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    Monday, July 18, 2011

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


                                                                                      Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown-official portrait

    The principle job of the Cook County Court Clerk is to keep accurate records and in the case of the criminal courts transmit these records to the Illinois State Police. She is also by statute required to transmit Notices of Appeal filed with her office to the Illinois Appellate Court within five days, as well as orders granting or denying indigency petitions to the litigant (plaintiff or defendant) "promptly" or by mail if the llitigant isn't present.
    The ISP is required by law to maintain records of criminal histories on Illinois residents. These records help to generate a rap sheet for persons arrested including a record of convictions, acquittals, and bond forfeitures. These records are also sent to the FBI for their criminal database.

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

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

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

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

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

    One defendant who was arrested on misdemeanor battery, was disabled, and had four preliminary bond forfeitures which were quashed because she was in hospital or had other good excuses. She has a history of coming to court. The Court Clerks failed to transmit to the ISP court dispositions quashing the bond forfeitures. The writer checked with the court assistant clerks and found out that they NEVER transmit notic to the ISP that bond forfeitures are quashed, which happens at least 1/2 the time.
    The ISP records do not have any records that the bond forfeitures were quashed so the prosecutor told the judge that the defendant was a "flight risk" with a history of ignoring court orders, which is totally false. The rap sheet appeared to have four bond forfeitures as they only listed the preliminary bond forfeiture orders. Despite the defendant's attorney, acting as an "officer of the court," stating that the ISP rap sheet was incorrect, Judge Feerick refused to believe him and set bail at $50,000 instead of the usual $1,000 for a misdemeanor case. This caused the defendant to be needlessly and wrongfully incarcerated. This defames the defendant and affects her ability to obtain a job. This was clear bias by Judge Feerick to believe the states attorney and not the defendant's attorney.

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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    In the interest of full disclosure, the disabled defendant is this writer. During a  court hearing on a fraudulent trespass charge against me (see below for details)  Sheriff Deputy Stanislavski stepped in front of my walker (I am disabled) and pushed his body against it after I complained that Deputy Sheriff Norris inappropriately grabbed my arm and told me to shut up in a courtroom where I was representing myself on a wrongful arrest and fraudulent misdemeanor trespass charge. Judge Hyland failed to speak up and admonish the deputy.
    The Sheriff courtroom deputies are inadequately trained in that they are trained to tell defendants to shut up in the courtroom. However, when a defendant is representing themselves as pro se counsel, they have the same rights as an attorney to speak up, object, etc. I was successfully representing myself as the charge was later dismissed by the state (nolle prosequi) without explanation.
    I told Deputy Sheriff Norris to stop "assaulting me" and that I had a right to speak up like an attorney when I was representing myself. Stanislavski said quietly under his breath so the court reporter wouldn't hear him: "if you're going to charge her with assault, I'm going to charge you with battery." He claimed no injury. The judge said nothing as their was no assault to see.
    The transcript of the hearing I was in reveals there was no battery. Judge Hyland was inappropriately yelling at me when I politely interrupted her and said she had made an error of law in stating that trespass to real property was a class A misdemeanor. I told the judge it was actually a class B misdemeanor and the judge got annoyed. I later copied the law and showed the judge she was in error. Judge Hyland then transferred the case to another judge.

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

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    Illinois Trespass to Real Property law:

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

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

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

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


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


    Sit in PROTEST - Burge torture victims still in prison

    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)

    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/

    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:
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    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

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    Assistant Attorney General                                                                                   
    Civil Rights Division
    Criminal Section
    950 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest
    Washington, DC 20530         
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    Senator Richard Durbin

    711 Hart Senate Building
    Washington DC 20510
    202.224.2152 phone
    202.228.0400 fax
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    Senator Mark Kirk
    524 Hart Senate Office Building
    Washington DC, 20510 
     
    202.224.2854 phone
    202.228.4611 fax
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    Write YOUR representative - this is my representative: 
    Representative Daniel Lipinski
    3rd Congressional District IL
    1717 Longworth HOB
    Washington, DC 20515

    202.225.5701 phone
    866.822.5701 phone
    202.225.1012 fax

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