of us disagree with as this is at least negligent manslaughter.

I was attacked by a nurse at CCDOC at intake with an ammonia capsule. I have chemically induced asthma from an environmental accident where I was overcome by gasoline fumes and this has sensitized my lungs. I fought off the toxic ammonia being forced before my face. The physician's assistant had listened to my lungs and proclaimed I was faking an asthma attack because he didn't hear wheezes. Unfortunately he was incompetent. I have "silent chest" type severe asthma where I don't wheeze but my lungs slowly collapse and nerve injury that weakens my muscles of expiration due to a spinal cord injury. This makes me NOT wheeze during asthma attacks, especially when I already have an element of laryngospasm. Fortunately the amount of exposure to the ammonia I received was small and I only went unconscious for a short period and turned blue. Sgt. Queen, who recognized I was having an asthma attack and went back to the nurse and told her I was turning blue. The medical staff just laughed as I was waking up and has perpetuated the false rumors that I fake my medical disorders. Ammonia capsules should be BANNED at CCDOC and these medical staff should be severely disciplined. They covered their misconduct by failing to document this in my medical record.

As I have posted on this site, I have been wrongfully incarcerated at CCDOC several times, an officer attacked me (Sgt. Anthony Salemi), falsified his records, and claimed I attacked him. I was convicted wrongfully and imprisoned when the court (Dishonorable Judge Kazmierski) and Nifong-like prosecutors (Andrew Dalkin and John Maher) gave false information to the jury and Sgt. Salemi committed perjury. The judge interferred with or forbid my attorney from giving evidence that proved my innocence. I have requested meetings with SA Richard Divine and now Anita Alvarez and Sheriff Sheahan and now Dart to provide them evidence of my innocence, my wrongful conviction and the perjury and official misconduct of their staff. So far they have REFUSED to meet with me. SOOO much for justice!

Federal Judge David Coar recently ruled that the Illinois Appellate Court has WAIVED the State's right to hear my appeal first and force me to exhaust state remedies (appeals) before coming to the federal court with a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus (request to overturn conviction due to actual innocence and unfair trial that violated due process as guaranteed by the Bill of Rights - including right to present evidence and defend oneself.

I have given Judge Coar the evidence of my innocence not allowed at trial. I expect within the next few months for him to overturn the conviction. Then I am hopeful Sgt. Salemi will be arrested for falsification of records, perjury, aggravated battery of a handicapped person, official misconduct and federal felony violation of civil rights under color of law along with his colleague Sgt. Molevetti who told me "We got you on one made charge so I can write anything I want [in the jail log books] and get you on another," and the officers who falsified records, improperly investigated the incident ignoring my information, or covered up this criminal act. Also I am hopeful Andrew Dalkin and John Maher will be disbarred and punished like former State's Attorney, now disbarred attorney and convict Mr. Nifong. Finally, I am prayerful that Judge Kazmierski will be disciplined and removed from the bench.

Now the potential injuries to inmates are even higher due to the authorization of the use of O.C. pepper spray and stun guns by jail supervisors and "specially trained" officers.

Unfortunately the officers who have the O.C. pepper spray are putting themselves at great risk of legal liability because the stuff can be deadly to a person like me with uncontrolled chemically induced asthma. This kind of chemical can induce a fatal asthma attack. The officers are so undertrained and the medical screening at the jail is so deficient (done by incompetent staff) that they would not be knowledgeable if the inmate had a potential to have a fatal reaction. Other conditions where it should never be used are ANY type of respiratory problem or certain heart conditions. Unfortunately the officers are not trained to humanely control psychotic or violent inmates. They are trained to damage and kill. They should be trained by mental health professionals and their teams at mental health facilities where psychology, environment, proper restraint procedures, and rational behavior are used instead of dangerous vicious and gratuitous intentional violence meant to mame and kill.

Stun guns should be banned also as they have caused many fatalities around the world and in the U.S. Anyone with a heart condition, particularly wild drug addicts and obese individuals, and particularly individuals like me with a history of serious cardiac arrythmias and invasive heart procedures is at great risk of death if stunned. Again the officers are so aggressive, malicious, careless, and untrained that they don't know or don't care about an inmates physical condition. Lt. Pan even said to the female inmates on 3E "We don't care if you're alive or dead in your cells, we just have to count you."

CCODC is a death chamber. They take a body out every other day. Most do not die of natural causes, despite the fraudulent claims of the medical examiner. They die of abuse, battery, and medical neglect. The fact that the United States Attorney knows about this and has indicted no one is atrocious. It's like telling a notorious gang "We investigated you and found you engage in murder, extortion, prostitution, gambling, and massive illegal drug dealing, so we are asking you to review this and make a plan to stop." How bizarre! How outrageous! How illegal!

I request a meeting with Sheriff Dart, Mental Health Professionals, Drug Addiction Professionals, Drug legalization advocates, Prison reform advocates, Prison and Jail Experts from other countries who do this better and from in the U.S., along with officials in Gov. Quinn's administration and President Obama's administration to sit down and come up with a plan.

United We Stand, Divided We Fall

Dr Shelton NOT GUILTY - IL Attorney General Corrupt, Judicial Corruption, Denial Mental Health Care to Persons on Medicaid

2009-02-27T13:20:00.006-06:00

Linda Lorincz Shelton, Ph.D, M.D.
STOP ILLINOIS CORRUPTION
Founder and Director
picepil@aol.com

February 27, 2009
Special Agent Robert Grant
Director Chicago – FBI
2111 West Roosevelt Road
Chicago, IL 60608-1128

Dear Dir. Grant:

I am writing to further inform you about the dysfunctional status and unconstitutional conduct of the Illinois Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, as well as to inform you about the facts pertaining to evidence I have of a crime of Medicaid Fraud including violation of 18 U.S.C. 371 mail fraud, 18 U.S.C. 1341 filing false claims, and 18 U.S.C. 287 fraudulent claims, a violation of 18 U.S.C. 1347 health care fraud. I strongly suggest that your office take over all Medicaid fraud prosecutions and investigations being done by the IL MFCU and the IL Attorney General immediately, as well as review the wrongful convictions of Dr. Maisha Hamilton Bennett and Naomi Jennings by these incompetent corrupt officials.

As you know, I was under indictment for the falsely alleged state crime of Medicaid vendor fraud. Please be informed that I was found NOT GUILTY by a jury. After unconstitutional rulings by Circuit Court of Cook Co Judge Alonso that fixed my trial and made wrongful conviction certain unless there was jury nullification I didn't show up for my State trial on Medicaid vendor fraud for which I am innocent. The jury made a finding of NOT GUILTY and Judge Alonso quashed the warrant for arrest on the basis of jumping bail and disobeying his orders because he said "what's the point." Your office has engaged in defamation against me including claiming that I have a mental health problem and that I am psychotic about corrupt officials being after me. Maybe you should change your tune and take me more seriously as if you don’t eventually your incompetence will be revealed and much evidence I and others have will have been ignored.

Now why don't you read what I sent you and get the Cook County State's attorney to arrest Itadel Shalabi and Nareman Taha for perjury [they are the ones who fabricated bills for Medicaid to get payment for patients they didn't see] and indict Louise Moore of Data Medical Works for Medicaid fraud [she bills for her billing services for the last ten years by percentage (8 %) which amounts to fraud as you know] and also for forgery as she forged my name on a power of attorney form, blue cross/blue shield electronic partner trading agreement, and alternate payee agreement so that Moore could put my name as a doctor and my Medicaid provider number on the invoices sent to Medicaid for services not done and encounter forms fabricated by Shalabi and Taha, and then Shalabi and Taha who were partners of Vernon Glass the CEO , could sign checks to themselves when the money came into the business Right Frame of Mind & Associates.

Why don't you arrest MFCU Inv. Reibel for falsifying his records and take over all Medicaid Fraud investigations in IL before the dysfunctional MFCU mucks up any more? Vernon Glass is innocent too, yet he must also stand trial? I want to talk to you and give you all the evidence which I now have to prove the above. What's wrong with you?

Read my blog: http://illinoiscorruption.blogspot.com/ for more details, as well as all the documents I have sent you in the past five years or so.

Why aren't you going after Lisa Madigan and other members of the real cabal of corruption in Illinois? As I told you, only a "Truth Commission" will really bring the light of day to corruption so it can no longer thrive. Why are you and the U.S. Attorney being so sloppy and ignoring your best witnesses such as Vernon Glass, Maisha Hamilton, me [Dr Linda Shelton] and so many others I can refer you too. The cabal has been destroying us as witnesses by falsely accusing us of crimes or defaming us with false accusation of mental illness. You and the U.S. Attorney are puppets of this cabal by your ignorance and actions ignoring us and feeding these false rumors.

Unbelievably, the jury was a group of well educated individuals who lived primarily in downtown Chicago. They saw through the lies of the prosecutor and the judge's unconstitutional rulings and came back with a verdict of NOT GUILTY. Then the judge gave up, said "what's the point" [of the arrest warrant he issued on 2-18-09 when I refused to come to the trial and disappeared".] He then quashed the arrest warrant.

So now I am home and I will pursue a suit for malicious prosecution, wrongful arrest, conspiracy to violate rights under color of law and violation of civil rights against the sham prosecutor IL Atty Gen Lisa Madigan who had no legal authority to usurp the powers of the State's Attorney and indict or prosecute anyone. The Constitution and laws in Illinois specify that ONLY the State's Attorney can decide charges, indict and prosecute most crimes. The AG is given authority by law to alone prosecute about 8 crimes such as gambling and environmental crimes. Medicaid vendor fraud is NOT one of them.

The SA was never involved in this case. Since the IL AG had no jurisdiction, the court had no jurisdiction. Therefore, the prosecutor and the judge lose absolute immunity. Lack of jurisdiction is the only reason they lose immunity. So I have a suit in federal court now against IL AG Madigan, Judge Pantle, Judge Alonso, and the State Police personal at the IL Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. I wish the US Attorney would get involved as the IL MFCU is so sloppy at investigations that they arrest the wrong people, destroy evidence against the real criminals and allow themselves to be used as a weapon against whistle blowers for political benefit.

I am astonished that you have not interviewed Dr. Maisha Hamilton Bennett, who was wrongfully convicted of Medicaid fraud, Naomi Jennings who was wrongfully convicted, me (Dr Linda Shelton) or Vernon Glass on the issue of wrongfully alleged Medicaid fraud in Illinois and the illegal and unconstitutional actions of the IL MFCU as well as the scheme by IL Government to deny mental health care to patients on Medicaid.

Denial of mental health care to those on Medicaid violates federal Medicaid law. This is a big economic issue as failure to treat mental health care increases crime, welfare costs, and Medicaid costs. You are contributing to economic failure by failing to properly deal with this issue! This is also an act of felony violation of civil rights and ADA violations by IL Government! Why aren’t you acting?

As you know, I am always available and ready to talk with you and discuss the evidence I mention above. Why don’t you do your job? Please share this with U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.

Thank you for your time in consideration of this matter.
Sincerely,

Linda Lorincz Shelton, Ph.D., M.D.

Why Dr Shelton has Chosen to be a Fugitive

2009-02-21T00:50:00.005-06:00

February 19, 2009
(from a safe site)

Hon. Eric Holder
United States Attorney General

Re: 1. Scheme by Illinois Officials to Deny Mental Health Care to Persons on Medicaid
2. Resulting Attacks on Whistle Blowers
3. Life & Death Situation

Dear Hon. AG Holder:

This is an urgent matter that requires immediate attention. For the past decade Illinois officials have instituted a scheme to preserve the Illinois budget and give profit to friends by violating the Federal Medicaid Code and eliminating mental health care from Medicaid.

Federal Judge Lefkow is helping an Iota to reverse this scheme by ruling in 2004 in a 12 yr class action suit, Memisovski v. Maram, that Illinois Medicaid Policies and Procedures violate the Federal Medicaid Code by denying access to care. Memisovski v. Maram, [Transfer Binder 2004-2] Medicare & Medicaid Guide (CCH) ¶ 301,515. However State judges are ignoring her ruling.

This ruling is based on federal law, 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)30(A)

“A state plan for medical assistance must – Provide such methods and procedures … and payment for care and services … at least to the extent that such care and services are available to the general population in the geographic area …”

State judges are letting doctors be criminally prosecuted fraudulently for providing mental health care!

Illinois, unlike the other 49 states, refuses to allow non-physicians to bill Medicaid fee-for-service. Ph.D. and M.S. degreed psychologists and psychiatric counselors are trained to administer and interpret psychological tests. Physicians are not so this rule is ludicrous. However, by limiting this and other services by non-physician drug addiction counselors, psychiatric social worker and nurse counselors, and psychologists counseling patients, Illinois has grotesquely and fraudulently accomplished the following:

1) A separate State Code “The Community Mental Health Center Act” is used and manipulated to only provide certification to outpatient centers that are owned by persons “connected” to officials (i.e. patronage discrimination, etc. – who support politicians with political donations, kick-backs, etc.) These contracts have been very limited by many means I would like to discuss with you. [fortunately recently a few centers are being formed without “connections”]

2) Illinois Medicaid wrote a Physician’s Handbook that illegally states that psychiatric services will only be paid for if supplied by a physician and NOT by a non-physician including psychological testing and counseling – it does NOT have the power of law! It is a contract.

NOTE that > 80 % of psychiatric and psychological evaluation and care is supplied by NON-physicians, so that denying access to non-physician psychiatric service providers essentially cuts off mental health services.

NOTE that Community Mental Health Centers may bill Medicaid under the center name without a physician name on invoice even for any kind of non-physician service.

So IF a non-physician works for a “connected” Community Mental Health Center they can make a living but they have to see ONLY NON-Medicaid private insurance patients if they want to make a living either in solo practice, group practice, or by working for a physician group. This also violates Federal Law in denying access to licensed qualified providers by the patients. Free choice of provider is guaranteed by State Medicaid Code so limiting mental health care to Medicaid patients violates State Code.

3) The Medicaid Service Provider Unit, where particularly new physicians and non-physician group call to get advice on technical aspects of billing, gives false or misleading information and purposely omits key information. They fail to tell the providers about the Community Mental Health Center Act. Therefore most providers are totally unaware, including university clinics that non-physicians actually can bill Medicaid (under the center name) in Illinois’ perverse billing system. They tell billing agents (often very naïve small independent contractors) they have to change the name of the invoices from non-physicians to a physician. Many billing agents naively therefore even without approval of the physicians in group practices have taken physician’s Medicaid provider numbers and put them on invoices so the groups can be paid for legitimate non-physician psychiatric or psychological services to Medicaid patients.

4) Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has usurped the power of the County State’s Attorneys (IL Constitution & Statutes do NOT permit the Attorney General to indict or prosecute Medicaid Fraud without review of evidence by States Attorney, and invitation, consent, and decision of charges by State’s Attorney). In order to claim she is “tough on fraud” and trying to collect through fines and penalties at sentencing money obtained through fraud, she is illegally prosecuting physicians and owners of psychiatric / psychological group practices for the act of providing mental health services to Medicaid patients using non-physicians – starting selectively with those that participated in exposure of corruption or who refused to pay kickbacks for “substitute billing”. Illinois officials are fraudulently, in violation of the Federal Medicaid Code, claiming that substitute billing, where doctors bill for services done by their qualified employees is a felony fraud crime. Billing agents are putting the doctor’s names on bills for services provided by their employees such as licensed psychologists even without the knowledge of the physicians.

5) Those who have been fraudulently prosecuted or are being fraudulently prosecuted are very intelligent and are fighting back from prison, on their own without attorneys (they have been bankrupted) or on the run, as best they can but have been blocked by incompetent or controlled federal judges who are NOT following the law or the decision in Memisovski. The 7th Circuit Judges (most of them) are either incompetent, biased against pro se or controlled by the cabal of corruption in Illinois.

6) Circuit Court of Cook County Judges have illegally ruled that Federal Law does not apply in these cases and that the State does NOT have to show intent to prove fraud, only that the physician’s provider number was used, even though Medicaid is a joint Federal / State program!

As you know, every dollar not spent on mental health care costs 3 + dollars in costs in ERs, hospitalization in public hospitals, inability to work (and pay taxes) and increases in welfare costs, as well as increases in crime (although most mental health patients are NOT involved in crimes.) The saying “penny wise, pound foolish” applies to mental health care costs and is of NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE. The costs to our economy is clearly HUGE! 1/10 workers in Illinois are employed by jails or prisons.

I am a disabled physician, former medical director of a psychiatry / psychological group practice (1 of a dozen, the others of whom have NOT been indicted but who did the same work, but were not whistle blowers like me!), victim of AG Madigan’s illegal prosecutions, indicted fraudulently, presently on trial (began 2-17-09 and will last two weeks) in the Circuit Court of Cook County, whose life has been threatened by corrupt officials and police, who are even influencing Marshals and staff at the Dirksen federal building with false rumors about my mental health, pleadings, and actions, so they hassle me and try to prevent me from filing legitimate court documents.
Please review the enclosed Motion to Remove my criminal case to federal court and the federal Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus I filed, 08 C 6216 and related case 08 C 4627 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. Judge Alonso is illegally stating this removal does NOT prevent him from convicting and sentencing me! He is snubbing his nose at federal law that mandates that a person may not be sentenced when a case is removed to federal court, unless the court remands it back to the State court. I have been beaten by officers of the CPD and Cook County Jail (Salemi, Johnson, Glindsey, Ruiz, Levy, and Connelly), my medications for complex medical and congenital problems withheld and have suffered very adverse consequences to my health.

Please review my web sites which I recently started so that I could publicly air the above as I have been unsuccessful at obtaining responses from the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Chicago U.S. Attorney, FBI, or the press.

http://illinoiscorruption.blogspot.com/ which describes unconstitutional rulings by Judge Alonso in my case in more detail, also contains my CV and “criminal history” but the true facts, written by me.
http://cookcountyjudges.wordprss.com/ which describes incompetent, illegal, or corrupt acts of judges.
http://drlindashelton.wordpress.com/ my personal history and philosophy and commentary on issues of the time.

As I fear for my life due to threats (including written ones on Internet I forwarded to FBI) of death or assault by Cook County Dept. of Corrections officers and the trial is essentially fixed by above unconstitutional rulings and failure of Federal Courts to follow the law and help I have fled and I am on the run. I am contemplating suicide as the situation seems hopeless or Cuba where doctors are valued. I don’t know what to do in this Kafkaesque situation of complete lawlessness by the courts and police, and the failure of the FBI to protect me even though I am a potential federal witness against the officers who assaulted me and others and are threatening me. (talk with AUSA Joan Laser to confirm that I gave a lot of evidence to her task force on civil rights violations at CCDOC).

A warrant has been issued for my arrest for not showing up at trial and for not following Judge Alonso’s orders to return the defense attorney’s case file to him. I had represented myself and I then hired Mr. Albukerk to represent me for a short time and then reasserted my right to represent myself. The judge has illegally barred me from representing myself, but I AM representing myself in federal court and I need the case file. Since I do NOT acknowledge jurisdiction by Judge Alonso in this void case, I do not recognize his order to return the case file.

I will surrender only to you or another high official if you agree to actually review the above noted documents and help me expose this scheme and exonerate the wrongfully convicted. I have devoted my life to other and this is my reward! I feel like a Jew in Nazi Germany. I am at the end of my rope and I want to die. I do not want to live in a totalitarian police state without the rule of law. I need assurance that the law will be followed, I will be heard, and this corruption will be eliminated. I need a guarantee that I will be taken to see my doctors in cardiology, pulmonology, and neurology at the UIC and given meds they prescribed to me. I need a guarantee law will be followed and I will be protected from officers who assaulted me, (See US Dist Court N Dist IL case no 09 C 105) and threatened me and NOT be held by the Cook County Jail. Hold me in federal custody if you insist on denying bail. Arrest those officers for threats against a federal witness (me).

For more information contact attorney J. Nicolas Albukerk 773 847-2600.

I will contact him periodically over the next few weeks until I have made my decision as to what should do, to find out your answer to my requests. I am innocent of all alleged crimes.
Please tell the President there is a lot I and fellow whistle blowers want to tell him about corruption in Illinois, but we are blocked from access to the administration and U.S. Attorney by middle managers and screeners (paralegals etc) who make sure info about corruption is withheld from the administration and DOJ.

Sincerely,
Linda Lorincz Shelton, Ph.D., M.D.
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United States District Court
For the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division

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Linda L. Shelton ) Motion for Removal
Movant )
) State Court No. 04 CR 17571
v. ) Circuit Court of Cook County
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State of Illinois ) Honorable Jorge Alonso
Respondent ) Judge Presiding

NOTICE OF REMOVAL

TO THE CLERK OF THE ABOVE-ENTITLED COURT:
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that defendant, Linda L. Shelton, Pro Se, hereby removes to this Court the state court action described below.

On July 15, 2004, an action was commenced in the Cook County Circuit Court, Illinois, entitled, State of Illinois, Plaintiff v. Vernon Glass, Linda Shelton, and Right Frame of Mind, Inc., Defendants, Case number 04 CR 17571

Defendant Shelton was indicted by a “special” grand jury in Cook County on July 15, 2004, mailed a notice to appear the next day, and appeared in the Circuit Court of Cook County on August 5, 2004 for arraignment.

The indictment is attached hereto as Exhibit “A”.

All process, orders, and pleadings have been served on the alleged Prosecutor, the Illinois Attorney General, previously in this pending criminal case and or with this notice.

Motion for Court to Order the Prosecutor to produce all process, orders, and pleadings, other than attached to this notice of removal, including the motion for removal and motions for stay of state court proceedings, as well as motion for leave to file late notice of removal and motion for in forma pauperis status with affidavit is attached. Defendant does not have the funds to accomplish this task.

The removal is authorized under 28 U.S.C. §1446(a) et seq. This action is a criminal action, the alleged acts over which, Medicaid Vendor Fraud, this Court has original jurisdiction under 18 U.S.C. 371 mail fraud, 18 U.S.C. 1341 filing false claims, and 18 U.S.C. 287 fraudulent claims, a violation of 18 U.S.C. 1347 health care fraud.

It is also authorized because defendant is charged with a crime under state law for action taken to carry out a duty, or to exercise an authority (billing Medicaid for mental health services) or entitlement, deriving from federal law, and the State Court by fiat is stating that “federal law does not apply.” Specifically defendant was involved with providing medical and psychiatric services under the joint Federal/State Medicaid program. The State Medicaid Code is a joint Federal and State program where State laws are dependent upon and coordinated with the Federal Code and any criminal prosecution REQUIRES consent of the Federal government through the Federal Code pertaining to State Medicaid Fraud Control Units. This pleading is being filed before trial has begun on the morning of the first day of trial, in as fast and timely fashion as possible after the recent unconstitutional rulings of the State Court.

Recent unconstitutional rulings of the State Court ensure that a fair trial and justice will be denied and that the Bill of Rights will be violated so that defendant is essentially barred from presenting her legitimate defenses and encumbered by lack of access to evidence that is exculpatory, all of which are federal rights including denial of:

1) due process at trial (refusal to enforce discovery, defendant never provided in discovery even one allegedly fraudulent invoice – the alleged instruments of the crime),
2) right to prompt justice, (speedy trial violated and Judge Alonso refuses to acknowledge this fact),
3) right to counsel (right to self-representation denied without legal basis),
4) right to notice of charges and a sufficient indictment (legally insufficient indictment),
5) right to be free from charges that do not exist at law and are a nullity (no crime alleged as alleged criminal acts not a crime per statutes and supremacy clause violated – also Judge Alonso ordered that “Federal Law does not Apply to this Case”),
6) right to be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt (Judge Alonso ruled on February 10, 2009 that intent is NOT an element of the charges in this case, fraud, as “ignorance of the law is no excuse.”),
7) right to be free of prosecution by a court without jurisdiction due to the indictment being brought by an alleged prosecutor who has no authority or jurisdiction to do so (Illinois Attorney General cannot legally usurp the powers of the Cook County State’s Attorney to indict and prosecute Medicaid vendor fraud because Illinois Constitution and Statutes give SOLE authority to county state’s attorney to indict and prosecute criminal charges),
8) right for compulsory process (key defense witnesses barred by court, as “laws are not relevant in this case as I have ruled that substitute billing is a crime” so defense expert on Medicaid billing barred from testimony and defendant barred from discussing or introducing any statutes, laws, or rules),
9) right to present a defense (court has barred state of mind defense in that defendant thought that contracted billing agent who held herself out to be an expert at complying with the law was billing correctly and defendant who was not responsible for any billing thought the CEO and administrators were translating her patient encounter forms and the other employed counselors’ patient encounter forms correctly into invoices, outrageous government conduct defense, affirmative defense of defendant’s billing agents being instructed to perform alleged criminal act of substitute billing by Illinois Medicaid Provider Service Unit employees without knowledge or involvement of defendant)

Wherefore, defendant, Linda L. Shelton prays that this action be removed to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, so that the federal issues can be adjudicated with fairness and justice according to the law and the United States Constitution.

DATED: February 17, 2009

By: Linda L. Shelton
Pro Se Counsel

Linda Lorincz Shelton, Ph.D., M.D.

Judge Jorge Alonso Overturns Federal Medicaid Code - Denies Medicaid Patients Mental Health Care!

2009-02-12T05:55:00.014-06:00

Dr Linda Shelton, who has devoted her life to service of others and particularly to providing medical and mental health services to the poor will be completely destroyed in two weeks with a false conviction for Illinois Medicaid Fraud simply for trying to help people on Medicaid obtain mental health care. Please read the following and help any way possible. I thank anyone who will help me.

This is a story epitomizing government corruption and greed, retaliation against whistle blowers, and gross government incompetence brought on by decades of fraud, patronage, and nepotism in Illinois.

Judge Alonso along with Judge Pantle before him have made rulings that are pervasively unconstitutional in denying due process, denying speedy trial, denying defense the ability to present defenses, allowing the alleged prosecutor to withhold key exculpatory evidence, in defiance extensively of U.S. Supreme Court decisions, in defiance of federal and state law for nearly a five year period that I have been deprived of any possibility whatsoever of a fair trial, which by law should not even be held because neither the alleged prosecutor nor the court have jurisdiction to prosecute acts that are legal. They should both be impeached.

Shelton has appealed to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to intervene, but the 7th Circuit does not always follow the law. You can read my appeal to them at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/12284277/SheltonFederal-Motion-for-Certificate-of-Appealability7th-Circuit-Court-of-Appealshabeas2009

Judge Jorge Alonso ruled on my pending criminal case where Shelton is charged with Medicaid fraud that “substitute billing is illegal”. This is where a doctor sends a bill to the insurance company for services performed by his employee such as the service of a nurse administering a vaccine, removing stiches or counseling a mother how to breast feed, a psychologist administering a psychological test, a drug addiction counselor counseling an addict, or a cast technician applying a cast. In my case the Illinois Attorney General claims that if a doctor bills Medicaid for counseling (for drug addiction, post-traumatic-stress disorder after rape, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, dementia, etc.) if the counseling or psychological testing was done by an employee and not directly by the physician then it is a felony crime.

If substitute, also known as incident to, billing is illegal than ALL doctors in Illinois are guilty of a felony crime of fraud! God Help Us! Judge Alonso is so eager to railroad me and convict me that he is violating his oath of office to uphold the laws of the land and the constitution. Due process, guaranteed by the Bill of Rights REQUIRES that he follow the law. He is BLATANTLY violating the law, either maliciously or ignorantly due to his arrogance, incompetence, bias to run and support the alleged prosecutor AG Lisa Madigan, or his ego.

Physicians are NOT trained to do psychological testing for personality disorders or mental illness. Psychologists at the master’s and Ph.D level are trained to do so. These tests are invaluable in helping determine the right diagnosis and the right course of treatment. Judge Alonso has ruled that those on Medicaid are not eligible for this type of evaluation and treatment as a result of his illegal and unconstitutional ruling.

Many non-physicians are licensed in Illinois and all states to provide Psychiatric & Psychological Services:

1. nurses 225 ILCS 65,
2. clinical psychologists 225 ILCS 15,
3. licensed social workers 225 ILCS 20,
4. licensed clinical professional counselor 225 ILCS 107,
5. licensed marriage and family therapist 225 ILCS 55 and 68 ILAC 1283

Judge Alonso’s illegal ruling denies all of these people the RIGHT to practice their profession and denies the citizens of Illinois on Medicaid the Right under the Federal Medicaid Act to access to care equivalent to the care provided in the community.

Federal Judge Joan Lefkow ruled in August 2004, at the end of a 12 year civil rights class action suit that “Illinois Medicaid Policies and Procedures are in Violation of the Federal Medicaid Code because they Deny Access to Care” to children on Medicaid. This ruling is applicable to all Medicaid patients but the ruling only applies to children. It needs to be expanded to cover all Medicaid patients.

The Federal Medicaid Code, 42 U.S.C. 1396A(a)(30)(A), [regarding adults and children covered under Medicaid and the EPSDT program] REQUIRES any State Medicaid program funded by the federal government to provide care equivalent to that obtainable from private insurers in the community to Illinois Medicaid clients.

Therefore, Judge Alonso’s ruling is unconstitutional, unfair, illegal, and amounts to his ruling to overturn the Federal Medicaid Code as well as Illinois Statutes licensing non-physician providers of mental health services. As > 80 % of mental health services are provided by non-physicians this essentially shuts out mental health services to all but a few in Illinois who are poor, because Judge Alonso has declared this service to be illegal.

The Federal Court and U.S. Attorney should intervene as this is illegal and also a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act in terms of discrimination. This is a felony civil rights violation called Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights under Color of Law. It is an impeachable offense as the judge is willfully and blatantly violating the law and the Constitution.

As to my case, I am charged with billing for mental health services never done and substitute billing for mental health services between June 2000 and April 2002 while "working" at Right Frame of Mind & Associates (RFOM). Over the last six months when I obtained access to the old business records for RFOM I discovered the fact is that the year before I started working for a group practice called RFOM, part-time providing chart review for quality, consultation about medical and psychiatric policies and procedures, and limited patient care, two woman, who were partners with the CEO and without the knowledge of the CEO, in 2000 fabricated hundreds of patient encounter forms (filled out by the provider - a doctors or a therapists as to what patient they saw, the diagnosis, and what service was provided), that are later translated into bills or invoices by the billing agent, for services they never did. These two women, Itadel Shalabi and Nareman Taha never met me as they were fired before I started working there in 2001.

I had major neurosurgery in July 2000 due to a congenital spinal problem that was crushing my spinal cord and leading progressively towards quadraplegia. I was incapacitated for six months and heavily sedated with narcotics and other drugs for much of that time. I had agreed in early 2000 at the request of the CEO to be one of a dozen or more part-time medical directors to oversee quality of care, screen for medical disorders mimicking psychiatric disorders, help train the counselors to write better notes (many were foreigners with good counseling skills but a little difficulty with English writing), advise the CEO on best medical practices and standard of care, and provide physician services to patients needing medications. I specifically told the CEO I would be unable to participate in the group until after I went through major surgery and a prolonged recover, if I survived and recovered.

I or my staff while I was in hospital gave the CEO my Medicaid provider number and other necessary documents so that the company's billing agent Louise Moore of Data Medical Works could sign me up with Medicaid as a provider for the group so that they could bill for my services when I began to work, if I recovered, in 2001.

Ms. Moore I never met at the time was a sweet lady who is ignorant of a lot of things. She held herself out to be a expert at medical billing and she signed a contract with the CEO in early 2000 to set the group up legally to bill Medicaid. Nothing she did was actually proper, but it was not her own fault. She failed to tell the CEO he would be paid more if he had his group certified as a community mental health center. She was totally ignorant of the concept of community mental health centers (or the drug addiction and alcohol treatment centers - another center with its own enabling State Statue). Payment received from Medicaid and the State for the same services would actually have been greater as Community Mental Health Services are paid an additional amount by contracting with agencies in the State such as the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Corrections, or other agencies for missed visits, training of employees, etc., that usually are not paid by Medicaid.

Under the Community Mental Health Service Act mental health groups that become certified bill Medicaid under the Center's name and not under the doctor's, psychologist's or therapist's name. They also contract with the Illinois prisons, and/or DCFS (Illinois Child Welfare) or other agencies to provide comprehensive mental health services. They must have at least one medical director, but the director is an administrator and doesn't have to see patients. Ph.D. psychologists or doctors or licensed mental health providers can supervise non-physician mental health service providers and bills can be sent in to Medicaid under the center's name for all these services.

Ms. Moore ignorantly thinking (falsely) that her contract allowed her to sign the names of Right Frame of Mind employees on to any form signed my name in August and December 2000, without my or the CEO's knowledge or consent, on a power of attorney form, an alternate payee form, and a blue cross/blue shielf electronic partner trading agreement form, which are all required to allow her to translate the patient encounter form to an electronic invoice and send it over the wire to BC/BS for adjudication, who then sends it to Medicaid, who then pays abut 30-40 cents on the dollar to the Alternate Payee (in this case RFOM).

Ms. Moore had spoken to the Medicaid Provider Service Unit about how to register the non-physician providers to bill Medicaid. She was told that non-physicians cannot bill Medicaid, was NOT told that a better way to bill was as a community mental health center or how to sign the group up as a community mental health center, and told that all bills (invoices) had to have a doctor's name as the provider.

Then Ms. Moore, without my or the CEO's knowledge changed the provider name in preparing invoices from Itadel Shalabi's and Nareman Taha's fraudulent patient encounter forms to my name so she could bill under my Medicaid Provider Number. I don't believe that Ms. Moore had ANY knowledge of the fraudulent nature of the Patient Encounter Forms made by these two women.

Therefore the ghost billing charge is a result of ID Theft, resulting from both fraud by these two women and a comedy of errors by incompetent people advising Ms. Moore in the Medicaid Provider Service Unit, as well as her own blundering ignorance. I am totally innocent having not participated in any way in generating these bills or in receiving or using the money paid for them by Medicaid.

Ms Moore unfortunately is also guilty of mass fraud in all the work she has done in the past decade or more. It is illegal for an insurance biller to bill Medicaid based on a contract where they are paid by the percentage of funds received form Medicaid by the provider. Ms. Moore charged around 8% of all billings. This is illegal and considered fraud as it ties the billers service, which has nothing to do with the medical care provided, with the doctor's service. Therefore, if she billed for a $100,000 procedure by a heart surgeon she would be paid $8,000 for sending in one bill, while when a family doctor bills $100, she would be paid $8. Providers of services to doctors are NOT ALLOWED to tie their services to the income from the actual medical provider. She MUST BILL ONLY by the piece of work such as $8 per bill. However, she has not been indicted for Medicaid Fraud and has not been sued by RFOM for Fraud in holding herself out to be an expert on billing when she was not.

The second aspect of the charge is substitute billing. I signed a Power of Attorney Form and Alternate Payee Agreement in August 2001. I was informed by the CEO sometime in late 2001 or early 2002 that the group was told by Ms. Moore that the counselors' and psychologists' services had to be billed under a doctor's name so that bills on patients I had seen, but for dates of service when they were seen by a non-physician were being billed under my name. I had assumed that the billing agent was competent and doing the billing properly. I had assumed that substitute billing for employees services in mental health care was as legal as billing Medicaid for my nurse giving a patient a vaccine. I had no idea at the time that anyone considered substitute billing illegal. I had no knowledge that Ms. Moore had actually sent in tens of thousands of dollars worth of bills under my name before August 1, 2001 based on documents she forged and the fraudulent patient encounter forms from the above two women. Therefore, I told the CEO that was fine. I was not involved in billing or administration of the group except to fill out patient encounter forms when I saw a patient. I had a good faith belief that all was well.

I had also had an agreement that being part-time the business would limit my patient panel to 200 patients as I did not feel that part-time doctors should supervise the care of any more patients than this number.

Since Judge Alonso has unconstitutionally and illegally ruled that substitute billing is illegal I will be found guilty and likely sentence to prison for 4-15 years, as well as forever lose my medical license and reputation, along with my livelihood, future, friends, health as medical care is inadequate in prison and I am disabled with several serious medical disorders, and will to live. I have informed the U.S. Attorney, FBI, at the time Senator Obama, Senator Durbin, and now Senator Burris along with a lot of Congressmen and other Senators and State legislators. I am receiving no assistance to solve this problem and restore mental health care in Illinois to those on Medicaid. The public should be outraged, but I do not have time to try to mobilize them.

In late 2001 Ms. Lovett, Ms. Collins and others from the Office of Inspector General Medicaid contacted the RFOM and claimed that they needed to review some charts as a "standard review of a new practice to help us comply with the rules". We completely complied and Ms. Lovett came out in 2001. She told the CEO the charts were well done and she would give us a report in 90 days. She lied. The CEO was actually very happy about this review because he wanted to make sure that our group practiced with the highest quality and had the best quality charting in the business. They never gave us a report or any feedback and their only response was to initiate a felony prosecution which culminated in the indictment of selectively me (and not one other of the dozen or so medical directors doing the same job - perhaps because only the CEO and I were whistle blowers about Illinois Governement Corruption and mistreatment of children in foster care and on Medicaid by the State) and the CEO.

After a number of months with NO feedback and strange comments from the Illinois State Police Medicaid Fraud Unit to the CEO (part of the Illinois Attorney General's Office), when the CEO had gone to inform them that he was concerned abut the integrity of our medical records because he had fired Itadel Shalabi and Nareman Taha for other administrative misconduct and inappropriate behavior with patients and they stole a hundred or so medical records (eventually returning parts of them) I began my own investigation of the rules of Medicaid. The State Police have not arrested them yet.

The CEO, I had learned over about a year was much more naive than I thought about running the business. I had assumed that he was qualified as an administrator and found out he was not. Finding out about the stolen charts and the lack of feedback from the OIG-Medicaid on this "routine review" concerned me. I was also concerned because in April 2002 the CEO told me that Ms. Collins at OIG-Medicaid had informed him to talk to Mr. Brown at Medicaid because there was a problem with the way our group was set up. Mr. Brown told the CEO that RFOM could not be a proper alternate payee under their rules and he apologized for misleading the CEO when the group was originally set up in 2000. He told the CEO that Medicaid could not continue to pay the group unless it was owned by the doctors. The group was the sole proprietorship of the CEO a master's degreed psychologist. The CEO said OK, hired an attorney, and asked several of the doctors to be the officers of the group as it changed to corporate status.

The corporation was set up so that the doctors would not actually profit from the corporation but were only paid by the hour for their work. The CEO was going to make a profit from managing the corporation. However, no profit was ever made as all the income went to overhead, particularly paying the counselors and doctors their salary and/or hourly rate. The CEO actually put in $100,000 of his own money to meet payroll before he closed the business as no viable financially. My total income from the group was about $5000 over all the time I worked there from 2001 to 2003. I always told the CEO to pay the other employees first and my work was only very limited and part-time.

Beginning in 2002, I researched the Federal and State Medicaid rules, policies, and laws so that I would be able to meet my fiduciary duty to participate in running the corporation at least from an advisory point of view. I discovered the following and this is why I told the CEO in mid 2002 and maintain this belief, that substitute billing is perfectly legal and actually REQUIRED by the Federal Medicaid Code as well as NOT PROHIBITED by Illiniois Statutes or Illinois Adminstrative Rules:

Federal and State Medicaid laws are extensive, complex, and immensely confusing. The State of Illinois is misusing them to indict doctors, psychologists, administrators of psychiatric and psychological practices for “Medicaid Fraud” when they are actually following federal law and providing needy services including counseling, drug treatment, suicide prevention, etc. Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Jim Ryan before her have targeted especially those groups run by whistle blowers, in order to falsely claim they are tough on fraud, to prevent Illinois from paying the bill for mental health services for the poor and needy on Medicaid, and reduce the bottom line.

A claim of “tough on fraud” will help AG Lisa Madigan win election as Governor. Failure to provide mental health care including drug addiction and alcoholism treatment leads to increased crime as drug addicts, alcoholics, and those that are so out of touch and mentally ill find alternatives to legitimate work to feed their habits or survive. Failure to provide adequate mental health care at the front end leads to much higher costs in the long run.

Code of Federal Regulations 42 CFR 414.34 states:
“Payment for services and supplies incident to a physician’s service”“(b) Services of non[-]physicians that are incident to a physician’s service. Services of non physicians that are covered as incident to a physician’s service are paid as if the physician had personally furnished the service. "

Clearly Judge Alonso's statement is FALSE.

United States Code42 U.S.C. § 1396d(a)(5)(A)
requires reimbursement for “physicians’ services furnished by a physician.”

Code of Federal Regulations 42 C.F.R. § 440.50
The HHS rule implementing the Medicaid Act defines “physician services” to include services provided:“(a) within the scope of practice of medicine or osteopathy as defined by State law; and(b) by or under the personal supervision of an individual licensed under State law to practice medicine or osteopathy.”

Congress further authorized substitute billing under Medicaid for services furnished:“by, or incident to the services” of another physician. Physicians also routinely bill for services of another physician who is covering for them when they are unavailable.

Federal Regulation66 Fed. Reg. 55268
HHS makes clear in its preamble to this rule that it does not restrict the type of auxiliary personnel who may perform a given “incident to” service: “We deliberately used the term any individual so that the physician (or other practitioner), under his or her discretion and license, may use the service of anyone ranging from another physician to a medical assistant.”

Code of Federal Regulations42 CFR 411.15

“Particular services exclude from coverage” specifically states that:

“(m) (3) Exceptions. The following services are not excluded from coverage:…

•(iii) Nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist services……

•(v) Qualified psychologist services,”

FEDERAL PREEMPTION SUSTAINED BY FEDERAL 2ND CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL

•A Federal suit for a psychiatrist against the New York Medicaid Program based on its refusal to approve Medicaid was agreed to for reimbursement for services provided by his employees under his supervision. Yapalater v. Bates, 494 F. Supp. 1349 (S.D.N.Y. 1980), aff’d, 644 F.2d 131 (2d Cir. 1981), cert. denied, 455 U.S. 908, 102 S. Ct. 1255 (1982).

•The court determined that the federal Medicaid rule at 42 C.F.R. §440.50 defining “physician services” unquestionably included supervisees other than the physician, just as the same rule must apply here to vacate Plaintiffs’ indictments. Id. at 1363-64.

State Medicaid must Provide Services 42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)30(A)

•Federal Code clearly mandates that State Medicaid plans must provide services to recipients of Medicaid and payment to their service providers equivalent to care and services provided to the general population by private insurers

•Private insurance pays for psychiatric services provided by counselors and psychologists

•RFOM CEO and other employees, besides the physicians were licensed counselors, nurses, psychological therapist, or social workers, per CEO

42 U.S.C. 1396a(a)30(A)

“A State plan for medical assistance must –Provide such methods and procedures relating to the utilization of, and the payment for, care and services available under the plan . . . to assure that payments are ... sufficient to enlist enough providers so that care and services are available under the plan … at least to the extent that such care and services are available to the general population in the geographic area",

Ambiguous State Laws Must be Interpreted to Conform to Fed Law

•The Federal 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has also construed ambiguous state regulations to conform to federal Medicaid requirements,

•an approach worth revisiting here with respect to Sections 140.411 and 140.413 of the Illinois Administrative Code.

•See Evanston Hosp. v. Hauck 1 F.3d 540 (7th Cir.1993), cert. denied, 510 U.S. 1091 (1994).

I (SHELTON) CONTINUES HER OWN INVESTIGATION OF BILLING PRACTICES – 2002-2005

Shelton discovers that Physician Medicaid Manual has inconsistencies, in one place stating bills for employees billed under doctor’s name, and in another place stating that no psychiatric services can be billed for non-physicians, yet in another place stating that non-physicians may provide psychiatric services and Medicaid may be billed. In another section it states that mental health services in hospital by non-physicians should be billed by the hospital or the physician.

I also discovered the Illinois Community Mental Health Center Code.

Illinois Administrative Code (IAC)89 IAC 140.12

“Services Not Covered by Physician”DOES NOT MENTION psychiatric services by non-physicians

Illinois Administrative Code89 IAC 140.400

(a)“Payment to Practitioners”“2) A practitioner may bill only for services he or she personally provides or which are provided under his or her direct supervision in his or her office by his or her staff.”

Illinois Administrative Code89 IAC 140.411

“Covered Services by Physicians”“The Department shall pay physicians for the provision of services not otherwise excluded which are:. . .c) Provided by the physician or by a member of the physician’s staff under the physician’s direct supervision

Illinois Administrative Code89 IAC 140.413

“Limitations on Physician Services”that “limitations” on physician’s services include that psychiatric services will be paid for if they are “. . . provided by a physician . . .” [It does not exclude non-physician services and it is a reasonable inference to conclude the definition of "physician" include the services of non-physician employees, under the doctor's supervision as defined in 89 IAC 140.400 & 411]

How does this negate previous definition of “physician services” which include incident services by his employees?

UNCONSTITUTIONAL STATE CLAIM

State falsely claims use of word “physician” in 89 IAC 140.413 negates definition of“physician services”, which includes incident services by physician’s employees as defined in 89 IAC

140.400(a), 89 IAC 140.411

State falsely claims that federal law does not apply and statutory construction rules don’t applyJudge Alonso previously illegally ruled that the Federal Medicaid Code does not apply in this case despite the fact the Illinois Medicaid is a joint federal/state program partially funded by the Federal Medicaid Code!

IAC TOO VAGUE

•Criminal Laws are invalid if too vague to understand ("void for vagueness doctrine")

•Illinois Administrative Code too vague in sections:89 IAC 140.12,89 IAC 140.400,89 IAC 140.411, and89 IAC 140.413Illinois Administrative Code

•Why should 89 IAC 140.413 have more weight than 89 IAC 140.12?

•Why should the definitions of physician services in and 140.411 not apply to the term “physician” in 89 IAC 140.413?

STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION RULES REQUIRE (Regarding interpretation of conflictin State Statutes)Specific Controls over General

•89 IAC 140.400 & 89 IAC 140.411more specific “physician services” includes non-physician employee services

•89 IAC 140.413 general word “physician” with no definition of what services this includes cannot by exclusion negate previous more specific definition of services provided by physician

Federal Law Rules

42 CFR 414.34

Services by Physician’s staff are billed as IF the Physician Performed the Services Himself
If State and Federal Law conflicts, Federal Law RulesDue to the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution

FEDERAL LAW REQUIRES PAYMENT FOR EPSDT SERVICES

•The Federal Medicaid Code requires that State Medicaid programs pay for periodic mental health screening and treatment of any defects in mental health for children under 21:

• 42 USC 1396d “Definitions For purposes of this chapter

• (r) Early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment services

••The term ‘early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment services’ means the following items and services:

• (1) Screening services –

• (A) which are provided –

•(ii) at such other intervals, indicated as medically necessary, to determine the existence of certain physical and mental illnesses or conditions;

• . . .

•(5) Such other necessary health care, diagnostic services, treatment, and other measures described in subsection (a) of this section to correct or ameliorate defects and physical and mental illnesses and conditions discovered by the screening services, whether or not such services are covered under the State plan.”

STATE LAW REQUIRES PAYMENT FOR EPSDT SERVICES

•89 IAC 140.485 states:

•“Healthy Kids Program

•Program Description–The Healthy Kids Program is the Early and Periodic Screening Diagnostic and Treatment Program [EPSDT] mandated by the Social Security Act (see 42 U.S.C. 1396a(43), 1396d(4)(B)(Supp. 1987)). The goals of the program are to:

•Improve the health status of Medicaid-eligible children ages birth through 20 years through the provision of preventive medical care and early diagnosis and treatment of conditions threatening the child’s health

•…

•8) Treatment. The Department shall pay for necessary medical care (see Section 140.2), diagnostic services [i.e. psychological testing], treatment or other measures medically necessary … to correct or ameliorate defects, physical or mental illnesses….”,

•The Illinois Public Aid Code [AKA Medicaid Act], 305 ILCS 5/19(f) requires that EPSDT screening and mental health treatment be provided to children in the Medicaid program:

•“5/19. Healthy Kids Program

•(f) Covered Medical Services. The Illinois Department shall provide coverage for all necessary health care, diagnostic services, treatment and other measures to correct or ameliorate defects, physical and mental illnesses, and conditions whether discovered by screening services or not for all children eligible for Medical Assistance under Article V of this Code.”

Dr Shelton was a Medicaid Registered EPSTD Provider

Therefore ANY REASONABLE person would conclude that the law permits substitute billing for mental health services whether it be another physician covering for the doctor, or a non-physician supervised by the doctor or her colleagues. If you don't agree than the void for vagueness doctrine should clearly negate and prevent any criminal charges for substitute billing.

God Help Me! I am innocent and destroyed. This is my reward for devoting my life to service particularly of the poor and needy. If you want to help, contact the Illinois Reform Committee and flood them with letters. Contact the U.S. Attorney and FBI and flood them with letters. Contact your legislators and Congressmen and flood them with letters. Come to the trial on February 17, 2009 which will last two weeks and fill the gallery so that the judge knows your opinion. Contact the press. Donate to my legal fund anything possible. I need tens of thousands of dollars. Shelton Legal Fund, C/O Albukerk & Associates, 3025 W. 26th St. 2nd Floor, Chicago, IL 60623. 773 847-2600 He is doing the best he can defending me under the complete lawlessness of the Circuit Court of Cook County.

Thank you if you help.

Will Blagojevic Sing?

2009-02-12T05:13:00.004-06:00

IF Blago sings Democrats and Republicans will fall. How do you think his father-in-law Alderman Mell keeps getting re-elected after his district has turned so Republican? Why do you think Blago appointed the King of all corruption, Jim Thompson, as Chief of his transition team when he took office?

When there's corruption the difference between Republicans and Democrats disappears. They are a cabal of corruption that crosses party lines. Vrdolyak and Burke are the Kingpins of the older generation and Orlando Jones was the Kingpin of the younger generation. When they sing everything will be exposed. Vrdolyak will not sing as he knows how the mob deals with that. After indictment a bullet walked into Jone's head. I don't believe he killed himself. Sooo he won't sing.

Blago is small potatoes, just a pawn in the chess game, taught by the older generation and doing things the way that EVERY politician in Springfield, Cook County, and Chicago have been doing for decades.

Corruption will ONLY be vastly reduced when it sees the light of day. When Illinois has a "truth commission" where amnesty is given to those who fully confess, it will be exposed, the fear of retaliation for confessing will disappear, people from all over from the secretaries at IL Secr. of State office and the Cook County Sheriff will confess that they were forced to sell tickets to fund raisers on public time,the Cook County Sheriff's staff will confess to campaigning by polling places on public time, almost every vendor in Illinois will confess to paying a 10% kickback into political funds to keep the machine going including the guy who sells baloney to the prisons, etc.

Until the fear is reduced which is pervasive in Illinois we can indict thousands of people and they will be replaced by thousands more and corruption will continue. Back room deals, nepotism, kickbacks, patronage, etc will continue until corruption sees the light of day. "Truth Commissions" worked in South Africa and they can work in Illinois. It will be a LOT LESS COSTLY to have a truth commission and move on than to endlessly indict and prosecute literally hundreds of people, which is a drop in the bucket considering the tentacles and spider web of corruption in Illinois.

I don't believe Blagojevic is a kingpin, but I believe he knows a lot and can take down many if he sings. The risks for singing however are great. Ask Orlando Jones, John Stroger Sr's godson, who carried out the orders for patronage hiring, fraud, and corruption.

Illinois Appellate Judge Sheila O'Brien Brings Court into Disrepute

2009-02-10T17:13:00.004-06:00

My case is a conviction for aggravated battery of a correctional officer.

In fact, I had been assaulted and battered by Cook County Department of Corrections Sergeant Anthony Salemi on May 16, 2005. He falsified his records, and he knowingly wrongfully filed a criminal complaint against Plaintiff falsely alleging I attacked him, in retaliation for me complaining about the Cook County Department of Corrections violating my civil rights. (Denying Constitutional and statutory rights to medical care, access to courts, free brief phone call to family and attorney)

I was in jail for a 30 day sentence for criminal contempt because I told Judge Kathleen Pantle that she was violating the law in the pending fraudulent case involving a fraudulent charge of Medicaid vendor fraud (trial scheduled for February 17, 2009 rm 207 criminal court building 26th and California - all are invited) and had no jurisdiction and then said I was leaving to preserve the issue for appeal and she found me in contempt when I turned around and attempted to leave the courtroom quietly.

Sgt. Salemi stated that when he entered my cell, after sending away the female unit officer (in violation of rules that male officers may not enter female cells alone except in emergency), I attacked him while in a wheelchair and forcing my way through the door by ramming him with my wheelchair “skinning his shins” and then after this knocked him down and he stood up, “kicking him in the chest with my RIGHT leg.” This is despite the fact that I have a partial right hemiparesis with impairment of my RIGHT leg so that I can not kick it with force above the waist, the wheelchair was broken and difficult to move, I have congenital injury to the spine causing life-long weak arms and shoulders making it difficult to move the wheelchair forcefully, and I was on the sixth day of a dry hunger strike (protesting denial of access to courts and denial of medical care), intensely dehydrated and unable to stand for more than a few moments due to weakness from the dehydration. My physicians gave unrebutted testimony affirming these facts. The state had no expert witnesses or physician witnesses.

Sgt. Salemi lunged in, grabbed my neck choking me, then flung me out of the wheel chair while pulling the wheelchair from under me causing large contusions to the back and inner thighs (3 X 5 and 4 X 6 inches) as well as bruises on my arm in the form of his fingers, contused knee upon which I landed, and a severely contused toe that got caught in the wheelchair. All of this was documented and the jury ignored it.

I was wrongfully convicted because of a biased jury. The jury became biased because of extreme Nifong-like prosecutorial misconduct by Assistant States Attorneys Andrew Dalkin and John Maher, and by outrageous denial of due process and abuse of judicial discretion by Judge Joseph Kazmierski, all of which grossly denied me a fair trial.

I was illegally sentenced to prison instead of probation, in violation of Cunningham v. California, 127 S. Ct. 856 (2007), and the Statutes of the State of Illinois.

At CCDOC and IDOC I was illegally abused and punished for refusing to walk (IDOC staff falsely claiming I was faking my multiple medical conditions and physical handicap) during the reception process, including a life-threatening assault on me with an ammonia inhalant (purportedly given to prove I was faking a collapse and asthma attack, but which was NOT documented in records at IDOC), but which exacerbated the attack, caused brief unconsciousness and is contraindicated in asthma, as well as denial of medical care. The IDOC staff are attempting to conceal the documents about Plaintiff’s reception events at IDOC in order to cover-up their official misconduct and ADA violations, in refusing to release the reception summary to me.

The habeas petition contains all the details of the perjured testimony by Sgt. Salemi and other Sheriff officers as well as the proof of my innocence and their falsification of records. My habeas petition contains all pertinent references to the transcripts and record on appeal and all issues on appeal.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/10325794/Shelton-Federal-Petition-for-Writ-of-Habeas-Corpus-Aggravated-Battery-2009

The Illinois Appellate Court 1st District has now four times denied my motions to compel the court reporters to prepare a free set of transcripts and file them with the court so that my appeal can move forward. The court reporters have refused this direct order of both the trial court and appellate courts. Judge Sheila O’Brien denied another such motion on 2-5-09. This is unconstitutional and a violation of her oath of office that amounts to felony theft of honest services and conspiracy to violate my civil rights under color of law.

Judge O’Brien is OBLIGATED by U.S. Supreme Court previous rulings (stare decisis) to ensure that I am NOT prevented from filing transcripts for my appeal. Her rulings denying my motions to compel the court reporters are void as unconstitutional. Failure to enforce her court’s and the trial court's orders is a dereliction of duty and her oath of office that amounts to the federal crime of theft of honest services. It also is a deliberate attempt to impede my appeal which is a Constitutional right. This amounts to the federal felony crime of violation of civil rights under color of law and conspiracy to violate civil rights under color of law.

Judge O’Brien has brought the court into disrepute because of her incompetent, and/or purposeful, and/or malicious in violation of the Constitution’s mandate that convicted persons have a right to an appeal. She should be impeached.

Federal Judge Coar agrees with this in general because he has ruled that the actions of the Illinois Appellate Court amount to a State willful waiver of their right to insist that I exhaust state remedies (appeals) before proceeding with a Federal Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus to overturn this wrongful conviction based on actual innocence, as well as grotesque prosecutorial and judicial misconduct.

Please consider assisting me with donations to my legal fund and showing up for trial on 2-17-09 on the last charge I am defending. 26th and California in Chicago Criminal Courthouse. The trial will last 5-8 days. Judges tend to follow the law more and make less unconstitutional rulings when they have an audience. That is why I promote the concept of court watchers. Juries tend to have less bias against the Defendant when they see family and others showing the defendant support by filling the gallery.

Unfortunately my family is small, ill, and distant and no one can come to court. Any support in any fashion in my legal, political, and personal health struggles is appreciated.

Illinois Reform Commission Should become Truth Commission and Corruption Will Falter

2009-01-31T09:09:00.003-06:00

Corruption is so ingrained in Illinois politics that thousands of indictments won't change anything. Corruption croses party lines and invades the 1/10 Illinoisans who work for the State, Counties, or local governments.

There have already been hundreds of convictions and as the corrupt are ousted more step into replace them. Until corruption sees the light of day; until back room deals are exposed and stopped; until meetings can no longer be confidential or "executive"; until corruption also known as patronage or inherited office in Illinois is exposed, corruption will continue.

All contracts will continue to require 10% kickbacks to political funds. Whistle blowers will be defamed, falsely arrested, wrongfully convicted, and destroyed. Political offices will be inherited.
The only solution is a truth commission. Like in South Africa if people are given immunity for confessing fully their involvement in fraud, patronage, corruption, back-room dealings, etc., then fear of losing a job, not getting a promotion, or retaliation will be eliminated. Thousands will testify to the true workings of Illinois government and will feel better for it. Faith in government will be restored.

The masses will come out of the woodwork and state how they have been coerced to pay kickbacks, campaign on government time, put campaign signs in their lawns even if they didn't like the candidate, and intimidate and harass all that tried to expose them.

This will cost a LOT less and take a LOT less time, than endless indictments, accusations, and status quo. Fear is the driving force behind corruption in Illinois. The light of day will destroy it.
I endorse the reform commission. The inspector generals and internal affairs offices, etc., are part of the corruption. They don't reveal their findings. Everything is confidential. They keep the facts in the dark and are therefore only able to cover up instead of expose.

State's Attorney Anita Alvarez Condones Nifong-Like Prosecutorial Misconduct - Federal Judge Coar Rules IL Appellate Court Violates Rights to Appeal

2009-01-21T10:26:00.012-06:00

I, Dr. Linda Shelton, was wrongfully convicted of aggravated battery to a correctional officer on December 3, 2007. I have tried to appeal but the Illinois Appellate Court has illegally impeded my appeal. Fortunately Federal Judge Coar has agreed with me and my case is now before him on a petition for writ of habeas corpus. I am optimistic that it will be granted. Cook County State's Attorney Alvarez should withdraw the charges and ask for the case to be expunged due to extreme Nifong-like prosecutorial misconduct and perjury of the state's witnesses as well as actual innocence. She is defending the state in the habeas proceedings. She should be held accountable if she fails to acknowledge these facts. See:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/10325794/Shelton-Federal-Petition-for-Writ-of-Habeas-Corpus-Aggravated-Battery-2009

Judge Coar in federal district court on 1/14/09 agreed with my petition for writ of habeas corpus that by refusing to enforce the trial courts order for the court reporter to prepare transcripts and file them with the court clerk, the state has impeded my right to a direct appeal and collateral state remedies and therefore has waived their right to insist that I exhaust state remedies. This is allowed under 28 U.S.C. section 2254 (b)(1)(B)(ii) and Lane v. Richards, 957 F.2d 363, 365 (7th Cir. 1992).

This means he has ruled that Appellate Judge Sheila O'Brien and P. Scott Neville Jr. by denying my multiple motions to compel court reporters to follow the trial court orders to prepare and file my transcripts with the court clerk, have committed an act that amounts to the state waiving their right to insist that I exhaust state remedies before seeking a fed writ of habeas corpus. This is also a violation of their oaths of office.

Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez has been ordered to reply within 21 days and reply to my motion for stay of sentence (parole) within 20 days.

How Best to Achieve Change and Throw Out Corruption?

2009-01-17T08:39:00.007-06:00

THE POWER OF SELFLESSNESS, NON-VIOLENCE, UNITY, AND SACRIFICE

As I've said elsewhere, I don't believe Illinois will change and disgard corruption, patronage, and bribery until the U.S. Attorney holds "Truth Commissions" like in South Africa, to encourage confession, transparency, forgiveness, and moving on. However, Rev. King has handed us a path that if we truly follow we can move mountains!

Martin Luther King Jrs. birthday is January 19. He has been a driving force in my life. Most people think his “I have a dream” speech is his best, and it certainly is the most famous.

http://www.mlkonline.net/dream.html

But, I am most profoundly moved and inspired by the last speech he made on the night of April 3, 1968. In this speech he expresses the POWER of SELFLESSNESS and NON-VIOLENCE.

See: http://www.mlkonline.net/promised.html

“For when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory. . . .

But either we go up together, or we go down together. . . .

But I’m going to tell you what my imagination tells me. It’s possible that these men were afraid. You see, the Jericho road is a dangerous road. I remember when Mrs. King and I were first in Jerusalem. We rented a car and drove from Jerusalem down to Jericho. And as soon as we got on that road, I said to my wife, “I can see why Jesus used this as a setting for his parable.” It’s a winding, meandering road. It’s really conducive for ambushing. You start out in Jerusalem, which is about 1200 miles, or rather 1200 feet above sea level. And by the time you get down to Jericho, fifteen or twenty minutes later, you’re about 2200 feet below sea level. That’s a dangerous road. In the day of Jesus it came to be known as the “Bloody Pass.” And you know, it’s possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still around. Or it’s possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure. And so the first question that the Levite asked was, “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?”.
That’s the question before you tonight. Not, “If I stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to all of the hours that I usually spend in my office every day and every week as a pastor?” The question is not, “If I stop to help this man in need, what will happen to me?” “If I do no stop to help the sanitation workers, what will happen to them?” That’s the question.
Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation. And I want to thank God, once more, for allowing me to be here with you.

You know, several years ago, I was in New York City autographing the first book that I had written. And while sitting there autographing books, a demented black woman came up. The only question I heard from her was, “Are you Martin Luther King?”

And I was looking down writing, and I said yes. And the next minute I felt something beating on my chest. Before I knew it I had been stabbed by this demented woman. I was rushed to Harlem Hospital. It was a dark Saturday afternoon. And that blade had gone through, and the X-rays revealed that the tip of the blade was on the edge of my aorta, the main artery. And once that’s punctured, you drown in your own blood–that’s the end of you.

It came out in the New York Times the next morning, that if I had sneezed, I would have died. Well, about four days later, they allowed me, after the operation, after my chest had been opened, and the blade had been taken out, to move around in the wheel chair in the hospital. They allowed me to read some of the mail that came in, and from all over the states, and the world, kind letters came in. I read a few, but one of them I will never forget. I had received one from the President and the Vice-President. I’ve forgotten what those telegrams said. I’d received a visit and a letter from the Governor of New York, but I’ve forgotten what the letter said. But there was another letter that came from a little girl, a young girl who was a student at the White Plains High School. And I looked at that letter, and I’ll never forget it. It said simply, “Dear Dr. King: I am a ninth-grade student at the Whites Plains High School.” She said, “While it should not matter, I would like to mention that I am a white girl. I read in the paper of your misfortune, and of your suffering. And I read that if you had sneezed, you would have died. And I’m simply writing you to say that I’m so happy that you didn’t sneeze.”

And I want to say tonight, I want to say that I am happy that I didn’t sneeze. Because if I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been around here in 1960, when students all over the South started sitting-in at lunch counters. And I knew that as they were sitting in, they were really standing up for the best in the American dream. And taking the whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. If I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been around in 1962, when Negroes in Albany, Georgia, decided to straighten their backs up. And whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can’t ride your back unless it is bent. If I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been here in 1963, when the black people of Birmingham, Alabama, aroused the conscience of this nation, and brought into being the Civil Rights Bill. If I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have had a chance later that year, in August, to try to tell America about a dream that I had had. If I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been down in Selma, Alabama, to see the great movement there. If I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been in Memphis to see a community rally around those brothers and sisters who are suffering. I’m so happy that I didn’t sneeze.

….

And then I got into Memphis. And some began to say that threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?

Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.”

My own grandfather was a Baptist minister, Rev. William Tatter, and he was of like mind to the Rev. King. I grew up emotionally and philosophically by the words of Rev. King and my grandfather and from those days committed my very soul to the concepts of selflessness, non-violence, unity, and sacrifice for others are ALWAYS more important than self. I hope you join me in this commitment that is also so well embodied in our founding father’s statement in the Declaration of Independence: “[W]e mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor."

For the Declaration of Independence see:

http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index.htm

I renew the commitment of our founding fathers and I renew my acceptance of the guidance of Rev. King and my grandfather today and hope you will join me.

Dr. Linda Shelton physically threatened by Officers

2009-01-12T21:34:00.006-06:00

Please Avenge me and Fight for Justice to be Brought Against Perpetrators if you hear I have been killed or severely injured by police or sheriff staff.

I have received many threats over the last eight years in retaliaton for my activism behind the scenes and now public whistle blower activities. I wish now to share them with you. So far the FBI and US Attorney are doing nothing to protect me. They are slow and inept, lacking sufficient staff, green in many ways, with warped priorities. I don't expect their help. I do expect a short life. All of this information has been forwarded to the US Attorney and the FBI.

I answer questions on a commercial web site set up by companies to sell services to inmates and their families. The Cook County Jail web site is very useless and poorly done. I believe ALL inmates and their families deserve humane treatment and answers. So I answer as many questions as possible as a public service at this web site, where I write under the name "Linda". They have even impersonated me and used the name "Linda":

http://www.cookcojail.com/questions.php

The following are copies of posts on this web site threatening me with physical harm by officers pretending to be family of inmates or released inmates:
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This Linda lady who all you people are writing to and asking questions is a complete fraud. Look at how many times she has been charged and locked up. She has on numerous occassions assaulted many law enforcement officials and has a rap sheet longer than your arm. This lady is not stable she has no life or purpose. She stays with drama and propoganda in her life. People wake up if you need answers about Cook County go to the official web site. I work at the jail and have come into contact with Linda Shelton she is violent uncontrolable and very abusive both verbally and physically. You Ms. Shelton are a SHAM!!!! because the next time you get locked up, and there will be a next time, if you act they way you have been you will be delt with firmly and swiftly. just know that Ms. Shelton they now have tasers and pepper spray for people just like you. Remember, don't forget you heard it here first.
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AugistineMonday, January 12, 2009
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Officer "Augistine" - Yes,I will remember your lies and your threats of physical harm. I am forwarding them to the FBI and US Attorney. It is a federal felony to threaten a federal witness. For those who want to know who I am, I have nothing to hide. I am a non-violent pacifist, disabled, and a federal witness agaisnt corrupt officers and officials at the jail. Any officers that wish to confess and perhaps get leniency, I suggest you contact Asst. US Attorney Joan Laser of the US Attorney's task force on civil rights violations in Chicago. I also suggest any inmates who have been illegally abused with unnecessary injections of drugs to shut them up or retaliate against them should contact the Illinois Human Rights Authority - Director Parks. They will be coming to the jail again to again investigate the illegal use of drugs against inmates which is a criminal violation of Illinois Law. It reminds me of what the Soviets used to do to dissidents and activists who patriotically fought for their rights and their country. Nazi's like you Officer "Augustine" will be taken down!
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E-mail to FBI from Shelton:

Please investigate the following from the web site listed as follows and inform AUSA Joan Laser. I believe the posters are guards pretending to be inmates. I have also received other death threats by phone in the past - "you better stop what you're doing or you're going to end up in the Cal Sag Canal" and "you better look under your car before you start it." One officer in Evergreen Park told me to watch my back as the 80% of the officers who back me up can't do anything against the "7 thugs the chief has assigned to get you any way he can."

I don't care if they kill me or hurt me. Just know if this happens you could have prevented it! I am going to post this on my web sites to document your failure to protect me or to act on the evidence I gave you. Dr. Hamilton is still wrongfully incarcerated at CCDOC now on her eighth month. The same applies to her.

I don't know why I bother to tell you all this. I suppose I just want it documented when something happens to me. I'm appalled at your lack of action. We live in a totalitarian police state and you're part of it. I know I can't trust you.

http://www.cookcojail.com/

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If you go to jail and throw yourself on the floor,pretend like you can't breath, and all together fake poor health (ie. walk with a cane) can you get to a medical dorm ? I knew this Dr. that claimed the guards beat her and her judge put false contempt charges on her and all she did was fake a bunch of illnesses to presude people to release her from jail. I even heard she gets on this website and give people bad advice...best bet is to consult an attorney before you take advice from some crack pot doctor.
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T-Bone. I am the doctor you are talking about. I did not fake anything. They denied my medications and tortured me. I underwent a heart procedure in August. I have congenital spinal stenosis and had neurosurgery on my spine where they broke all the bones and reconstructed them. I now walk with a walker due to the injuries received in prison that worsened my conditions. I have a very severe form of asthma due to me being caught in an environmental accident/gasoline spill and overcome by fumes which damaged my lungs. I suggest you read my blogs including: illinoiscorruption.blogspot.com and the links to my other blogs. I am a federal witness against corrupt officials and officers at the jail. I don't know where you get your information, but you clearly are the person who should not write on this site. If you this garbage info from the officers then you clearly are just being manipulated to further defame me. I suggest you also go to the federal court clerk's office and look up the suits I have against state officials and police. If you want also go on the Circuit Court Clerk's web site and look up my cases in Chancery and Law Division against IDOC for torture, violations of ADA, excessive force, violation of civil rights, failure to provide medical care, etc. Perhaps you are even a staff member at the CCDOC who is trying to discredit me!
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By the way T-Bone, I turn over copies of all such false statements against me and death threats to the US Attorney. It is a federal felony to threaten a federal witness as others have done on this site. I can also subpoena the records of this web site and sue you for defamation of characteer. See you in court!
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JESUS..... Lemme just say a few things here.... Try working there. you have to remember 99% of the people coming and going are assholes,un educated, and just f*ckin rude w/ no respect. Therefore unfortunatly some of that nasty attitude gets reflected back to the whole 1%. Brittany, his bond is 2000.00.. Linda, either you work here or you spend too much time here. As for medical attention, 75% of these inmates do not take care of themselves in the world... they come to the County, and CRY and BITCH about everything from, headlice to toothaches... therefore ((% of the problems the medical staff has to deal with is BULLSHIT, just so the inmate can take a walk, or get a lil more attenetion. Get a f*ckin job there... and we'll see day to day, how the GUARDS are treated. Also person looking for info on Div 4.. it is now a mens division, probably due to the OVER-CROWDING of these nice, sweet, innocent individuals...
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erinThursday, October 30, 2008
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Erin - aren't you talking about the guards? They are poorly educated, undertrained, bullies, psychopaths, sociopaths, who have no supervision except by those that have been violating the law and abusing others for decades. I suppose you think Burge is a Saint also! If you read the recent US Attorney's report at http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/pr/chicago/2008/pr0717_01a.pdf there are also a significant number of guards who are murderers and felony civil rights violators. Even dogs are treated more humanely than inmates at CCDOC per the US Attorney. I'm just waiting for the indictments. Once we clearn up the place the officers who are left may be able to do a better job and then they will receive the respect they will have earned.
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LindaSunday, November 2, 2008
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linda,get a life.you do not have a clue as to the type of people that are incarcirated in the ccdoc.some are there for petty,non-violent crime and the majority you would not want to bring home for turkey day dinner.nasty,violent,murderous individuals that mame,kill,rape,rob,hit granny over the head for her purse and have no remorse.the people that have legit medical problems,I.E.diabetes,high blood pressure,etc are given proper medical care.these people bitch and moan about a sniffle,their toenails are to long,the one they havent clipped in 5 years on the street,their woes from their 30 year herion addiction,the bullitt in their leg from the 1999 drive by,etc.most of the correctional officers are fine people and there is a majority with college degrees that try to give every detainee their basic needs and respect.some of these people spit at us,throw urine on us,physical and verbal abuse.its obvious you or your family has not been a victim of a violent crime.in many countries these inmates would not survive,they throw them in a hole and let them rot,sounds good to me.but rest assured if you have a criminal at the county jail,he or she is eating a sandwich toasty and warm watching a movie.you and people like you are what is wrong with this country.make sure you lock your doors,wouldn,t want to see you get carjacked tonight.
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letskeepitrealWednesday, November 26, 2008
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My relatives are correctional officers, state police, military. I suggest you read the 98 page report from the U.S. Attorney sent to Stroger that documents the totally inadequate medical care,, the murder of inmates by guards beating them. I turned over to the affidavits from 40 inmates detailing how they were raped by guards, beaten by guards gratuitously, denied medical care (seizing on the floor for four hours for example). The US Attorney documented one man with a broken leg in a cast with an open wound where the "doctors" cut off his antibiotics and CCDOC staff refused to take him back to the orthopedic doctor. A month later when pus was oozing out of the cast his leg had to be amputated. Also what about May Molina who the CCDOC staff killed by denying her medical care while in a wheelchair when she needed asthma and diabetic care. The biggest problem is that the officers are not trained properly and as the US Attorney said there is an atmosphere of corruption and violence BY THE GUARDS. In Japan jail guards get three years training! You get two months after High School - that's ridiculous. You barely have time to learn how to shoot and put on handcuffs. I feel sorry for the 90% of the officers who are trying to do a good job even though they don't have half the training they need. If they would stop covering up for the psychopathic bully guards who are more dangerous than the inmates and if their union would demand better training. I have received death threats from many officers. I have been beaten up by Sgt. Salemi and Ofc. Johnson in the Cermak infirmiry. I have been denied medical care. Guess what! I'm now a federal witness! I won't stop until the place is cleaned up. I have informed the US Attorney of your threat against me. It is a federal felony to threaten a federal witness. I hope you enjoy your time behind bars!
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LindaWednesday, December 3, 2008
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Hello, My sister recently passed away in prison. August 4th 2008. Her name Tiffany M. Bradley. Her crime, petty. She was in the Phyciatric unit of the jail I was told that her doctor gave her medication. After her did around 8:42 pm she was rushed to St.Anthony's Hospital where she was she was pronoced dead. The nurse I spoke with that worked on her said she was pretty much doa but he still worked on her and pronced her dead at 8:50 pm. Later, at 1:40 a.m I get a phone call from my mother than she had 2 officers from elk grove in her home telling her her daughter has been dead.l The hours between seem to confuse me. Something is definatly wrong with this. No one will get back to me when they say and I am help-less. My sister didn't and was not supose to die. I believe if the jail was run better and not corrupt that she would have lived. If you would like more info, please feel free to ask, Sincerely in devistation, Noelle Kwiatek
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noelle kwiatekThursday, August 28, 2008
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I have a couple of questions, I have been visitng my grandson every visiting day since May, he hasn't received a haircut in all that time, his uniform is filty too large, he said that is the same uniform he received when he first went in which was April, he said he was told that the inmates get a different uniform each week, when he first went in there, the pants and shirt fitted him, but since he has been in there he has lost a lot of weight, now the clothing look like they are hanging on a stick, and he has a medical condition where he is unable to eat certain food, the acid in his stomach has burned his esophagus real bad, so that caused the inside of his esophagus to look like it is raw and has big lumpy looking bumps or blisters, he had a test done in GI clinic and they took pictures, we starting crying it look so bad,due to the acid that keep coming up in his throat and he has no where to spit so he has to swallow it, and it causes him a lot of chest discomfort, he was on medication before he was locked up, he said that he tells someone there that he need medication, but he still hasn't seen a doctoe there, so in th meantime he is just wasting away due to the problem that he is unable to eat properly or take his medicine, also he is getting really dark, and I dont see why, because he is not out in the sun, i think it is because of his condition. Please can I have some answers. a caring and concern grandmother.
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shelbyFriday, August 15, 2008
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Criminal Acts IL Attorney General Lisa Madigan & Judge Kathleen Pantle

2009-01-03T10:49:00.007-06:00

I believe the following Petitions to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division provide evidence of the felony conduct of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Cook County Circuit Court Judge Kathleen Pantle. Specifically their crimes are as follows and they should be prosecuted:

IL AG Madigan:

1. felony conspiracy to violate rights under color of law in conspiring with Bill Bradley, IL State Police Investigator William Reibel, Patrick Keenan, Nicholas Cozzolino, John Fearon, Patrick Murphy, and Judges Kathleen Pantle, Jorge Alonso, and Lon Schultz, as well as other unnamed or unknown individuals to intentionally retaliating against those who are whistle blowers against government corruption in Illinois and Cook County in that she conspired to illegally prosecute providers of mental health services to those on Medicaid so as to deny care for mental health services to those on Medicaid - this is a gross violation of her oath of office in that prosecutions without personal or subject-matter jurisdiction are forbidden;

2. violation of civil rights under color of law as above;

3. aiding and abetting felony forgery in that she permitted Inv. Reibel to forge the signatures of Dr. Maisha Hamilton on alleged fraudulent bills for psychiatric services used to indict Dr. Hamilton by cutting out the handwriting exemplars produced by Dr. Hamilton and placing them on phony bills which were faxed to the crime lab in Illinois;

4. felony subornation of perjury in that she and her staff assisted Inv. Reibel in making false statements to the grand juries that indicted Dr. Hamilton, Dr. Shelton, Naomi Jennings, and Mr. Glass, including false statements about the law and about evidence;

5. violating her oath of office in prosecuting Dr. Hamilton, Dr. Shelton, Naomi Jennings, and Mr. Glass for Medicaid Vendor Fraud without jurisdiction and in violation of the United States Federal Medicaid Code and the Constitution's Supremecy Clause, as well as prosecuting these persons when she had evidence they were not guilty of the alleged acts;

6. malicious prosecution against Dr. Hamilton, Dr. Shelton, Naomi Jennings, and Mr. Glass in that all these persons were whistle blowers against corruption in Illinois government and these fraudulent and malicious prosecutions amounted to retaliation for exposing the criminal conduct of members of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, as well as officials in the City of Chicago, County of Cook, and State of Illinois;

7. permitting her attorneys, namely AAGs Fearon, Murray, and Nimrod to grossly violate due process in not only prosecuting these persons without subject matter or personal jurisdiction, but also in doing so in a process indicative of gross prosecutorial misconduct in violating many rights required by due process under the Constitution;

8. other unnamed or unknown criminal acts.

Judge Kathleen Pantle:

1. felony conspiracy to violate civil rights under color of law as above;

2. violation of civil rights under color of law as above;

3. violation of her oath of office in blatantly violating the IL Constitution in incarceration Dr. Shelton on December 14, 2005 without legal process and with no bail, without a legal charge, and then repeating this act on January 6, 2006, while snubbing her nose at the IL Appellate
Court order freeing Dr. Shelton and overturning the previous illegal incarceration order, again without legal process and without formal charge or conviction, this time with an excessive and unconstitutional $500,000 bail;

4. kidnapping Dr. Shelton and Mr. Glass in that she held them for trial on fraudulent vendor fraud charges without personal or subject matter jurisdiction;

5. slavery concerning Dr. Shelton in jailing her without legal process in violation of the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution;

6. other unnamed or unknown offenses as described by the following documents.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/9694342/Shelton-Federal-Habeas-PetitionCriminal-Contempt-Conviction2008