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)
Monday, July 18, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Reform corrupt family courts - stand up and protest August 12, 2011
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/
http://cookcountyjudges.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/judge-david-e-haracz-rips-off-parents-enriches-child-representative-david-wessel-in-domestic-relations/
Friday, July 1, 2011
IL Medicaid Fraud Control Unit & State Police commit fraud on federal government to obtain millions
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:
___________________________
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
_____________________________
Senator Richard Durbin
Senator Mark KirkWrite YOUR representative - this is my representative:
202.225.5701 phone
866.822.5701 phone
202.225.1012 fax
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
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
Washington DC, 20510
202.224.2854 phone
202.228.4611 fax
202.228.4611 fax
___________________________
Representative Daniel Lipinski
3rd Congressional District IL
1717 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Washington, DC 20515
202.225.5701 phone
866.822.5701 phone
202.225.1012 fax
_______________________________
Friday, June 10, 2011
State ignores mental health care, increases prison and jail costs - penny-wise, pound-foolish
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
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
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Sign Petition for U.S. Attorney Eric Holder to Investigate Corrupt Officials - Help Free Melongo
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.
Encourage the Attorney General to investigate this case and help free an innocent whistle blower.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Cook County Court Clerk records to State Police criminal database grossly erroneous
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.
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.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Ald. Ed Burke - the most powerful man in Illinois
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.).
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.).
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