Curriculum Vitae of Dr Linda Shelton - Who is She?

One individual wrote a comment for this blog that I will not post as he refuses to identify himself claiming he/she is a correctional officer and I am a "fraud." In his comment it is clear that he/she does not understand or have the knowledge that the officers at CCDOC have been committing gross civil rights violations including:

1- refusing to give inmates grievance forms, paper or pen,
2-committing battery and assaults against inmates,
3-unlawful medical restraint and unlawful injections of psychotropic drugs to shut them up (this has been investigated by the Illinois Human Rights Authority which sustained my allegations of this class A misdemeanor violation of law but the Cook County States Attorney has refused to force a consent degree to stop this or to prosecute the perpetrators),
4-denial of statutory right to initial phone call to an attorney and a family member (particularly inmates who didn't get a phone call during processing because of a medical problem and were brought directly to Cermak) when which a jailer violates this it is a class A misdemeanor but the Cook County States Attorney is refusing to prosecute,
5-proper medical care including life-saving medication previously prescribed by outside physicians for serious medical conditions (in my case this was salt - 5 gms per day or I become continuously shocky when standing and unable to walk or even sit up at times, I also pass out and go into cardiac arrest; Norpace a heart medication to control abnormal heart rhythms, and other medication) - they take a body out of CCDOC almost every other day and many deaths are due to medical neglect or due to beatings by officers - again the Cook County States Attorney has refused to investigate or prosecute, and
6-access to the courts including access to law library materials and the means to write and mail pleadings to the court and to get messages to the courts (I was denied access to the courts which is a constitutional violation despite the fact I was representing myself).

The correctional officers at IDOC and CCDOC need better training so that:
1- they understand the above civil rights and what their responsibilities are concerning seeing they are not violated,
2-understand a little more about mental illness and medical illnesses so they do not neglect or harm patient/inmates as is rampant at the moment (a little knowledge is worse than none at all - it results in beatings or baseless discipline for refusing to obey orders when a person is physically or mentally unable to obey orders - I remain available to train them on a volunteer basis, but I know I won't be invited), and
3 -better oversight (preferably by a panel of laymen, professionals, and citizens) to stop the the culture among the officers of gratuitous violence against the inmates, verbal denigration and defamation without basis against the inmates, grotesque medical neglect, medical battery with unwarranted psychotropic drugs instead of the officers properly responding to complaints and the psychiatric staff providing proper mental health treatment (very ill inmates are locked in their cells with not even a paper and crayon or a book to read or anything to distract them 23-24 hours a day - there is no psychotherapy except a feeble attempt by one competent psychologist perhaps a few minutes a day, no group therapies, no training on how to function in society or basic living skills - in regards to seriously mentally ill imates who should really be in a mental hospital).

Law enforcement must start enforcing the rights enumerated about in a timely fashion. Until this happens CCDOC will remain a torture chamber of death, where the condition of the mentally ill is worsened, where people die of medical neglect, where officers are turned into and molded into sociopathic thugs and bullies, and where the rule of law does not apply. The US Attorney has YET TO ARREST and one involved in the instances of excessive force and gratuitous battery that resulted in deaths of inmates or medical neglect so bad an amputation occurred, among other crimes committed agaisnt inmates by CCDOC staff.

Justice delayed is justice denied!

Linda Lorincz Shelton, PhD, MD, F.A.A.P.
CURRICULUM VITAE

Summary: Twenty years experience as a physician, with pediatric specialty board certification, in both inner city and suburban locations. Extensive experience in neonatology and emergency medicine consultations. Resuscitated and stabilized the world's lightest set of surviving triplets, according to the Guinness Book of World Records (1997 edition). Three years experience at managing in-hospital level II nursery, managing the opening of new pediatric department contract, and coordinating general pediatric services for neonatal/pediatrics in-hospital service corporation. Extensive knowledge of all aspects of management services for physicians. Experience as medical research scientist studying the immunopathology of chronic active hepatitis and the immunobiology of autoimmune disease. Experience in managing a research laboratory and in teaching at the high school, college, and graduate school levels. Particular interest in management and coordination of care for children with complex medical conditions and primary care of infants and children with chronic disease. Children’s civil rights advocate with experience in Congressional testimony and extensive advisory activities with legislators. Experience as fact and expert witness in Circuit Court of Cook County on child abuse cases, death from faulty product design, neonatal physiology, anatomy, and pathology. Federal witness against corrupt State and County officials. Civil rights activist and whistle blower.

For past ten years have been informally assisting pro se litigants in understanding legal research and legal pro se procedures. I have filed in every court including U.S. Supreme Court and won  pro se > 30 cases against me as well as mandamus and injunction cases against state in public interest.

However, Huffington Post and Scribd.com have cancelled my posting and comment privileges due to false allegations they won't tell me about violating their policies (likely stating names & criminal acts of officials or officers), Examiner.com has removed me as Cook County Government Examiner as they have policy of not allowing anyone with a felony in last 7 years to write for them. I have been defamed, falsely convicted of felony battery & sentenced to 2 yrs in prison for  "bumping an officer with my wheelchair" - the officer actually attacked me in jail, grabbing my neck, in retaliation for my complaints & falsified his record and charges against me. I have been wrongfully convicted of criminal contempt times and one time unlawfully sentenced to 16 months in jail without a trial!

At present in 2014 I am defending against another felony charge of battery for "touching an officer's ear" during a PTSD flashback triggered purposely by officers.  The possible sentence is up to 14 years in prison.  The corrupt are determined to take me out. See: http://cookcountyjudges.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/shelton-wrongfully-jailed-for-one-year-recently-released/


Professional Experience:

2000 – 2003 Right Frame of Mind, & Associates, now RFOM, PC
Medical Director and Treating Physician

Psychiatry/Psychology group practice providing services to underserved inner city population, DCFS wards, and Arabic American Community Organization (SANAD)


1999 – 2000 HighTech Nursing Services, Inc.
Medical Director


1994 - 2003 The Pediatric Institute of Chicago, SC (PIC)
Founder, President, Pediatrician
****TEMPORARILY CLOSED****

Closed after the Clark Gas Station next to my office spilled 14,000 gallons under the ground and I was overcome by fumes in 2001, and after extensive neurosurgery of the spine for congenital and spinal stenosis causing slow progression towards quadriplegia in 2000 and then a herniated disc in 2002 aggravated by battery by Sheriff Officer Deputy Rebecca Doran, and Correctional Officer Johnson and Sgt. Anthony Salemi at CCDOC who battered me. False arrests, malicious prosecutions, and batteries by officers, in retaliation for my whistle blower activities against corrupt officials including George Ryan, Lisa Madigan, Richard Divine, and Michael Sheahan and their staff have caused me to be unable to re-open my office and make an income.

Single specialty general pediatric practice. Office temporarily closed due to Dr. Shelton’s civil rights activities and legal issues. The PIC has provided independent contractors to Chicago area pediatric practices and clinics during the past eight years. Dr. Shelton has provided pediatric clinical services, through PIC contracts from January 1994 to 2002 for the following offices:

The Midwest Physician Group - Olympia Fields, IL 1/94-7/94
Dr. George Skarpathiotis - Palos Heights, IL 9/94-6/95
Dr. Anna Ignaczewski - Palos Hills, IL 1994-1996
Dr. Henry Abusharif - Palos Heights, IL 9/95-11/95
Dr. Juan Pablo Cueva - Olympia Fields, IL 1/96- 11/96
Claretian Medical Center - Chicago, IL 4/96-10/98
St. Colletta's of Illinois - Palos Park, IL 1996-2002
Dr. Shelton held the title of "laboratory director" of a medium complexity laboratory at Claretian Medical Center from 11/96 to 11/98, through a PIC contract.
Dr. Shelton also held the position of "consultant in pediatrics" for St. Coletta's of Illinois.

1994 - 1996 Doctor's Office Support Organization, Ltd.
Founder, President, CEO
Willowbrook, IL

Healthcare management services organization. We are not currently active due to the death, in July of 1996, of cofounder and Vice-President Paul Wowk.

Neonatal and Pediatric Services, SC
Oak Brook, IL
1993-1994 Coordinator of Pediatric Services
1993-1994 Regional Director
1991-1994 Unit Director
1989-1994 Staff Pediatrician

Recruited staff for and coordinated development of new county hospital pediatric department - Provident Hospital of Cook County [where Dr Shelton witnessed patronage hiring fraud and corruption - by Cook County Board President John Stroger Sr's godson Orlando Jones who he appointed the CEO - Mr. Jones committed suicide after he was indicted by the US Attorney in Fall 2007] , directed level II inner city neonatal unit with 400 admissions per year, developed new ambulatory pediatric/teaching service for family practice residency program, coordinated corporations teaching of graduate and medical students at medical university, developed improved compliance with government regulations and reporting requirements, developed tools for information management in neonatal unit and pediatric department, saved millions of dollars for inner city hospital with CPT optimization and improved documentation.

Education:

1990-1991 PGY-3 Resident in Pediatrics
Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center and
Christ Hospital and Medical Center

1989-1991 Fellow in Neonatology/Pediatrics
(Non-accredited)
Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine

1987-1989 PGY1 & 2 Resident in Pediatrics
Wyler Children's Hospital at University of Chicago
Kunstadter Children's Hospital and Medical Center
La Rabida Children's Hospital and Research Center

1983-1987 M.D. (Doctor of Medicine)
Medical University of South Carolina

1979-1983 Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy in Pathology)
State Trainee
Department of Pathology
Medical University of South Carolina

1976-1978 S.M. (Master of Science in Immunology)
Committee on Immunology
University of Chicago

1972-1976 A.B (Bachelor of Arts with honors in Biology)
University of Chicago


Certificate and Licensure:

March 18, 1993 Neonatal Resuscitation Certification
Hospital-Based Instructor
October 28, 1992 – Dec. 31, 1999 American Board of Pediatrics Certification
Recertified 2000 - 2007
March 5, 1990 Pediatric Advanced Life Support Certification
May 5, 1988 Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification
August, 1989 - expires July 2005 Physician and Surgeon
State of Illinois
License number 036-078411
Controlled substance license number 0336-041477
Placed on non-renewed status August 1, 2005
State unlawfully has claimed they have suspended license indefinitely under false pretenses – this is being litigated in court at present.
January, 1998 - expires Feb. 2007 DEA Number XXXXXXX


Hospital Affiliations:

June 19-2001 Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
Urgent Temporary Staff Privileges granted
for the purpose of caring for one medically
complex patient at the request of Illinois Department of
Services for Crippled Children and hospital administration

Christ Hospital and Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL
Hope Children’s Hospital, Oak Lawn, IL

2001 – 2004 (2002 unlawful suspension, 2004 unlawful retaliatory revocation of privileges in appeal process at present before circuit court)

Active Staff, Pediatrics
1998-2000 Associate Staff, Pediatrics
1995-1998 Provisional Staff, Pediatrics,
1992-1994 Associate Medical Staff

Chicago Osteopathic Hospital & Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Olympia Fields Osteopathic Hospital & Medical Center,

Olympia Fields, IL
1989-1991 Fellow in Neonatology/Pediatrics (non-accredited program)

Provident Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL
1993-1994 Attending Pediatric Staff

St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Joliet IL
1991-1994 Consulting Pediatric Staff

Jackson Park Hospital, Chicago, IL
1993-1994 Consulting Pediatric Staff

St. Bernard Hospital, Chicago, IL
1993-1994 Consulting Pediatric Staff

(I resigned due to contract requirement before I had the opportunity to treat any patients)

(All staff resignations were voluntary and required by restrictive covenant in previous contracts with Neonatal and Pediatric Services, SC, or with the Midwest Physician Group.)

Honors, Awards and Achievements:

2005 Ronald Reagen Gold Medal from National Republican Congressional Committee

2000 Honorary Co-Chairman Physician Advisory Board
The National Republican Congressional Committee

Appointed by Speaker Hastert and Majority Whip Tom DeLay
National Leadership Award – advocating for the handicapped

1990 Resuscitated and stabilized the world's "Lightest triplets....the Vincent
triplets..." as noted on page 637 of The Guinness Book of World Records, 40th edition, 1997. The Vincent triplets were born at a community inner city hospital in Chicago weighing 519 gm, 660
gm and 700 gm, to a woman in serious condition with no prenatal care at approximately 28 weeks of gestational age.

1985 Outstanding Student in Physical Diagnosis and Medical Interview
Medical University of South Carolina

1981 Waring Historical Library Essay Contest - Runner-up
Medical University of South Carolina

1976 National Science Foundation
Fellowship Program - Honorable Mention

1976 Received A.B. degree with honors in biology

Professional and Community Affiliations:

Former Pianist Oak Lawn Park District Children's Drama Group
Associate Member Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society - 1983 to 2005
Founding Member Electrophoresis Society - 1988
Diplomat National Board of Medical Examiners - 1988 to Present
Member American Medical Women's Association - 1990 to Present
Fellow American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) - 1993 to Present
Member Governmental Affairs Committee Illinois Chapter AAP - 1994 to Present
Member National Association of Female Executives - 1995 to 2001
Member Coalition for Educational Rights - 1995 to 1997
Oak Lawn Education Summit - 1995 to 2000
Chair Legislative Committee – 1999 to 2000
Member Unitarian Universalist Church - 1995 to Present
Pediatric Consultant to St. Colletta's of Illinois - 1996 to 2002
Christ Hospital Customer Service Steering Committee – 1996 to 2002
Oak Lawn Community Partnership Council - Appointed by Mayor Kolb 1996
Chair 1999 Fall on the Green Committee
Member Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, Christ Hospital 1997-1999
Member Home Health Committee, American Academy of Pediatrics 1998-present
Member Ad Hoc Committee to Defend Health Care 1998
Member Illinois Campaign for Better Health Care 1998
Working Group on Children With Special Health Care Needs
Member AMA Women’s Physician Congress 1998 – present
Member Democratic Party until 2000
Member Republican Party 2001 to 2005
Honorary Co-Chairman Physician Advisory Board to the Republican
Congressional National Committee
Member Libertarian Party 2006
Candidate for Mayor of Oak Lawn, 2005
Member of Green Party 2007
Presently unaffiliated to a Party


Personal:

Marital Status: Divorced from Vietnam era veteran who suffers mental health problems, one child, age 21

Date of Birth: September X, 19XX

Maiden Name: Linda Lillian Lorincz

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C.

Languages Spoken: Spanish but not fluently





Other Activities:

Expert Witness:

1 - McDuffie v. Graco Children's Products, Inc, 1996-1997
court No: 95 C 5384
Settled out of court

Testimony provided pertaining to neonatal resuscitation, neonatal anatomy and
airway physiology, and neonatal forensic pathology. Reviewed and provided
opinions concerning expert testimony by epidemiologist, neonatologist,
pathologist, and product design investigator. Reviewed and commented on
all testimony by parents of deceased and police. I was original reporter to
product safety commission regarding initial infant death in a swinging crib.
Product was removed from the market after 15 deaths.

2 - Mario v. Ryan, 2001
court No: 94 C 1471 United States District Court for the Northern District
of Illinois, Eastern Division

Declaration as to deliterious affect of cutting services for physically and mentally
challenged children in 0-3 program. Judge order State of Illinois not to cut 73
million dollars from budget.

3 - Written testimony provided to United States House of Representatives,
Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources, “Hepatitis
B Vaccine: Helping or Hurting Public Health,” May 18, 1999.

4- Writen testimonay provided to United States House of Representatives, House
Oversight Committee on varicella vaccine to be used in hearing scheduled about varicella
vaccine sometime in the coming year, 2000 and 2001

Expert Advice:

1 - Provide expert advice to Representative Burton of Indiana pertaining to
vaccine issues, and civil rights as they impact health care. 1998 - 1999

2 - Provide expert advice to former Illinois Senator Patrick O’Malley pertaining to
health issues and civil rights impacting health issues 1998-2000

3- Requested by Governor Blagojevich to provide Brief on DCFS Reform to
Task Force on DCFS Reform 2003


CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVITIES:

1 - Provided evidence of abuse and neglect of children in DCFS custody to
Mr. Benjamin Wolf of ACLU – Mr. Wolf was appointed by Federal Court to
oversee compliance of DCFS with previous consent decree. 1998 – present

2 - Testified pertaining to Chickenpox vaccine mandate before Illinois Board of Health
2000-2001. Urged State of Illinois not to mandate vaccine due to civil rights violations
(no clear and present danger to public health justifying suspension of civil rights) and due
to increased risk of death in infancy if vaccine widely utilized.

3 - Testified before Minnesota House of Representatives Government Operations
Committee against House File 886 File would have placed decisions to suspend
citizens’ civil rights in the hands of a one-sided bureaucrat who was advised by a
sham committee of one-sided interests. Defeated 19-1.

4 - Witness and Advocate for parents wrongly accused of abuse and neglect in
Circuit Court of Cook and Lake County, Illinois, Child Protection Division

1998- present

5 - Served as volunteer “authorized representative” for C. H. in DCFS
expungment hearing June 2003 and successfully obtained expungment of all child
abuse findings for C.H.

6 - Activist and delegate at 2004 Illinois PTA Convention and convinced delegates
to pass resolutions asking legislature to rescind mandate requiring schoolchildren to
have hepatitis B vaccine, to ask legislature to require entering schoolchildren to have eye
exam not just inaccurate eye screen, and to ask legislature to recommend strongly that
adults not smoke in automobiles that carry small children.

7 - Federal witness regarding excessive force, medical neglect, torture, civil rights violations
at CCDOC - Dir. of US Attorney Task Force on Civil Rights Violations at CCDOC of ASA
Joan Laser - evidence has been given to her. Potential federal witness against corrupt
State and County officials in Illinois and Cook County. Evidence given to U.S. Attorney
and FBI.

8. Successfully sued Cook County Sheriff for violation of FOIA, court ordered him to
produce compliance plan with ADA and he admitted he didn’thave one. April 2005.

9. Successfully sued State of Illinois agency (Human Rights Authority) in mandamus for
failing to investigate compliant about torture, medical neglect and abuse of mental health
patients at Cook County Jail. State capitulated and agreed to begin investigation. August
2007



Teaching Experience:

1997 - 2002 Instructor for pediatric residents in care of institutionalized patients
with chronic disease - Hope Children's Hospital

1993-1994 Hospital based neonatology resuscitation instructor certified by
American Heart Association and American Academy of
Pediatrics

1989-1994 Medical staff in neonatology/pediatrics - instructed family practice, pediatric, and ob/gyn residents, as well as medical students
in neonatology and general pediatrics, as well as community
medicine - Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine

1987-1991 Resident in pediatrics with teaching responsibility for medical students
and interns on my service - University of Chicago Hospitals and
Clinics and Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center

1979-1983 Instructor in course segment "Pathology of the Nucleus"
Teaching assistant (medical and nursing schools) pathology, histology,
immunology - Medical University of South Carolina

1976 Graduate level cell biology teaching assistant (advanced microscopy)
- University of Chicago Graduate School, Biological
Sciences Division

1975-1976 Director of student guided tutoring services - University of Chicago College

1971 Algebra teaching assistant - University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

Questions and Answers About Cook County Jail - Corruption in Jails

A continuing blog discussion about what is going on at Cook County Jail and information that inmates and families of inmates need to know. Extensive civil rights violations are detailed in many of the posts. Dr. Shelton "Linda" provides a lot of the answers:

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

The Secretive Atmosphere in Illinois, Government Corruption, and Gov. Blagojevic Arrest

I am concerned about the lack of transparency regarding the overall atmosphere in Illinois in particular related to the Gov. Blagojevic arrest, and I presume soon to be announced indictment.

Illinois for too long has been under the control of the Kingdom of former Gov. Jim (Prince John) Thompson and his Lords, Chicago Mayor Richard M. and Cook Co. Commissioner John Daley (sons of former Mayor Richard J.), County Board Pres. John Stroger Jr. (son of former County Board Pres. John Stroger), House Speaker Michael and his daughter Atty Gen. Lisa Madigan, Alderman Ed (buddy of Fast Ed[dy] now convict Vrdolyak) and IL. Supreme Court Justice Ann Burke, former Sheriff (of Nottingham) Sheahan, and State's Attorney Richard (Gisbourne) Divine, as well as other Lords such as former Sen. President Emil Jones and now his son Emil Jones Jr. Political office is inherited in Illinois, elected by political patronage paid for by bribery (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, tit-for-tat, nothing to do with competency or experience, etc.).

Its time we have a truth commission in Illinois to give clemency to low level players so that we can reveal the true extent of the corruption, encourage witnesses to come out of the woodwork and reveal their evidence, as well as start anew with a high level of transparency. We desperately need new blood in Illinois and help from the U.S. Attorney in breaking the cycle of corruption, bribery, kick-backs, patronage, and nepotism.

Fear is powerful. It keeps witnesses from talking. Fear in IL is used by making patronage workers fear job loss, fear loss of promotion, fear poverty. Whistle blowers are threatened by defamation, false arrests, and false statements about their sexual life or sexual preferences. This is topped off with death threats on the phone and a history of "suicide" by those arrested and charged with corruption who have positions just under the powerful like John Stroger Sr.'s godson Orlando Jones.

A UIC professor said: Patronage breeds corruption like garbage breeds flies. SOOO true in Illinois.

For more information about Illinois Corruption see the blogs:

http://cookcountyjudges.wordpress.com/

http://cookcountysheriffdeputies.wordpress.com/

http://chicagofbi.wordpress.com/

http://7thcircuitcourts.wordpress.com/

and other posts on this blog.



Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. is identified as Candidate # 5 in the U.S. Attorney complaint against Gov. Blagojevic. Apparently someone connected with him was approached by Gov. Blagojevic operatives in order to negotiate Rep. Jackson “compensating” Gov. Blagojevic with funds for his political campaigns IF Rep. Jackson was placed higher on the list for appointment as Senator. Rep. Jackson should reveal the name of his associate and exactly what was discussed between his associate and Gov. Blagojevic’s operatives. If he is unwilling to do so, I MUST presume he has something to cover up. If he made NO inappropriate offer to produce campaign funds for Gov. Blagojevic (bribe) in exchange for or compensation for obtaining the Senate seat, then he should have nothing to hide and be totally willing to reveal all conversations occurring between his staff or operatives and Gov. Blagojevic’s staff or operatives, as well as the names of these people.

The same holds true for Pres.-Elect Obama. If someone from his staff spoke to someone in Gov. Blagojevic’s staff concerning filling his Senate seat he should reveal their name and insist that the staff member be totally transparent about the conversation. If he doesn’t do this quickly the public and press will assume he has something to hide.

Senator Durbin has requested that Gov. Ryan be granted clemency. I think he should withdraw that request because of reasons I state elsewhere,

http://illinoiscorruption.blogspot.com/2008/12/no-clemency-for-convict-former-governor.html,

as well as the fact that it would diminish the seriousness of his offense. Persons in office deserve VERY stiff sentence when they break the public trust. This is essentially treason. For Gov. Blagojevic to try to corrupt the US Senate by appointing someone who bought the office is also tantamount to treason but at a higher level. It should be treated as such in my book. His acts, if true, were so blatant, arrogant, and beyond the pale to astonish all. The punishment if he is convicted should be EXTREMELY steep.

I have informed Senator Durbin of a lot of facts related to corruption in the courts and government offices in Illinois that violate state law and amount to felony conspiracy to violate rights under color of law. I had asked him to consider holding congressional hearings on this topic and review the federal law regarding this to find ways to better enforce civil rights law and the right to a fair trial. I was exceedingly disappointed in his response. He said its not a federal issue and I should consult a state legislator. He is Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. As such he should clearly see this IS A FEDERAL ISSUE. He has a sworn duty to uphold the laws of this land. He was informed of felony conduct of government officials and members of the courts in Illinois. He should have referred the issue to the US Attorney and considered holding hearings. His failure to do so means he has disregarded his DUTY to uphold the laws of the land, failed to respond to a citizen in Illinois about pressing civil rights issues and government corruption issues that have culminated with with the arrest of Gov. Blagojevic, and makes me assume he is more interested in covering up corruption and forgiving corruption in Illinois than addressing these issues. I now must question his loyalty to the constitution and the citizens of Illinois.


His e-mail to me is as follows:


December 9, 2008




Dr. Linda Shelton
9905 S. Kilbourn Ave
Oak Lawn, IL 60453


Dear Dr. Shelton:

Thank you for contacting me about a blog alleging corruption in the Illinois judicial system. I appreciate hearing from you.

This issue is under the jurisdiction of state and local government. As a federal official, I do not have a formal role in this matter. However, I appreciate knowing your concerns.

You may want to contact your State Senator and State Representative to let them know your views. You can find their names and office telephone numbers by entering your home address at the website of the Illinois State Board of Elections, http://www.elections.il.gov/DistrictLocator/SelectSearchType.aspx, or by calling the Board at (866) 262-6663.

Again, thank you for your message. If I can be of any service regarding an issue before the United States Senate, please do not hesitate to contact my office.


Sincerely,
Richard J. Durbin
United States Senator

RJD/td

No Clemency for Convict former Governor George Ryan

Ryan whines that he’s already paid a price with loss of pension, not seeing his sick wife, and loss of reputation. He belatedly is expressing remorse for the first time, but never mentions the death of the Willis family’s six children that resulted from his actions.

He has it better than most convicts who lose much much more including their home, friends, family, reputation, employability, often right to vote in other states, etc. Prisoners often are not allowed even to go to the funerals of loved ones or visit at their deathbeds. I feel sorry for his wife, but Ryan should realize that the consequences to his family are a result of his actions. You don’t release murderers because their family is sick. Ryan is a murderer. He deserved a far longer sentence.

He shouldn’t get special treatment, especially because he told the families with handicapped children through his aide that he would not increase slots for the waiver program to keep severely disabled children at home instead of in nursing homes or institutions because “they should die.” He was ruthless as a Governor despite some good things that he did. Power, influence, control, no matter who it hurt was his goal. He gave very little empathy to others in need. He was out of touch with the people who needed government help most.

As a politician Ryan is even more culpable for his crimes than an average citizen. He had a heightened duty to follow the law in that he took an oath of office. Violation of the public trust and constitution requires harsher sentencing to prevent others from following in his footsteps.

Prisoners deserve mercy and rehabilitation, but lets be reasonable. Mercy is not just for the elite, wealthy, and connected. Let the punishment fit the crime! He doesn’t deserve shortening of an already ridiculously short sentence considering his crime. People died because of what he did! He has NEVER specifically acknowledged this fact and asked for forgiveness for this.
He may have made a good decision to commute death sentences, but in general he was heartless, arrogant, and deserves a far longer sentence.

No special treatment for Ryan!

Political Trials (Hits) - Still Alive and Well in 21st Century American [In] Justice

Protecting Defendants Charged for Political Reasons

SUPREME COURT JUSTICE DOUGLAS IN 1970 - "Does the answer to the problem of political trials involve defining the procedure for conducting political trials or does it involve the designing of constitutional methods for putting an end to them? . . . . It will be time enough to resolve those weighty problems when a political trial reaches this Court for review."

THE TIME MAY BE NOW!

The State of Illinois through first Attorney General Jim Ryan and now Attorney General Lisa Madigan along with incompetent, ignorant, and/or corrupt officials in Illinois Medicaid including Bill Bradley, Investigator Reibel in the State Police, and Patrick Keenan in the State Police Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, with tacit approval by many other corrupt officials in the State of Illinois, have perpetrated a scheme for ten years to deny mental health services for persons on Medicaid in violation of the Federal Medicaid Code. See my other posts on Medicaid on

http://illinoiscorruption.blogspot.com/2008/10/criminal-scheme-of-il-attorney-general.html .

In order to falsely advertise that she is "tough on fraud" so that she can advance her personal political ambitions, Lisa Madigan continues to fraudulently and without legal authorization indict outstanding providers of mental health services to Medicaid patients. Judges Schultz, Fox, Pantle, Alonso, and Egan have participated in these void and illegal prosecutions and done great harm to the citizens of Illinois in their illegal acts of violation the United States Constitution, in aiding and abetting this violation of federal law and civil rights.

I have been one of the persons illegally indicted and defamed, presently awaiting trial over a period of four long years. The harm to me, my patients, and my family is immeasurable and painful. I have persistly legally and appropriately through the legal process of at first representing myself and filing scholarly motions proving that higher court precedence (stare decisis) does NOT PERMIT this kind of persecution for political gain, and that my case is null and void ab initio (from the start).

I have been punished for vigorously advocating for my constitutional rights to redress of grievances and due process (including the right not to be tried for something that is not a crime) for four years with four incarcerations for contempt (two thrown out by the Illinois Appellate Court - pepetrated by Dishonorable Judge Pantle), one presently before Hon. Judge Coar in federal district court on a habeas corpus petition (asking the court to vacate and expunge the conviction on the basis of violation of constitutional rights and voidness - pepetrated by Dishonorable Judge Pantle), and one in limbo - dismissed for want of prosecution, but potentially can reinvigorate the appeal later (perpetrated by Dishonorable Judge Alonso).

I have been beaten, tortured, and medically neglected during these incarcerations and when I protested, a correctional officer, Sgt. Anthony Salemi, came into my cell and committed assault and battery against me. He falsified his records and I was charged and convicted of aggravated battery to an officer for allegedly "ramming him with my wheelchair" causing a skinned shin, and "kicking him in the chest with my RIGHT leg" causing soreness. This was impossible for me to do do to a partial RIGHT hemiparesis and extreme weakness secondary to dehydration caused by mendical neglect. I was sentenced to two years despite no criminal record and was released from Dwight penitentiary after being tortured on March 31, 2008. I was punished and placed in solitary confinement for 6 months because I refused to walk (I was unable to due to my disability) and forced to swim in my diarrhea on a 2 inch mattress with no sheets or clothes for days, except for a roughly quilted velcro smock and blanket, without toilet paper, without water (I was too week to get myself up to the water fountain at the sink or the toilet). The United States Attorney has been informed and so far has done NOTHING! My weight dropped from 171 lbs to 127 lbs and by the time I was released I couldn't even sit up because of severe dehydration, and electrolyte imbalance. I was immediately taken to an emergency room and treated. The incompetent and barbaric sadists and psychopaths in Dwight's medical department had insisted I was faking my medical problems.

Due to my protests, all reasonable and responsible and polite, I have been illegally and immoraly denied self-representation by Judges Pantle and now Alonso without legal authority in violation of my constitutional rights. I am being prosecuted for political reasons as a whistle blower. I testified against now convict and ex-Governor George Ryan in a class action suit for illegally denying 73 million dollars in funds for the care of handicapped children. I have won suits against Sheriff Sheahan in C[r]ook County for violating the American with Disabilities Act. I have won suits against the State of Illinois for failing to investigate barbaric and illegal abuse of mental health patients/inmates at Cook County Jail, and I have numerous pro se civil rights, mandamus, and injuctive suits pending in federal and state court against these corrupt officials. I am a target of the corrupt cabal in Illinois and C[r]ook County.

Justice Douglas in Illinois v. Allen, 397 U.S.337 wrote the following in a concurring opinion, which is very much on point. My case is ripe for Hon. Juge Coar to address in this manner in the federal district court. It is a political case! This quote, by Justice Douglas in his opinion, about Penn is fascinating and you everyone should enjoy it!.

HOWEVER IT IS SAD THAT IN THE 21ST CENTURY IN ILLINOIS, CITIZENS WHO ARE DOING NOTHING BUT PROVIDING MUCH NEEDED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES TO THE NEEDY, WHO HAVE DEVOTED THEIR LIVES TO SERVICE, AND WHO VALUE OUR CONSTITUTION, ARE STILL THE TARGET OF POLITICAL ATTACKS IN A MOST VICIOUS AND BRUTAL MANNER!

THIS IS WHY I ASK FOR THE HELP OF THE PUBLIC TO FUND MY DEFENSE AND TO HELP ME CONTINUE TO HELP OTHERS DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION.

See link at the right on this blog if you wish to help.
________________________________________________________________________QUOTED FROM CONCURRING OPINION BY JUSTICE DOUGLAS IN ILLINOIS V. ALLEN, 397 U.S. 337 (1970):

Our real problems of this type lie not with this case, but with other kinds of trials. First are the political trials. They frequently recur in our history, [Footnote 2/2] and, insofaras they take place in federal courts, we have broad supervisory powers over them. That is one setting where the question arises whether the accused has rights of confrontation that the law invades at its peril.

In Anglo-American law, great injustices have at times been done to unpopular minorities by judges, as well as by prosecutors. I refer to London in 1670, when William Penn, the gentle Quaker, was tried for causing a riot when all that he did was to preach a sermon on Grace Church Street, his church having been closed under the Conventicle Act:

"Penn. I affirm I have broken no law, nor am I Guilty of the indictment that is laid to my charge, and to the end the bench, the jury, and myself, with these that hear us, may have a more direct understanding of this procedure, I desire you would let me know by what law it is you prosecute me, and upon what law you ground my indictment."

"Rec. Upon the common law."

"Penn. Where is that common law?"

"Rec. You must not think that I am able to run up so many years, and over so many adjudged cases, which we call common law, to answer your curiosity."

"Penn. This answer I am sure is very short of my question, for if it be common, it should not be so hard to produce."

"Rec. Sir, will you plead to your indictment?"

"Penn. Shall I plead to an Indictment that hath no foundation in law? If it contain that law you say I have broken, why should you decline to produce that law, since it will be impossible for the jury to determine, or agree to bring in their verdict, who have not the law produced by which they should measure the truth of this indictment, and the guilt, or contrary of my fact? "

"Rec. You are a saucy fellow; speak to the Indictment."

"Penn. I say, it is my place to speak to matter of law; I am arraigned a prisoner; my liberty, which is next to life itself, is now concerned: you are many mouths and ears against me, and if I must not be allowed to make the best of my case, it is hard, I say again, unless you shew me, and the people, the law you ground your indictment upon, I shall take it for granted your proceedings are merely arbitrary."

"Rec. The question is whether you are Guilty of this Indictment?"

"Penn. The question is not whether I am Guilty of this Indictment, but whether this Indictment be legal. It is too general and imperfect an answer, to say it is the common law unless we knew both where and what it is. For where there is no law, there is no transgression, and that law which is not in being is so far from being common that it is no law at all."

"Rec. You are an impertinent fellow, will you teach the court what law is? It is 'Lex non scripta,' that which many have studied 30 or 40 years to know, and would you have me to tell you in a moment?"

"Penn. Certainly, if the common law be so hard to be understood, it is far from being very common; but if the lord Coke in his Institutes be of any consideration, he tells us, That Common Law is common right, and that Common Right is the Great Charter-Privileges"

"Rec. Sir, you are a troublesome fellow, and it is not for the honour of the court to suffer you to go on. "

"Penn. I have asked but one question, and you have not answered me; though the rights and privileges of every Englishman be concerned in it."

"Rec. If I should suffer you to ask questions till tomorrow morning, you would be never the wiser."

"Penn. That is according as the answers are."

"Rec. Sir, we must not stand to hear you talk all night."

"Penn. I design no affront to the court, but to be heard in my just plea: and I must plainly tell you that, if you will deny me Oyer of that law, which you suggest I have broken, you do at once deny me an acknowledged right, and evidence to the whole world your resolution to sacrifice the privileges of Englishmen to your sinister and arbitrary designs."

"Rec. Take him away. My lord, if you take not some course with this pestilent fellow to stop his mouth, we shall not be able to do anything tonight."

"Mayor. Take him away, take him away, turn him into the bale-dock. [Footnote 2/3]"

The Trial of William Penn, 3 How.St.Tr. 951, 958-959.

The panel of judges who tried William Penn were sincere, law-and-order men of their day. Though Penn was acquitted by the jury, he was jailed by the court for his contemptuous conduct. Would we tolerate removal of a defendant from the courtroom during a trial because he was insisting on his constitutional rights, albeit vociferously, no matter how obnoxious his philosophy might have been to the bench that tried him? Would we uphold contempt in that situation?
Problems of political indictments and of political judges raise profound questions going to the heart of the social compact. For that compact is two-sided: majorities undertake to press their grievances within limits of the Constitution and in accord with its procedures; minorities agree to abide by constitutional procedures in resisting those claims.

Does the answer to that problem involve defining the procedure for conducting political trials or does it involve the designing of constitutional methods for putting an end to them? This record is singularly inadequate to answer those questions. It will be time enough to resolve those weighty problems when a political trial reaches this Court for review.

ONE THING IS FOR SURE - HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF!
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[Footnote 2/2]From Spies v. People, 122 Ill. 1, 12 N.E. 865, involving the Haymarket riot; In re Debs, 158 U. S. 564, involving the Pullman strike; Mooney v. Holohan, 294 U. S. 103, involving the copper strikes of 1917; Commonwealth v. Sacco, 255 Mass. 369, 151 N.E. 839, 259 Mass. 128, 156 N.E. 57, 261 Mass. 12, 158 N.E. 167, involving the Red scare of the 20's; to Dennis v. United States, 341 U. S. 494, involving an agreement to teach Marxism.

As to the Haymarket riot resulting in the Spies case, see 2 J. Commons and Associates, History of Labour in the United States 386 et seq. (1918); W. Swindler, Court and Constitution in the Twentieth Century, cc. 3 and 4 (1969).

As to the Pullman strike and the Debs case, see L. Pfeffer, This Honorable Court 215-216 (1965); A. Lindsey, The Pullman Strike, cc. XII and XIII (1942); Commons, supra, at 502-508.As to the Mooney case, see the January 18, 1922, issue of The New Republic; R. Frost, The Mooney Case (1968).

As to the Sacco-Vanzetti case, see Fraenkel, The Sacco-Vanzetti Case; F. Frankfurter, The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti (1927).

As to the repression of teaching involved in the Dennis case, see O. Kirchheimer, Political Justice 132-158 (1961).

[Footnote 2/3]At Old Bailey, where the William Penn trial was held, the baledock (or baildock) was"a small room taken from one of the corners of the court, and left open at the top, in which, during the trials, are put some of the malefactors."

Oxford Eng. Dict.

Confirmatory Bias by Judges Against Pro Se Litigants, [In]Justice Extremes

Judges in the Circuit Court of Cook County should all be charged with practicing medicine without a license. They are very arrogant and end up being quite unfair due to their confirmatory bias. Confirmatory bias is when a person has preconceived ideas. In this case their ego will not allow them to acknowledge a non-attorney quoting cases or statutes which they either are not aware of or do not understand. They fail to acknowledge to themselves that they are NOT omnipotent repositories of all law, that they are ignorant of much law and rely on the attorneys to educate them on areas where they are weak through motions quoting case law. This is why they "defend" their egos and arrogance with "shoot-from-the-hip" irrational and unconstitutional rulings in fits of unconscious emotion. They unconsciously, through arrogance, ignorance, and inexperience, selectively listened and absorbed only misinterpreted facts and unverified hearsay that support this bias. This is the nature of the beast called confirmatory bias.

MY RECOMMENDATION TO THE JUDGES IS TO BACK OFF, TAKE A DEEP BREATH, AND QUESTION WHETHER YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES OF THE CASE OR ARE SUBJECT TO EMOTION AND CONFIRMATORY BIAS WHEN CONFRONTED WITH A VERBOSE, EMOTIONAL, INTELLECTUAL, OVERLY ENTHUSIASTIC DEFENDANT. MAYBE HE HAS SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO SAY BUT YOU CAN'T SEE THE FOREST AMONG ALL THE TREES HE IS POINTING OUT TO YOU. IT IS YOUR JOB AS A JUDGE TO TAKE CONTROL OF AND CLARIFY THIS EXCEEDINGLY (TO YOU) ANNOYING SITUATION.

There is a great mismatch between the style of judges/attorneys and physicians. Judges/attorneys are taught to narrow the issues and make statements using the least words. Decisions are based on as few issues as possible. Physicians are taught to cover every issue (don't miss a possible diagnosis in their differential and see the global health of the person). When physicians are wronged they tend to mix together the two issues of criminal law and civil law. In a criminal case they will try to discuss every irrelevent but connected issue so, as they perceive, the "court" will understand motive and circumstance. They are not aware that the "court" doesn't care about motive and circumstance in all its details but just wants to limit the testimony and discovery to issues concerning elements of a crime. They are not aware that criminal courts are not the place to litigate torts or air grievances.

Judges/attorneys falsely believe that every pro se litigant is a rambling, irrational, incoherent nut. Therefore, they don't even try to listen to or read the pleadings of a pro se physician or self-taught, ragged, and, to the uninformed and unwilling to listen, seemingly confused "legal expert" no matter how factual and accurate their statements and arguments may be. It is simply too much for their inflated egos to handle. Instead through confirmatory bias the judge will immediately order a fitness exam and ignore the defendant. Judges simply do not comprehend the fact that many defendants are "normal" but on the fringe in terms of extremely adamant positions on social and civil rights issues. For example: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Ghandhi, anti-war protesters, civil rights activists are not all mentally ill. They are just determined, passionate, and adamant. Failure to accommodate these people in the courts, treating them like raving maniacs, harassing them and defaming them is a great injustice. The courts should have RESPECT and TOLERANCE for defendants with extreme and adamant social viewpoints.

Fitness for trial has a very low bar. All that is needed is an understanding of the players (what is a judge, jury, etc., and what do they do), the charge, the possible sentences, and the consequences of conviction, as well as an ability to interact with his attorney or tell the story and answer questions in some meaningful but minimal fashion. The defendant can be florridly psychotic, but if he meets these criteria he is legally "fit" although mentally ill. It is not necessary to make this basic determination to have a full mental health evaluation.

In fact it is a gross waste of resources to constantly refer defendants who are clearly fit to forensic clinical services (a department with notoriously incompetent and arrogant phsychiatrists who blanketly deny even the defendants's request to tape record or write down the interview on paper, which denies the defendant a record of the interview to have another psychiatrist of his choosing review for accuracy of the diagnosis - even the Supreme Court has implied through dicta that it is not unreasonable to record the interview - and professional psychiatric organization ethical rules do not bar such a recording).

For the judges to constantly defer to Dr. Markos' innane rule barring any recording and other psychiatrist's self-serving (to prevent proof of their malpractice, which shouldn't be a concern as they have total immunity from malpractice torts) rule of not even allowing note-taking by the defendant is obscene in my view and firmly denies the write to confrontation when informaton from the interview is used against a person regarding sanity.

I recommend that judges when faced with a verbose, overly intense and emotional intellect in a defendant, especially a physician, should satisfy their curiosity about defendant's fitness by asking some simple question and making the following statement to inform the person that courts are apples compared to the oranges in the practice of medicine (or other professional field) in the way they approach issues.

"I am going to give you some basic instruction about courtroom procedure and how attorneys and judges approach the practice of law to make your hearings run smoothly. I am not hear to solve your personal issues regarding retaliation against you or harassment of you by rightful or wrongful conduct of others against you. The purpose of this court is to decide if you committed a crime. A crime is defined by elements. For example with the crime of trespass the State only has to prove you were told to leave a place and you refused to leave. Any arguments between you and the owner of the place are irrelevant to the determination of you innocence or guilt. They may however later be introduced at the sentencing hearing if you are found guilty as mitigating or aggravating factors. For the same reason, this court will find irrelevant and not allow the introduction at trial of any factos that occurred before or after this incident of an alleged crime as irrelevent. The issues in criminal court are narrowed to the elements of the crime and I will not allow this court's time to be wasted or the court to be distracted by irrelevant materials. The court does recognize that under unusual circumstances factors that may superficially seem irrelevant may actually relevant. Therefore, for purposes of efficiency and judicial economy I ask both sides to put these issues in writing in a motion for leave to present them at trial."
This would be a start in ending the war between pro se litigants who are not nuts (physicians, self taught "legal experts", etc.) and moving cases along more efficiently and rationally.

It is my hope that this web site and the companion sites: http://cookcountyjudges.wordpress.com/ and
http://prosechicago.wordpress.com/
will be used both by judges/attorneys and the public (particularly pro se community) to reduce tempers, calm nerves, bring understanding, encourage justice, and move cases along more efficiently and less traumatically for all involved.

10 Cook County Correctional Officers Arrested for Cocaine Drug-Deals in UnderCover FBI Sting

U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney
Northern District of Illinois

Patrick J. Fitzgerald Federal Building
United States Attorney 219 South Dearborn Street, 5th Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60604
(312) 353-5300

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACTS:
TUESDAY DECEMBER 2, 2008
AUSA M. David Weisman (312) 353-2119
www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln AUSA April Perry (312) 886-5966
Randall Samborn (312) 353-5318

FIFTEEN SOUTH SUBURBAN LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AMONG 17DEFENDANTS CHARGED IN FBI UNDERCOVER PROBE FOR ALLEGEDLYPROVIDING ARMED SECURITY FOR PURPORTED LARGE-SCALE DRUG DEALS

CHICAGO – A six-passenger, twin propeller engine aircraft flew on May 13 this year into west suburban DuPage Airport where three men awaited its arrival. Two of them – Ahyetoro A. Taylor and Raphael Manuel, both Cook County Sheriff’s Office Correctional Officers – accompanied an individual whom they believed brokered large-scale drug transactions but, in fact, was an undercover FBI agent. They boarded the aircraft, which was operated by two other undercover agents, and began counting packages of what was purported to be at least 80 kilograms of cocaine stashed inside four duffel bags. Taylor, Manuel and the undercover agent they accompanied removed the duffels from the plane and took them through the airport lobby to the trunk of the agent’s car in the parking lot. Taylor and Manuel, in a separate car, followed the agent to a nearby retail parking lot, where the agent parked and got into the officers’ vehicle. Together, the trio watched as yet another undercover agent arrived, removed the duffels from the trunk of the parked car, placed them in a Mercedes and drove away. The FBI agent posing as the drug broker then paid Taylor and Manuel $4,000 each - allegedly their most profitable payday in the corrupt relationship they began with the undercover agent at least a year earlier.
The undercover agent, while posing as an employee of a business in south suburban Harvey, was the hub in multiple spokes of police corruption in which Taylor and Manuel – often together with other officers they recruited – allegedly provided armed security for purported cocaine and heroin transactions throughout the south suburbs in 2007 and 2008. The investigation resulted in the unsealing today of federal charges against 17 defendants – 15 of them sworn law enforcement officers, including 10 Cook County Sheriff’s Office Correctional Officers , 4 Village of Harvey police officers and a Chicago police officer. The defendants allegedly accepted between $400 and $4,000 each on one or more occasions to serve as lookouts and be ready to intervene in the event real police or rival drug dealers attempted to interfere with any of a dozen different purported transfers of kilogram quantities of cocaine and heroin.

Today’s arrests and charges were announced by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They commended the assistance of the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in the investigation.

All 17 defendants were charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute kilogram quantities of cocaine and/or heroin in eight separate criminal complaints that were unsealed following arrests early today. Seven of the eight complaints were supported by a single, 61-page FBI affidavit that tells the story of an undercover investigation that involved such activity as police officers allegedly protecting a purported high-stakes poker game, protecting transportation of large amounts of cash and two law enforcement officers actually selling powder cocaine, in addition to the routine activity of providing security for purported narcotics transactions.

Fourteen of the defendants were either arrested or surrendered today and were expected to appear at 3 p.m. before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Mason in U.S. District Court. Arrest warrants were issued for Taylor, 28, of Joliet, and Jermaine E. Bell, 37, of Lynwood, also a Cook County Sheriff’s officer, both of who are on active military duty with Army National Guard units in Afghanistan. Another defendant, Archie Stallworth, 36, of Harvey and a Harvey police officer, was arrested on Nov. 19 but the charges remained under seal until today. He was released on bond and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for Dec. 4.

Stallworth was accused of also accompanying the undercover agent to the DuPage Airport in a second, separate sting that occurred there on Aug. 11 this year. Armed with a Smith and Wesson handgun, Stallworth allegedly accepted $1,000 after assisting the undercover agent obtain three duffels purportedly containing 30 kilograms of cocaine from a second undercover agent who was waiting in the airport lobby. After placing the duffels in the first undercover agent’s car, Stallworth and the agent drove separately to a nearby retail lot and then sat together in Stallworth’s car as they watched yet another undercover agent remove the duffels and drive away, according to the charges.

While sitting in the car with their conversation being recorded, Stallworth allegedly said: "It’s kinda suspect, you walk in, he come in with three bags, you walk out with three bags. He go this way, you go that way. In an airport, that’s probably cause. It arouses suspicion."
About two weeks earlier, in another recorded conversation, Stallworth allegedly told the undercover agent: "The best spot for ya’ll to do that, believe it or not, is the train station. Fast food places, that’s where we (law enforcement) be looking. Sit there all day or they set up surveillance cameras," according to a separate affidavit that was attached to the complaint against him.

"Ideally, it should be hard to find one corrupt police officer and it should never be easy to find 15 who allegedly used their guns and badges to protect people they believed were dealing drugs instead of arresting them," Mr. Fitzgerald said. "And the involvement of some in off-loading and delivering what they thought were large shipments of drugs flown in by plane is particularly shocking," he added.

Mr. Grant said: "The almost systemic corruption that this investigation uncovered is quite troubling, especially given that most of those charged are sworn law enforcement officers. One would have hoped that the many public corruption investigations that have previously been announced would have served to deter this type of conduct. Apparently, that is not the case."
According to the common affidavit, the undercover agent paid a total of $44,000 to 16 of the defendants, not including an additional $1,000 to Stallworth. The largest shares allegedly were paid to Taylor ($15,000) and Manuel ($14,500), respectively, for providing security during alleged drug transactions. The "deals" involving the agent’s purported drug sources and customers – all of whom were undercover FBI agents – typically occurred in retail and hotel parking lots in the south suburbs of Homewood, Tinley Park, Oak Lawn, Matteson and Bolingbrook and were captured on audio and video recordings by the undercover and surveillance agents.

In each instance, the undercover agent allegedly would determine that each officer was carrying a firearm and advised them that they were providing protection for transfers of narcotics, providing the specific amount of purported cocaine and/or heroin that was involved. The undercover agent would then pay each defendant after each transaction was completed. After establishing an allegedly corrupt relationship with Taylor and Manuel, the agent typically contacted them and asked them to recruit a specific number of other officers to work each security detail, the charges allege. The undercover agent also would meet with the members of each crew beforehand to discuss the quantity and type of drugs that were purportedly being transferred.

The escalating series of 12 purported drug transactions occurred between Aug. 1, 2007 and Aug. 11, 2008, with one additional staged deal that was planned but cancelled. After Taylor alone allegedly provided the undercover agent with security for the first transaction, Taylor and Manuel teamed up with another defendant, Tavis Ramsey, 31, of Chicago, who is not a law enforcement officer, to provide security for the second staged deal on Aug. 22, 2007. Discussing his close relationship with Taylor, Manuel allegedly told the undercover agent during a recorded conversation a week earlier that he and Taylor could intercede with local law enforcement if needed. "We know how to politic with the local authorities in case they try to stick their noses in that stuff like that. Then that way it gives everybody else a chance to split," Manuel said.
Manuel, 32,of Glenwood, allegedly sold an ounce of cocaine to the undercover agent on Dec. 5, 2007, and Manuel and Taylor allegedly sold the agent two ounces of cocaine on April 18, 2008.
In the third staged deal, on Aug. 29, 2007, the undercover agent allegedly paid $400 to each of two Harvey police officers – Dwayne Williams, 42, of Country Club Hills, and Antoine D. Dudley, 28, of Harvey – for providing security. According to the affidavit, in late May 2007 before the security stings began, Williams had accepted $400 for providing security for a purported $100,000 poker game being staged by undercover FBI agents, and Dudley had received $400 for providing the undercover agent with a security escort to a local business.

Williams and Dudley allegedly teamed-up again – this time with fellow Harvey police officer James Engram, Jr., 41, of Calumet City – in providing protection for a purported deal involving 25 kilograms of cocaine on Feb. 29, 2008. During a recorded conversation preceding the deal, Engram allegedly discussed his background with the undercover agent, saying: "I ain’t always been in law enforcement .... So I know about other dealers watching. I use my street knowledge as well as what they taught me on the force to watch and learn body language, cars and we can do things on an as to know basis."

The following lists the eight separate cases and defendants charged in each complaint:
United States v. Manuel and Bell
Manuel allegedly accepted a total of $14,500 for providing security for eight separate staged drug transactions, including one on Sept. 14, 2007, with Taylor and Bell, who allegedly accepted $500 for working a single staged deal on that date.

United States v. Ramsey and Kyle T. Wilson
Ramsey allegedly accepted a total of $1,900 for providing security for four separate purported drug transactions, including one on Oct. 24, 2007, with Taylor, Manuel and Wilson, 31, of Chicago and a Chicago police officer, who allegedly accepted $500 for working a single staged deal.

United States v. Timothy Funches, Jr., and Diallo S. Mingo
Timothy Funches, 26, of Bellwood and Mingo, 34, of Calumet City, both of the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, allegedly accepted $1,000 each for providing security with Taylor and Manuel for a single purported transaction involving 50 kilograms of cocaine and 2 kilograms of heroin on Nov. 16, 2007.

United States v. Taylor, Antwon Funches and Antonio B. McCaskill
Taylor allegedly accepted a total of $15,000 for providing security for nine separate staged drug transactions, including one on Nov. 30, 2007, with Manuel, Antwon Funches, 34, of Chicago, a Cook County Sheriff’s officer, and McCaskill, 30, of Harvey, who is not a law enforcement officer, with the latter two allegedly accepting $1,000 each for working a single staged deal.

United States v. Daniel L. Lee and Julius L. Scott, Jr.
Lee, 31, of Chicago, and Scott, 34, of Richton Park, both of Cook County Sheriff’s Office, allegedly accepted $1,000 each for providing security with Taylor and Manuel for a single purported transaction involving two kilograms of heroin on Dec. 10, 2007.

United States v. Richard O. Hall, Jr., and Robert L. Kelly, Jr.
Hall, 35, of Chicago, and Kelly, 32, of Glenwood, both of the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, allegedly accepted $1,000 each for providing security with Taylor and Manuel for a single purported transaction involving two kilograms of heroin on Dec. 17, 2007.

United States v. Dudley, Engram and Williams
In events described above, Williams allegedly received a total of $1,400, including $400 for a May 2007 security escort, and Williams and Engram received $1,000 each, and Dudley accepted $1,200, the charges allege, for providing security for a purported transaction involving 25 kilograms of cocaine on Feb. 29, 2008.

United States v. Stallworth
As described above, Stallworth allegedly received $1,000 for providing security for the purported transfer of 30 kilograms of cocaine at the DuPage Airport on Aug. 11, 2008. The Government is being represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys April Perry and M. David Weisman. If convicted of conspiracy to possess and distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine and/or one kilogram of heroin, faces a mandatory minium sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life in prison and a maximum fine of $4 million. The Court, however, would determine the appropriate sentence to be imposed under the advisory United States Sentencing Guidelines. The public is reminded that complaints contain only charges and are not evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent and are entitled to a fair trial at which the government has the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. # # # #
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