Chicago a hot spot for home health fraud

Editor's note: This Shark believes that the Alice R. Gore Estate is the poster case for home and hospital health care fraud.  It could not exist if not for the corrupt Probate Court of Cook County.  Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com

Chicago a hot spot for home health fraud

This Chicago metropolitan area is one of 27 geographic "hot spots" identified by an analysis of Medicare claims data by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General.

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Ameet SachdevContact ReporterChicago Tribune

Chicago's home health care industry has a big fraud problem and a federal study released Wednesday suggests more scrutiny may be warranted.

The metropolitan area is one of 27 geographic "hot spots" identified by an analysis of Medicare claims data by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General. The examination found dozens of home health agencies and physicians in the Chicago area whose recent Medicare claims have characteristics similar to those observed in cases of fraud.

Federal authorities are paying close attention to home health because it is playing a growing role in U.S. health care as insurers and physicians increasingly seek to manage patients with chronic conditions and keep them out of emergency rooms, hospitals and nursing homes.

In 2015, the Medicare insurance program for the elderly paid $18.4 billion to more than 11,000 home health businesses. At more than $900 million, the Chicago region had the most home health payments last year, according to the report.

Home health agencies get star ratings from Medicare

Chicago has been long recognized as having high rates of home health fraud, so much so that in 2013 the federal government imposed its first moratorium on new home care businesses in the six-county region.

Federal authorities in Chicago also have pursued fraudsters aggressively. Dozens of physicians, nurses, home health agency owners and marketers have been charged and convicted in recent years. The investigations have revealed many problems, including doctors taking kickbacks for referrals and approving home nursing visits for patients who were not homebound.

The indictments keep coming. On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced charges against a physician with an office in Buffalo Grove, Dr. Yevgeny Odessky, who is accused of taking cash kickbacks in exchange for referring patients to a home health agency in the north suburbs. Odessky was not immediately available for comment.

In addition, the owners of two home health providers, Schaumburg-based Axis Health Care Services and Glenview-based TLC Healthcare Services of Illinois, have been charged with paying kickbacks to recruiters in exchange for referring elderly patients.

The charges were part of what officials said Wednesday was the largest crackdown on Medicare fraud since a federal health care investigations team was started nine years ago. Federal agents have arrested about 300 suspects around the country, on charges ranging from taking illegal payments to false physical therapy claims that allegedly cost Medicare about $900 million.

Despite numerous successful prosecutions, home health fraud remains an issue, said Adam Freeman, a leader of the study by the Office of Inspector General.

The study flagged 37 home health providers and 257 physicians in the Chicago area as having suspicious Medicare claims. It didn't identify any of them by name.

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Hundreds of elderly victims of elder cleansing (also known as retroactive abortion) lie doped up in nursing homes as the US Treasury is raped unmercifly.     (Philip ESformes has been indicted of stealing a billion dollars in Medicare funds as an example).

The Government Accounting Office has filed five reports to Congress on this matter.   The abuse and forfeit of the human rights of senior citizens is not a secret!   Jerome Larkin and his gang of miscreants (18 USCA 371) have been for years covering up the criminal enterprise being conducted by some corrupt Judges on the 18th Floor of the Daley Center.    Larkin did not blink an eye when Judge Maureen Connors admitted on page 91 of her evidence deposition to being wired (fixed).   He was not impressed when he examined file 09 P 4585 and observed that the victim (Mary Sykes) had not been served with the summons mandated by 755 ILCS 5/11a - 10, her next of kin were not notified of a competency hearing as required by 755 ILCS 5/11a - 10 that is jurisdictional, no competency hearing was ever held, ******

The fix occurring in disciplinary hearings is also legend.    A panel of Larkin's Lackeys without a scintilla of evidence presented to them found that Mary's next of kin had knowledge of the very hearing as to Mary's competency that was never held.  Inconsistency and Factual reality are not necessary in the Jerome Larkin world.   He like his co-conspirators operate under the banner of "do not confuse me with the facts, I've made up my mind.'

Progress appears to be being made!    Illinois is on the verge of Bankruptcy.   As billions of dollars in the Illinois conspiracy have been stolen, the Illinois Department of Revenue ought to start collecting the taxes, interest and penalties due jointly and severally by the co-conspirators.   Pursuant to 18 USCA 371 it is my opinion that Jerome Larkin and each of his lackeys has joint and several liability.  Time for each one of them to PAY UP!!!!      

Ken Ditkowsky

www.ditkowskylawoffice.com

Editor's note: When this Shark advised Alice R. Gore's nursing home staff that Alice had been billed 7 times for the same X-ray  he was met with a blank stare. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com

 

 

Department of Justice

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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Co-owner of Chicago Medical Transport Company Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Overbilling Illinois Medicaid $4.7 Million

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A Chicago man has been sentenced to five years in prison for fraudulent overbilling an estimated $4.7 million to Illinois’ Medicaid program for non-emergency medical transport. Gregory D. Toran, 68, of Hazel Crest, Ill., was also ordered to pay $4.7 million in restitution. U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough, who sentenced Toran on Jan. 23, allowed Toran to remain on bond until the federal Bureau of Prisons directs him to self-report to a prison facility to begin his prison sentence.

 

Toran owned IBT Transportation, LLC., a non-emergency medical transport company, with Tina Kimbrough, 44, of Berwyn, Ill. In August, Kimbrough was sentenced to 30 months in prison for her role in the scheme. Kimbrough previously pled guilty to participating in the conspiracy with Toran. Kimbrough was also ordered to pay $4 million restitution, due jointly and severally with Toran.

 

As a result of the scheme, IBT fraudulently overbilled the state’s Medicaid program by an estimated $4.7 million for services not rendered, not rendered to the extent claimed, and for mileage well in excess of miles actually driven. During the period of the conspiracy, from December 2005 to June 2011, IBT billed and was paid claims totaling approximately $7.3 million.

 

The court found that IBT billed for deceased individuals and individuals who were not transported because they were in the hospital and billed based on dates individuals were approved for transportation, whether they rode or not. At times, IBT billed for more riders than it could physically transport. Further, the court found that although the handbook mileage rules were straightforward that transportation providers could only bill mileage for the first rider, Toran directed billers to incorrectly bill for mileage - from not billing mileage at all, to billing mileage for all riders, and later, every fourth rider.

 

The charges were investigated by the Illinois State Police Medicaid Fraud Control Bureau; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. In addition, the Illinois Department of Health and Family Services, which administers Illinois’ Medicaid program, assisted in the investigation. Assistant U.S. Att

Western Union to pay $586 million to compensate senior fraud victims, others

Western Union to pay $586 million to compensate senior fraud victims, others

Editor's note: This Shark observed that nobody compensated Alice Gore's funds that were laundered by the Probate Court of Cook County to a Canadian Tribal Bank in Manitoba. When Your ProbateShark informed the court's insurance attorney of the fraud, that "it was his responsibility to inform the authorities"...he retorted, "...you don't know what an attorney's responsibility is..." Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com

Western Union will forfeit $586 million after admitting to the Justice Department that it aided and abetted wire fraud and did not maintain an effective program to deter money laundering. The money will be used to compensate victims of fraud and implement anti-fraud programs to protect older adults and others in the future.

The dollar amount is the largest forfeiture ever imposed on a money services business, according to the government, which announced agreements with the Englewood, CO-based company on Jan. 19. Several federal agencies were involved in the investigation.

Leaders of the Senate Special Committee on Aging praised the effort, saying that Western Union's actions “disproportionately affected aging Americans.” Those actions, according to investigators, enabled the proliferation of mass marketing schemes, illegal gambling, money laundering, human smuggling and drug trafficking. Hundreds of millions of dollars in prohibited transactions were processed, they said.

In some cases, government officials said, fraudsters contacted U.S. residents and falsely posed as family members in need, or they promised prizes or job opportunities. The scammers directed the victims to send money through Western Union to help a relative or claim their prize. Various company agents were complicit in these schemes, often processing payments in return for a cut of the proceeds, government officials said.

The company heard about fraudulent transactions more than a decade ago through reports made by customers but did not implement guidelines that its security department subsequently proposed for the disciplining, suspension or firing of agents involved in the deals, the Justice Department said. As part of its agreements with the DOJ, Federal Trade Commission and four U.S. attorneys' offices, Western Union said it will take steps to ensure that it complies with the law in the future.

“Americans have long been aware of ‘grandparent scams' that encourage victims to transfer funds to fake family members allegedly in need of assistance,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), chairwoman of the Senate Aging Committee, said in a statement following the Justice Department announcement. “Our committee has worked to shine a spotlight on these criminals, and today's action by the FTC and DOJ will help bring protections and restitution for innocent victims.”

People who believe they were victims of the fraud scheme can visit the Department of Justice website for instructions on how to request compensation through the Victim Asset Recovery Program.

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Senate approved a bill for federal oversight of guardianship and accountability for guardians who exploit, the DOJ cannot ignore us anymore

Senate approved a bill for federal oversight of guardianship and accountability for guardians who exploit, the DOJ cannot ignore us anymore

 

 

Editor's note: This Shark questions whether the new bill will negate the crooks running the Probate Court of Cook County?  If the FEDs wish the names of these criminals, many are listed on Shark blog's "wanted list" or the case histories of Sykes, Gore, Tyler, or Wyman. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com

kenneth ditkowsky	5:53 AM (5 minutes ago)
to Cynthia, Candice, HAR, ProSe, Rana, Eliot, Sam, Gary, Zena, Mary, Robert, Janet, Andy, JoAnne, Jeffrey, Angela, me, Bev, Glenda, Douglas, Scott, Diane, Ditkowsky, Richard, Ginny

The information that Attorney Schwager has forwarded in her e-mail is profound.

 

The Senate has struck a blow against the glib apologists for corruption as usual.    

I hope and pray that we are able to handle the reality that is now on the horizon.   Attorney Schwager is absolutely correct that the DOJ can no longer ignore the cries of the Elderly for equal justice and courts that follow the law.    Indeed, the glib assaults on the State and Federal constitution by certain corrupt judges, and in particular the promulgators of the massive cover-up of elder cleansing is in its final days.

I hope that we do not seize defeat from the jaws of victory!    Over the years reformers and dogooders of all shapes and sizes have been very successful in defeating themselves.   This battle is too important to lose and therefore until we see an public officials (such as Jerome Larkin) who aggressively managed cover-ups to protect the miscreants ravaging the elderly such as Mary Sykes, Alice Gore, Carol Wyman, ***** being criminally prosecuted for the 18 USCA 371 activities we are still at square one.

America cannot turn the other cheek when infamy is the rule in the Probate Division of our Courts and an elderly person can be deprived of every human right by a corrupt judge's signature on an order that is dead wrong.    On page 91 of her evidence deposition, Judge Maureen Connors, the presiding Judge in the Sykes case admitted that she was fixed as her decision was predetermined!    The court file revealed that the required summons was never served on Mary - indeed, the Sheriff was directed by the miscreant applicant for plenary guardian to serve Mary in a county that not only did she not live, but where the two guardians ad litem ( Two GALs) and the 'wired' Judge was aware Mary did not reside.  (she knew because Guardian Cynthia Farenga wrote her a note telling her that fact, and this corrupt Judge appointed GAL Adam Stern to interview Mary in the foreign county.

To use a terrible pun  - the elder cleansing miscreants have been TRUMPED!   

  

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From: kenneth ditkowsky <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com>

Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: Senate approved a bill for federal oversight of guardianship and accountability for guardians who exploit, the DOJ cannot ignore us anymore

Thank you for supplying this information.    It is long over-due.

Now is the time for Law Enforcement to follow through and bring some of the miscreants who have abused the elderly and the disabled under color of statute to Justice.   The scandal of a billion dollars being stolen from the medicare program, hundreds of millions from hospice programs, pharmaceutical reimbursement programs etc is outrageous and a stain on our democracy.   The cover-up by lawyer disciplinary commissions and in particular the Jerome Larkin criminal conspiracy in Illinois is beyond contempt and the open and notorious labeling of a blog that exposed unconscionable lawyer and judge misconduct (see In re: Sykes 09 P 4585) as akin to "yelling fire in a crowded theater" the nadir of human conduct and respect for Constitutional government.    How an individual such as Jerome Larkin can continue in an office that requires public trust is beyond rational explanation.   

 

Judge Maureen Connors, the presiding Judge in the Mary Sykes proceeding on page 91 of her evidence deposition admitted that she was wired/fixed.   The record in the Sykes case bears this out, yet, Connors was elevated to the Appellate Court of Illinois and approximately three million dollars that allegedly disappeared from the Sykes estable not recovered.   Indeed, Jerome Larkin has literally moved heaven and earth to prevent an HONEST INVESTIGATION.    Why ha she been successful?    Why has the Illinois Department of Revenue no collected the Income taxes generated by conspiracy (joint and several liablity) from public servants who violated the public trust - such as Larkin, the Court appointed Guardians ad Litem etc.

The outrage does not begin or end with the Sykes case as the family of Carolyn Wyman, Alice Gore **** are all entitled to not ony Justice, but a full and complete investigation as to how such perfidy could exist in Illinois (or any State for that matter) and how it could go uninvestigated and unpunished.    Please remember that Alice Gore endured having 29 teeth removed so that a Court appointed guardian ad litem could orchestrate a search of her mouth for Gold.

TIME FOR AN HONEST INVESTIGATION, AND HONEST AND DILIGENT ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW IS NOW!

Ken Ditkowsky

www.ditkowskylawoffice.com

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Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: Senate approved a bill for federal oversight of guardianship and accountability for guardians who exploit, the DOJ cannot ignore us anymore

Thank you Candice.  cc'ing Athena, Janice, Rana, Ken D., and Eliot Bernstein,  Dr. Sugar, Dr. Gary Solomon, Zena and Mary B.

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Candice Schwager <candiceschwager@icloud.com> wrote:

As goes Texas so goes the Nation. The time has come for our government to redress our constitutional violations whether it opens the flood gates or not. States have refused to protect their coffers from having to pay money damages but that time is over because congress and state legislatures’ backs are to the wall and the cries have become to loud to ignore.  Most of this is federal but it’s coming to your state if not already there. Mark my word. 

We need to call the Secretary of State and see if Judges in probate courts’ oath was on file with SOS at the time she did all of these things because if not, her acts were void or ultra vires and she’s subject to personal liability.  have a woman who Tim Lahrman worked with through two ADA suits in the 7th Circuit for the death of her mother in guardianship and theft of trusts. Her name is Gloria Sykes and Tim and Gloria learned all of the traps in federal court to throw it out by trial and error. She called and said major tweaks to our lawsuit will make our lawsuit bulletproof and we will win. She said the advocates leading the charge nationally are counting on us to win because there’s no precedent nationally establishing that a ward is protected by the same protections applicable to those who have capacity. We need the wisdom you all have acquires fighting this ward. 

Notably, I read in the probate and estates codes in our State, stating now that the ward and guardianship estate are deemed a RES, such that the logical extrapolation is they aren’t protected because they aren’t a person, which is nonsense. By acknowledging that they have rights in statutes that were enacted long ago and new ones too they are showing that they existed all along. I just got this email from Rick Black, who is collecting affidavits across the nation to give to Texas Senator John Cornyn to get this ACT passed. I am betting it defines a ward as a person subject to the protections we are. 

Disability is a protected class under federal law for which strict scrutiny is applied to treat them differently than other citizens. Nothing passes that test aside from race, national origin, gender, and DISABILITY. The problem is disability is considered somewhat less stringent that incapacity. Incapacity is a less onerous burden than incompetent and when courts couldn’t usually win on incompetency, they snuck in the term incapacity into the codes. If you look at both codes, all of us are subject to being deemed incapacitated if the judge is motivated to get rid of us. It says incapacitated means mentally, physically disabled Substantially incapable of performing ADL’s and as you know, crooked bought out experts in a small pool rubber stamp reports without performing the battery of tests the Alzheimer’s association deems necessary for such a finding. It’s also a jury question which is never given because they use Ad litem to duress people into signing away their parents’ freedom which they have no constitutional right to do. 

With a presumption of capacity, they shouldn’t be prevented from hiring their own lawyer to actually represent them zealously as the Bar requires even if it’s not in the statutes. It’s implied. Without zealous representation by a lawyer who accommodates their disability and allows them to attend court and participate, they are denied meaningful access to justice and the courts before they are routinely and arbitrarily robbed of liberty and property without due process of law.. These judges took an oath of office which makes their acts illegal and treason. That violates federal criminal law 18 USC 241, 242 and Tex. Human Resources code 48.001, 102.003, Texas Admin. Code (will get the section), Government code, Texas Health and Safety Code chapter 166.155 or 155.166, the Elder Justice Act, Older Americans Act, 14th Amendment, Texas Constitution on property and liberty, US Constitution. 42 USC 1983 and 12101 (ADA). New regulations have been issued by the Congress 12/2016 which are much more stringent than when enacted in 1990 and 2008, made necessary by federal courts including SCT watering the ADA down and not taking the law seriously. 2008 initially did it and 2016 again because the same problem happened again. 

This makes federal and state cases on the ADA somewhat doubtful unless they meet the appropriate standard. Disability is defined in the ADA, 504 and other federal law so that they cannot claim the ADA isn’t covered. Federal and State officials are bound by it or it would be worthless because every branch of federal govt. have been given increasing levels of immunity borrowed from England, which we moved here to escape. They borrowed common law which has been supplanted by federal. The supremacy clause is violated by any law purporting to provide less protection especially where the congress has stated state law is pre-empted by federal law and where Congress expressly abrogated immnity. . as in the ADA. The government is only made liable for violations by actors of the government because it cannot act without a person doing it. Color of state law implies that there’s no legal authority to do it. Judges cannot avoid upholding the Constitution and laws of the State or Federal government by doing nothing because their oath includes performing the duties. 

Texas eliminated the question of whether judges can be held liable by enacting a bond or requiring a cash deposit with the commissioners to protect wards against injury or loss. The entire code was expressly for the protection of a ward and if they cannot get redress for injuries of the government and court system designed to protect them, the US constitutional guarantee that you have a remedy is violated. Caperton vs. Massey is attached and says it all. They cease to represent the government when they act unconstitutionally and commit treason. 

The legislature is considering a bill which eliminates the requirement of a bond by the judge which also covers the guardians wrongful acts because the code mandates they review the bonds for the person and estate each year and make sure they are adequate and if not, increase them. They are liable for the grossly negligent acts of guardians and GALs. AAL’s have no immunity for crimes and bonds/insurance don’t cover intentional torts, making them personally liable. If the government has a pattern and practice, the actions of them all make the government responsible. Then there’s the question of negligent hiring. Not ensuring MEANINGFUL ACCESS to justice by ensuring they understand their rights and get to participate fully. Without a hearing and jury, they are denied any due process and with incompetent lawyers who advocate against their rights, they are denied access to the courts and justice entirely, violating the 5th and 14th Amendments. 

Every person has a right to the personal integrity of their own body which only they have the right to decide. Only wards can revoke medical POAs and wards can reject medical treatment that’s unwanted which they are denied by allowing a guardian to force meds on them unless they are a danger to themselves or others. They are still mandated to have due process within 72 hours or be released. Otherwise it’s. A tort. Wrongful death doesn’t require the standing of other deprivations like mandating the guardian be the only person with the right to sue. Rule 17c says if the guardian has a conflict of interest, the judge can appoint a separate GAL and AAL to protect them. Ginger was appointed Ditta immediately before we knew what was even going on. Notice wasn’t given and even where they are appointed on an emergency basis, a hearing is still requires afterwards where people with superior rights to appointment are to be immediately appointed and the guardian removed without proving anything except qualification and standing. 

Cruelty and gross negligence of the guardian is not a requirement to remove the guardian as Butts deceived us into believing and ruled by written order. This is a requirement where the appointment didn’t occur as Ginger’s did. There has to be a hearing for a ward even if they are already in guardianship because findings must be made and none were made in this case because Butts did it outside of an official court hearing without a record being made. No findings of law or fact were ever made, even informally. She admitted several times in the first hearing we were permitted to attend that she didn’t handle it appropriately and should have allowed us to participate fully. 

She had Fox notify and call every guardian in the cabal and Larry (who she knew had no standing) but said she didn’t have time to notify us. By notifying everyone in writing even by email as she did in Rik’s case and ours repeatedly instead of issuing a court order that can be appealed, thinking she trapped us from being able to move forward absent mandamus which we could not have won because of her discretion. So, I am calling the secretary of state and encourage you to do so too. It might be challenging to find out because they haven’t made it easy. A public records request to the officer of public information officer of Harris county would reveal it but they’ll delay by involving corrupt Ken Paxton who covered their crimes when I filed one after they rammed 1438 down our throats. Without a court ruling, I was deprived of a remedy. 

Void acts make the act without case without subject matter jurisdiction and that is never too old to sue them for even though they lie and deceive you. Most people and lawyers don’t have a clue about the rights the disabled have and they are prohibitively expensive after you have been robbed so people are desperate and lose. 

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Subject: U.S. Senate Bill 178, the Elder Abuse and Exploitation Prevention and Prosecution Act

Date: January 26, 2017 at 2:26:58 PM CST

Resent-From: schwagerlawfirm@ live.com

National Elder Abuse and Fraudulent Guardianship Prevention Advocates,

 

I wanted to pass on information on Senate Bill 178 introduced by Senator Chuck Grassley on inauguration day, January 20, 2017.  Although the text has not been released this appears to be the reintroduction of Senate Bill 3270 from the 114^th Congress.  The introduction is consistent with Grassley’s 114-230 report building a budget for the bill.  Grassley estimates budgetary needs of $8-9 million a year to implement the program.  Based on the $10 billion a year in familial losses due to fraudulent guardianships being imposed on innocent Americans and their families this might be the best investment American taxpayers could make.

 

From the Congressional Record of 1/20/17

By Mr. GRASSLEY (for himself, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. TILLIS, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. CORNYN, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. BENNET, and Mrs. FEINSTEIN): S. 178. A bill to prevent elder abuse and exploitation and improve the justice system’s response to victims in elder abuse and exploitation cases; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

NO MATTER WHAT YOU CALL IT -- CORRUPTION STARTS WITH A GOVERNMENT COVER-UP AND PUNISHMENT -- THE 2ND OLDEST PROFESSION IS A PRIME TARGET

NO MATTER WHAT YOU CALL IT -- CORRUPTION STARTS WITH A GOVERNMENT COVER-UP AND PUNISHMENT -- THE 2ND OLDEST PROFESSION IS A PRIME TARGET.

 

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kenneth ditkowsky	12:24 PM (17 hours ago)

Many have expressed outrage concerning the 'cover up' of corruption that is in the DNA of Illinois and in particular the Chicago political system.    No one was surprised that all members of the City counsel got together with the Mayor of the City of Chicago to spend five million dollars to bribe the potential plaintiffs in the McDonald case not to file or tell the press about the 16 shots that a Chicago police officer poured into the body of not threatening teen - who happened to be black!    No one is surprised that Lanre Amu received a death knoll to his law license because he truthfully exposes a Judge's corruption, what they were surprised was that Crain's Chicago Business made the same allegation and in the face of it Jerome Larkin had no problem breaching his public trust and filing patently false pleadings against Amu.

What was also very surprising was the fact that the color of Amu's skin played such a pivotal role in his punishment.    (And you thought that JIM CROW was dead!)

Democracy in Illinois has been a myth for years.    Like China, Russia, Syria, etal we have a one party government that demonstrates overt corruption at every level.   Like these totalitarian States it is important to hide corruption and while some agencies - such as the Attorney Disciplinary Commission (IARDC) garner public funds to protect the public they regularly breach the public trust to protect one of the most profitable industries in Illinois - THE RETROACTIVE ABORTION cartel.    Indeed, if you have a pesty relative who has lived too long for your liking, the Probate Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County has a whole bunch of Guardians ad Litem (usually attorneys) who can fit you out with a shrink.   This shrink is prepared to testify that the elderly relative is totally incompetent and the GAL allied with a corrupt judge set the stage for a RETROACTIVE ABORTION!

If a non-connected lawyer interferes rest assured Jerome Larkin and his Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission is ready, willing and able to respond and attempt to silence the interference.    If a non-connected lawyers continues to complain or is particularly effective in complaining - bingo - the Illinois Supreme Court is ready to rubberstamp Larkin's frugality with the truth and assaults on the Illinois and Federal Constitution.

Today's Wall Street Journal reports that the LARKIN PLAN is working well in China:

Beijing Breaks Lawyers 

Beijing Breaks Lawyers A jailed lawyer gives a detailed account of how he was tortured, says an editorial in The Wall Street Journal.

In China and here in Illinois politics is the precursor.    politics in Illinois is the quest for dollars, and with a fraud surcharge of 700% there are plenty of dollars to distribute to "deserving" political and judicial elite!

If President Trump is serious about replacing Obamacare -- he is going to have to prosecute not only the miscreants who are preying on the elderly, but the corrupt judges and lawyers who are aiding and abetting the criminal enterprises of Elder Cleansing and Retro=active abortion! 

 

Ken Ditkowsky

www.ditkowskylawoffice.com

Interesting, interesting! They didn’t think the FBI would catch them!

Editor's note: FEDs, don't forget about the crooks running the Probate Court of Cook County.  Move fast...they are destroying files.  The heir's court file for the Alice R. Gore takes up a dozen banker's boxes.  The court file in Cook County is about an inch thick.  The involved judges, lawyers, bankers, insurance companies, hospitals, nursing homes and care givers have much to hide.  Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com

 

This is a summary of previously published information, it is a bit lengthy, but this narrative is worth your time.

Shalom Lamm and his partner Ken Nakdimen who is from Monsey, NY, developers of the controversial high density development project called “The Villages at Chestnut Ridge”, chose the Village of Bloomingburg in Sullivan County, NY not just for it’s bucolic setting – but because they realized the “small town” village government could easily be taken over by newcomers voting in an organized bloc.

The plan was to control the local government and in doing so, create Village zoning and ordinances that would turn Bloomingburg into a new and massive Hasidic community.

In early 2014, in advance of the March Village election, well over 100 “new” Hasidic people registered to vote in Sullivan County, claiming addresses in Bloomingburg connected to properties owned by Lamm.

Informed local residents brought formal challenges to these registrations before the Sullivan County Board of Elections, claiming that these “new” voters were not legal residents for voting purposes at all, but in fact, had been brought in and assigned bogus addresses by the developers to blatantly rig the election in their favor and to take over the Village. (In fact in the December 2016 indictment the accused used deceptive tactics like placing toothpaste and other props in vacant apartments.)

Based on their reading of the challenges and a subsequent investigation which included demands for proof of residency and the Sullivan County Sheriff’s onsite review of the buildings involved, the Sullivan County Board of Elections agreed with the challenges and issued three Notices of Determinations. (Read the Board of Elections’ determinations based on challenges made by residents James Cracolici, John Kahrs, and Anita Hoppe. They make for a very interesting read!)

On March 13, two days after these challenges were submitted, the FBI rolled into Bloomingburg for a massive raid. The Feds raided Shalom Lamm’s buildings (where people claimed to live) – including his offices.

FBI raids Developers Shalom Lamm’s properties in Bloomingburg
http://www.recordonline.com/article/20140314/NEWS/403140348

UPDATED: FBI Raids Bloomingburg Properties Owned By Developer Shalom Lamm In Ongoing Public Corruption Investigation
http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/…/fbi-raids-bloomingburg-p…

According to court testimony from a Sullivan County election commissioner — she heard at the polls during the March 2014 Village election, some new Hasidic voters in Bloomingburg state they didn’t know what street they lived on or what county they were in.

Two more elections followed the March 2014 election and they were both clouded by ongoing challenges to registrations claiming voter fraud. (These two elections determined 1. that the Village would not be dissolved into the Town of Mamakating and 2, put pro-Lamm elected officials into office).

Finally, and to the great relief and satisfaction of the citizens of Mamakating, Bloomingburg and Sullivan County, on December 15, 2016, federal agents arrested Shalom Lamm; his business partner, Kenneth Nakdimen, and a young Satmar man named Volvy “Zev” Smilowitz.

Prosecutors with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York indicted the men on charges of conspiring to corrupt the electoral process. (See below for the press release issued by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.)

Three Real Estate Developers Charged In White Plains Federal Court With Conspiracy To Corrupt The Electoral Process In Bloomingburg, New York
https://www.justice.gov/…/three-real-estate-developers-char…

It also should be noted, that after having reported on the “cultural clash” between the residents of Bloomingburg and the Hasidic newcomers, with little or no interest in the allegations of ongoing corruption and voter fraud, the New York Times pulled out of Bloomingburg and never even reported on the 2014 FBI raid. Never mind that the raid and ongoing saga was reported nationally by many other news outlets. The Times simply refused to cover the story. Now why is that?

It seems Shalom Lamm didn’t think his plan could fail – or maybe as suggested by the three citizen challengers, he wouldn’t have assigned multiple individuals and families to the same addresses and not even bother to assign them apartment or room numbers! Or he wouldn’t have asked people to claim an address in a building he didn’t even own yet! Or he would not have had his own children who were living and working in Israel at the time, register to vote in Bloomingburg.

And as Preet Bharara says: “stay tuned” for possibly more details on the voter fraud from 2014 and more indictments in Bloomingburg, a tiny, tiny village in New York State!

THE PLOT THICKENS
The jump from 396 to 5,000 houses planned for the Bloomingburg Hasidic community: What Lamm’s private emails and documents revealed about his secret development plans despite what he was saying publicly

In secret documents released as part of a lawsuit brought by Shalom Lamm, the developers were exposed in stunning fashion as, among other things, having two sets of plans — one set for the Planning Board to win approval and the other, the real plans, referred to by Nakdimen as the “Yiddishe” plans – for what they intended to actually build.

Additionally, in the emails, those in Mamakating and Bloomingburg opposed to the development, are referred to as the “goyishe enemy.”

See link below for an article and also the attached jpgs of the emails. These are A MUST READ!

5,000 homes planned for Bloomingburg Hasidic community
http://www.recordonline.com/…/5000-homes-planned-for-bloomi…

What’s next? Do the people of Bloomingburg and Mamakating get their Village back? What does the developer’s arrest mean for the future of Hasidic Bloomingburg?

Editorial: Lots to do and re-do in Bloomingburg mess
http://www.recordonline.com/…/editorial-lots-to-do-and-re-d…

What Does Developer’s Arrest Mean for the Future of Hasidic Bloomingburg?
http://forward.com/…/what-does-developers-arrest-mean-for-…/

Editorial: Bloomingburg secrecy needs state attention
http://www.recordonline.com/article/20160427/NEWS/160429415

Stay tuned!

 

Ken Ditkowsky

www.ditkowskylawoffice.com