JUDGE OK's VIOLENCE AGAINST TV SHOW

JUDGE OK's VIOLENCE AGAINST TV SHOW

by Sherman H. Skolnick

From time to time one hears of violence on TV shows. And some believe that promotes a climate of violence in the U.S. In Chicago, however, a Judge has given her stamp of government approval to violence directed AGAINST A TV SHOW. The details:

Chicago has one of the largest public access Cable TV systems in the nation. Cablecast there are a variety of programs, on educational and community issues, local events, and a few on political commentary. Some shows counter the propaganda of the monopoly press.

The producers of such shows, who are not paid, are local residents who have to go to a special school to learn how to properly use the TV studio equipment. Their programs, depending on the popularity, are cablecast within the Windy City to upwards of 400,000. Some are also later used in the suburban public access systems. "On the air" since 1991, has been our weekly one-hour taped program called "Broadsides", one of the favorites on public access. The logo is a sketch of an old warship, the opening music being Peter Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" with cannons shooting. I

have been a regular panelist from the beginning and since 1995, the moderator/producer of the Shows. Although our shows are taped for later showing, nothing is ever censored. We have had as guests, political candidates, some for high office. Every such election show I always ask: "If you are elected, what will YOU do about what some contend is the American CIA flooding dope into the U.S. through Chicago?" The usual cop-out answer, "I don't know anything about the CIA." I

Also always ask, "Some contend the ultra-rich, such as the Rockefellers, the Mellons, the Morgans, and the Marshall Fields, pay little if any taxes, because they corruptly influence tax collectors. Thus not supporting the infrastructure of America. So, hospitals, libraries, schools,, and roads are often out of funds and bankrupt. If elected, what will YOU do to tax such sacred cows?" I have never, on-camera, received a straight answer.

I have in the past often wondered why such candidates come on my Show at all. After a program, a campaign chief for such a candidate told me, "Skolnick, you have a big audience. If my client can survive your big mouth, they can survive anything the other side can throw at them."

We have aired with a lot of details, topics such as:

===Key federal judges who own and operate banks jointly with lawyer-cronies, sometimes in combination with criminal enterprises. When that bank is a litigant in their Court, the judges do NOT step down. Guess who wins in their crooked court? "Chicken" lawyers are silent.

===key commercial TV reporters and managers who are assets of America's secret political police, the CIA and the FBI. And are beholden to the American Gestapo, the IRS. All of them promoting the BIG LIE on THEIR TV Shows.

===important, smelly financial cases in court, forbidden to be discussed by the pressfakers.

===political murders falsely described in the press as done by "lone assassins".

===how major newspapers and their circulation departments are tied to criminals. Such as, the Chicago Tribune, going all the way back to 1910 and thereafter.

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Corrupt high-level state and federal government officials are often targets of our past shows or to be on upcoming shows. We have asserted how James E. Ryan, Illinois Attorney General is tied to the Mob. He once lived right near my TV associate, Joseph Andreuccetti who ran into Ryan in a local park. Ryan said, "We are going to GET you and Skolnick for what you are doing".

Years ago, as the head of a court reform group, our work led to the jailing for bribery of the former Director of the Illinois Department of Revenue. In recent years, we have fingered the more current chief state tax extractor. He and top Chicago IRS officials are reportedly silent partners in a west suburban shopping mall, Cermak Plaza Shopping Center, jointly with reputed criminal money laundry types. According to mandatory federal judicial financial disclosure records, the shopping center is owned by Chicago U.S. District Judge George M. Marovich [(312)435-5590], who also owns and operates a bank.

Tied into this is the one now Illinois Treasurer, Judy Baar Topinka, who was once on our show. We showed in undisputed matters in court, that this gang, although supposedly Republicans, are surrogates for First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, supposedly a Democrat, and Hillary put us on her "enemies list" to inflict dirty tricks on us.

By putting us under intense surveillance, they found out:

===We kept some secret documents about high-level corruption at the home of my associate Joseph Andreuccetti who along with his wife, Noemi, assists in the planning and production of our TV programs. And since I am a paraplegic in a wheelchair, he often transports me in his vehicle.

===The high-level corrupt officials found out we were working on a further series of shows about their massive corruption, forbidden to be discussed by "The Liars and Whores of the Press" as labeled by us. The presslords need favors from these government gangsters. Such as, the headquarters for CBS's outlet in Chicago, WBBM-TV, Channel 2, although a commercial, profit-making enterprise, has arranged with them to make themselves supposedly "exempt" from many taxes. And, as the corrupt drug police are in a position to know, some of the TV News trucks reportedly carry around a white powder that is not from a sugar bowl.

Since May, 1997, I and Joseph Andreuccetti have had pending in court a damage suit against these top corrupt government officials who have been doing dirty tricks to interfere with our TV Shows about THEM. On August 28, 1997, this gang arranged the following:

A four-person, heavily-armed, Gestapo-like team forced their way at gunpoint into the suburban residence of Joseph and Noemi Andreucceti. This force was made up of two state agents and two purported suburban police. WITHOUT A SEARCH WARRANT, they examined every corner of the dwelling, examining records and documents for our upcoming anti-corruption shows. They plundered and removed the following, among other things:

===records and details relating to a then upcoming TV Show about the IRS/State Revenue/mobster/Federal Judge shopping center as a reputed money laundry. And that the tax collectors help criminals evade massive amounts of taxes.

===how the then Chief Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Chicago has an offshore secret net worth of 140 million dollars reportedly from corrupt means and has not filed a proper tax return in 30 years.

===how top IRS and State Revenue officials steal property and assets, NOT FOR THE PUBLIC TREASURY, but for their own personal benefit,including properties and monies belonging to Joseph Andreuccetti.

===how 50 million dollars of federal funds were secretly transferred from Chicago to Little Rock to try to help Bill and Hillary Clinton evade being prosecuted for federal criminal charges of bank embezzlement.

===records and documents needed to proceed in the already then pending court case against this corrupt gang of public officials.

===how the Chicago Tribune had a then upcoming scheme to falsely label the late Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, father of the current mayor Richie Daley, as being a "communist-sympathizer". This, since the Tribune was out to defame the Daley family being supporters of Vice President Albert Gore, Jr. The Tribune was able to go forward with their scheme on the front page of the paper, 8/31/97, based on false and fraudulent FBI records known by the Tribune bosses as being false and fraudulent.

The Gestapo-like force, without cause or provocation, then and there on August 28, 1997, threatened to shoot Noemi Andreuccetti in the presence of her tiny grandchildren which she and Joseph take care of during the day regularly. At gunpoint, the criminals forced the Andreuccettis to abandon their grandchildren on the floor in an open house. This, to lay the basis for a possible slander against the Andreuccettis that they do not take proper care of tiny children in their custody.

These government gangsters in the presence of Joseph, got on the phone from his residence, and threatened Skolnick that similar things are going to happen to him. The criminals admitted they knew Skolnick is the moderator and producer of TV Shows about the bosses of this Gestapo and that Skolnick is a paraplegic invalid and gets help from time to time, in his work by the Andreuccettis. Noemi Andreuccetti is also a witness in the already then pending case.

On September 5, 1997, as shown by the court record, we informed Cook County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Duncan-Brice [(312) 603-6058] as follows: That the defendants arranged through their agents to threaten to shoot a witness in the case, Noemi Andreuccetti, for the purpose of terrorizing us to drop the case and stop our TV Shows about the defendants corruption; and that the defendants WITHOUT A SEARCH WARRANT, stole records we needed to prove the pending case and for upcoming shows about the defendants corruption; that there was, as quoted in the court record, "a violent obstruction of justice". The Judge refused to do anything about this. One of the defendants named in the case is described as the head of a wire-tapper ring that works for the government officials named as defendants. Also the head wire-tapper also has been, for more than 25 years, immune from prosecution as a successful "bagman", escaping punishment by blackmail for bribing and corrupting top Chicago IRS officials and State Revenue bosses.

On October 1, 1997, one of the senior state officials, a defendant in the case, in the hallway of a public building in the presence of me and Joseph Andreuccetti, threatened terrible harm against Joseph's wife there present. Used to mouth the threats was a cohort of the key official. The purpose was to terrorize Noemi, to induce us to stop the TV Shows about the defendants corruption and to drop the pending court matter.

On that same day, I and Joseph had a 3-1/4 hour meeting with two key IRS officials. They found out we were about to go "on the air" with the confession of the long-time "bagman" and chief wire-tapper. They said if we go on the air with such a show, that they will be there to arrange to arrest us. How did we counter this threat? We put on the air a one hour show with the confession. As a backdrop, we used a huge enlargement of the business card of one these IRS gangsters. The IRS Commissioner, in Washington, D.C. obtained a copy of our TV Show and lamely alleges he will supposedly "investigate" the corruption involved. The U.S. Treasury Department's Inspector General has informed us that they will supposedly also "investigate". We informed them we have no confidence in the IRS bosses. According to law enforcement personnel, the Acting Inspector General, Robert Cesca, was reportedly, "the highest ranking mafia representative in the U.S. government".

We also did a show with details about State, Federal, and local officials who are surrogates for the corruption of the Clinton White House, entitled "Corruption: Chicago to the White House". A State official, already a defendant in court in our cases, arranged WITHOUT A SEARCH WARRANT to seize the master tape of our TV Show and refuses to return it. (Don't waste my time telling me about my First Amendment rights. At the hands of corrupt judges and officials, our rights are cancelled.)

In a recess in one of the court hearings, Judge Duncan-Brice's courtroom bailiff, in the hallway, threatened to falsely arrest me and deprive me of my liberty, figuring maybe by terrorizing me, a paraplegic in a wheelchair, that I am some kind of weakling and will stop our TV Shows and drop the court case. I complained to the Judge to no avail.

Pending in the fall of 1999 was our Third Amended Complaint, 62 pages of up-to-date, highly specific facts, dates, and details. At no time did any of the defendants dispute or challenge the facts as stated, about their violence orchestrated against us, about high-level corruption of them as government officials as mentioned on our TV Shows; that they were committing acts and doings to try to block our TV Shows by violence by their cronies.

All the details in this story are from the undisputed court records.

On December 1, 1999, Judge Duncan-Brice entered an Order approving of this violence against us and our TV Shows and refusing us any court remedy. Thereafter, we filed a written Motion demanding that the Judge wipe out her rulings since she lost jurisdiction by permitting and condoning all these things to happen to us, including "violent obstruction of justice". That by permitting and condoning these things to happen to us, the Judge lost jurisdiction by denying us Due Process, orderly proceedings, and the Equal Protection of the Laws, guaranteed to us by the State and Federal Constitution which the Judge had taken an oath to support.We demanded that the Judge stop blocking us, as she did all during the case, from questioning under oath, called "discovery" procedures, the corrupt top government officials who are defendants in the case. We demanded the Judge send our case to another judge. Attached to our Motion was about 800 pages of documents of defendants' corruption. These records, stolen from us at gunpoint by defendants, mysteriously were in part returned to us in a package with no return address, about the time of the Judge's ruling.

On March 17, 2000, both I and Joseph were actually present in Court for a hearing on our Motion. I repeated some of the matters in our written papers. I repeated the outrages the Judge permitted and condoned to happen to us during the pendency of the case and that the Judge thereby lost jurisdiction over us and our case. The Judge had in her hands on the bench our huge pile of documents of corruption of the defendants. Without much explanation, Judge Duncan-Brice rejected our Motion and threw us out of Court.

So, if a TV Show dares tell the truth about high-level government corruption, including media corruption, is there violence against those who do the show? Judge for yourself. This situation has mushroomed out, so that there are five cases by us pending against these government gangsters. So far, with a few exceptions, no judge has dared, because of being blackmailed, of effectively seeking to stop these happenings. The tax collectors, as America's Gestapo, blackmail Judges as well, threatening to audit THEIR taxes, and that of their family, or threatening to investigate certain judges who for years have not filed a proper tax return.

Click on the following, to view a court transcript of the hearing of 3/17/2000 and a picture of Judge Jennifer Duncan-Brice.

1- Court transcript Pages

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2- Picture of Judge Duncan-Brice

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THE FBI REPORTEDLY PROTECTS THE REAL MOB IN CHICAGO, Part One

THE FBI REPORTEDLY PROTECTS THE REAL MOB IN CHICAGO, Part One
by Sherman H. Skolnick

"They are willfully blind". That is the way some describe the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Chicago. Of course, minor gangsters ARE targeted. Long-time FBI dicatator, the late J. Edgar Hoover repeatedly claimed there was no Crime Syndicate. Big-time criminals were blackmailing Hoover on his homosexuality. And hoodlum bigshots in the liquor industry even set up a Foundation for Hoover's financial benefit. (See, Anthony Summers, "Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J.Edgar Hoover", Putnam, N.Y., 1993.)
In 1974, there was a 25 million dollar robbery of a vault used to store large sums of money in transit for an armored truck business, at the time a division called Purolator. The money was supposedly recovered by the then U.S. Attorney in Chicago, James "Big Jim" Thompson. For him, FBI agents carried the recovered loot in the trunk of their cars but somehow reportedly "neglected" to count how many bags of cash there were or to mark the bags with identifying markings.
Guess who did the counting? Why, a reputed gangster-linked enterprise called Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, politically and criminally tied to Big Jim and his cohorts in the federal bureaucracy. They counted and counted and counted, and said they find only two million dollars. Really? The rest went apparently to further the political ambitions of Big Jim who was elected Illinois Governor in 1976 and stayed there for 14 years.
Although Thompson was a close pal of the Rockefeller family, he had to supply a lot of "his own money" for political campaigns.
An accused vault guard in custody kept saying the money was twenty five million dollars and was grabbed by Nixon's pals, a left over detail of the Watergate Affair. In jail, the guard was pumped full of forget-me drugs to silence him. An apprehended reputed minor gangster hired private investigators to help with his court defense. As shown by the voluminous, undisputed federal court records, the gumshoes unraveled vast FBI criminal enterprises, including stolen farm and construction equipment taken across state lines, and converted by crooked FBI officials in Chicago for re-sale for their own financial benefit. A top FBI inspector in Chicago, who apparently helped Thompson divide up the recovered Purolator vault loot, was quietly allowed to escape prosecution and take an early retirement.
[From the tremendous undisputed court files in the group of cases known as the Marzano matters.]
One of the times Big Jim was re-elected as governor there was massive vote fraud, to favor him, covered up by the FBI n Chicago. After 14 years as Illinois Governor, Thompson became the head of a huge law factory, Winston & Strawn, headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Washington, and worldwide. Their overseas offices were reportedly part of the international dope traffic tied to Red China. They reportedly had an inner circle, not in the law business at all, but links to nefarious activities. [Through a relative, Beryl Anthony, there were reported links to Vincent W. Foster, Jr. and his law partner Hillary Rodham Clinton. Before his short-lived, ill-fated position in the Clinton White House, Foster was a super bank money launderer with Hillary. Read about Foster and why he had to be murdered: GREENSPAN REPORTEDLY AIDS AND BRIBES GEORGE BUSH and FAMILY, Part Three
In 1994, we did a one-hour public access Cable TV show about Big Jim and the dope traffic, confirmed by sources within his law offices and corroborated by us elsewhere. Of course, the Chicago FBI did nothing to pursue these details.
Little understood are the links of Bill/Hillary to the REPUBLICANS as well as the Democrats. Their GOP crony has been George H. Ryan, a reputed long-time criminal who was for several years Illinois Secretary of State, and in 1998 elected Illinois Governor.
The office of Illinois Secretary of State has a long history of corruption. Holding that office in the 1960s, was an enterprising criminal named Paul Powell who dressed in dreary black garments like a mortician. Those applying for drivers licenses and car and truck title registration and such had to make their payments payable TO PAUL POWELL. Since it was made out to his name, he figured it was perfectly okay to pocket those checks and money orders. [Some people just made the remittances TO PAUL POWELL, not Paul Powell, Illinois Secretary of State.] Powell kept shoeboxes full of those payments in his hotel apartment. One mistake. Being a cheapskate, he did not tip the maid who discovered the shoeboxes with the loot in his closet. She turned him in.
By the time he was put on federal criminal trial, Powell had bladder trouble. You could see his accidental urinating down the carpet to the courtroom. A group of reporters one day asked me if I would shake hands with Powell who was walking near my wheelchair. "Look, outside I sometime get dirt on my hands from wheeling this chair. Now you want me to shake hands with a pisser criminal? No thanks. Tell Powell to shake hands with his lawyers, the judge, and the jurors. Not me." I said in my sometimes sarcastic tone.
In later years, the Illinois Secretary of State was Alan Dixon. As his predecessors, Dixon reportedly continued a tradition of catering to the bigtime mobsters. He apparently arranged for them to have secret car title and license registrations so that the FBI, even if they wanted to, could not trace the license plates during surveillance. Also, Dixon reportedly had a close relative in the "chop shop" business in which like-new cars are stolen for their parts used through certain mob-favorite auto repair shops and such. Typically, the mobsters then and now grab cars from shopping malls, using innocent-appearing tow trucks taking away supposedly disabled cars. Nobody notices. To re-sell the stolen car motors, the car-kidnappers have to file down the car motor number. For this, of course, they need the corrupt connivance of the Illinois Secretary of State since such number has to appear on all manner of auto and truck vehicle forms.
According to our investigations, we found out that there was a secret meeting of "chop shop" owners including reportedly Illinois Secretary of State Alan Dixon's close relative. One of the more "independent" car choppers bitterly complained that Dixon was favoring his relative and allowing that relative to horn in on other chop shop owners' territories. After all, criminals are supposed to have enough honor to stay within their own alloted fiefdom. Any jackass gangster knows that much.
The loudmouth "chop shop" owner was appropriately dealt with. He was found murdered. As a father, he left behind more than a dozen children. The FBI failed to investigate. And with the blessings of the willfully blind Chicago FBI, Alan Dixon went on the become U.S. Senator from Illinois.
About 1980, the head of a vast, interstate chopshop racket was thinking about saving himself from prison by fingering corrupt Chicago FBI officials and FBI agents assigned to the Justice Department's joke, the Organized Crime Strike Force. On the way from court, the chop shop kingpin and his girl friend were murdered on a relatively quiet road by a killer team from the government Strike Force. Mobster assets in the press had been at the Court hearing. They knew what and who really killed the chop shopper but they remained silent.
One of those who was in a position to know about such things was a mob mouthpiece at CBS' Chicago outlet, WBBM-TV, Channel 2. That media mobster once came to my house supposedly to interview me. He wanted to photograph the contents of my house. "I want to see how you live, Sherman", he said. "I am not convinced you are going to say anything good about me," I told him bluntly.I made this Las Vegas-style dressed TV reporter talk to me on the street. He put on the air a three-minute piece made up mostly of how I wheel my wheelchair down the sidewalk of my residence. What the devil is news about that? I thought. Most all I said on film was edited out.
An honorable member of the Strike Force, retired from an intelligence agency, was repeatedly marked for murder by the criminals within the Justice Department team. They suspected he was passing details of FBI/Justice Department corruption to certain independent-minded commentators. We have his highly detailed confidential report of this high-level corruption, which he have on our own also corroborated, in our files.
Among the other duties of the Illinois Secretary of State, similar to other states as well, is keeping records and charters and such, of corporations. Those headquartered in Illinois are called domestic corporations. Those out-of-state (NOT overseas) are called "foreign corporations". The Illinois Secretary of State, similar to other states, is in a wonderful position to blackmail. Important records of criminal enterprises that are "incorporated" are conveniently NOT available to be retrieved from the computer of the Corporation Division. That type of black-out service for criminals is, of course, not for free. Over the years, I and my associates got into the Corporation Division more or less "secret" records, supposed to be "public records" but really not available to the public. We are convinced that the Illinois Secretary of State traditionally shelters criminals. And the Chicago FBI knows about all this and is willfully blind. They sleep with the bigtime criminals.
The Chicago FBI has been supposedly investigating a scandal involving the Illinois Secretary of State's personnel reportedly taking numerous bribes to issue licenses to would-be truck drivers who are not really eligible, because, among other things, they cannot read or understand English as required by law to be able to read traffic signs and such. Some of the bribes were passed along as campaign contributions to the previous Illinois Secretary of State, George H. Ryan, since 1998 elected Illinois Governor. He claims he does not know anything about it.
In the process, the Chicago FBI has dodged looking into the real stuff, like the foregoing details. More in this series. Stay tuned.

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THE AMERICAN GESTAPO AND ELIAN GONZALEZ AND MEMORIES

THE AMERICAN GESTAPO AND
ELIAN GONZALEZ AND MEMORIES
by Sherman H. Skolnick

It was on the screen of some people who remember, with pain and fright, similar events. There it was, a heavily-armed, Gestapo-like team, without an arrest or search warrant, come to rip Elian Gonzalez away. What some call the monopoly press have no time or inclination to find and interview those who had similar experiences. If it happened years ago to a political dissident, the press hounds are not interested. After all, so the common wisdom goes, if you have a big mouth and are anti-Establishment, you get what you deserve. I ought to know the feeling. It happened to me, on a Thursday, in March, 1980, twenty years ago as I write this. The nation was facing a financial meltdown because of what became known as the "Silver Collapse". Several large stock and commodity brokers were facing bankruptcy because the price of silver, pushed by rampant speculation to over 50 dollars per ounce, had fallen off the cliff.
As later admitted in print, the head of the Federal Reserve had a secret emergency meeting with bankers. The meeting was so sudden, the Fed Chief met the bankers in his bathrobe. Several large banks, tied to the silver gambling, were facing going under. There was a danger of a run on banks. The secret police were ordered to take extra-legal, emergency measures, and to hell with the Constitution. At the time, I was a well-known college lecturer. Despite my disability from childhood, as a paraplegic from polio, I traveled around the nation including to nearby states like Indiana, in a specially-set up vehicle, giving public speeches and conducting seminars. Advertisements had already announced that for the coming Saturday, I was scheduled to give a controversial seminar on, as I expected, the then upcoming bank collapse.
Right near my front door, I was standing on my braces and crutches. I was waiting for a woman friend who was enroute to take me to the barber and then to lunch. As she backed up to my home driveway, another car pulled up near my sidewalk and two men, dressed in very dark clothes, jumped out and ran up to me. "Are you Sherman Skolnick?" they barked at me. "Yes" I answered. "Are you armed?" they demanded to know.
I responded in the most foolish, almost fatal response of my life. "I am an Orthodox Jew. I carry no gun." [I should have added, The Almighty Is My Rock and My Weapon.] As they rushed up to me, I could see they were heavily armed. [A thought, much later, occurred to me. If I had a gun, would I lose my balance on my crutches and fall if I tried to hold the gun and shoot?]
As they grabbed me, I cried "I must have my folding wheelchair!" which was a few feet away. They were not interested to know. They shoved me like a sack of potatoes into the front seat of their car.
I screamed, "Harriet, call the police!" [I did not know at the time that this was the secret police.] As she rushed up to their car, she put her hand into the open window. They put up the electric window, almost driving off with her arm inside.
They drove me from my residence in Chicago, Illinois, across the State line to Indiana. They knew I could not run away, so they stopped at McDonald's, not for me but for themselves. It was right near a pay phone. I called a friend collect and blurted out, "I may be cut off any moment. I'm being kidnapped. Pray for me."
After a long ride, they drove up through the electric truck entrance door of a distant jail. They dumped me into a jail wheelchair and rolled me over to the Warden. "You keep him here, no questions" they commanded the Warden. I was put in a solitary cell, reserved for desperate criminals.
The Warden opened the cell door and entered. "Please understand, I do not know why you are here. I have to follow orders", he said with a sad look. "I understand your condition. I have a brother, a paraplegic, wounded from Viet Nam. Maybe I can figure out a way to send you over to the State Penitentiary that has a hospital section", he said, visibly upset. "Look, Warden, I am not sick. I don't need a hospital," I answered.
A day later he again entered my jail cell. "I found out who you are, Mr. Skolnick. I am running a terrible risk to try to help you. I found out you are a friend of the former head of the Crime Commission in this part of the State. I called him. Sunday morning is a quiet time. I told him to pull up his car into the truck entrance electric door, like he is delivering something here. I am going to roll you into a blanket and put you on the floor of the back seat of his car. He promised to take only the back roads and get you back to your home. I don't know what they will do to me for releasing you. But you better stop doing whatever it is you are doing. Next time may be worse for you." He said this, his face plainly filled with compassion.
"Warden, where is the arrest warrant? What am I charged with? What crime have I committed? At what trial have I been found guilty?" I pleaded with him. "Please, Mr. Skolnick, I already told you I do not know why you are here. I was ordered by the highest authority to keep you here. Promise me, you will never, never cross the State line back to Indiana," he answered.
Smuggled out the side door into the truck entrance, I got back to my home, my Crime Commission friend driving at high speed on little used back roads, just like we had just robbed a bank.
Some of my relatives showed no understanding, condemning me with statements, like "You got what you deserve. Why don't you shut your rotten big mouth?"
When some of my more understanding friends take me places, I always tell them, with a sarcastic sneer, "My passports to Indiana and Cuba have been revoked. Do not cross the State boundary line with me in the car."
After I got home, I found out that the local police in my neighborhood refused to take a report from my woman friend. They showed her a copy of a bulletin on the FBI National Crime Computer Wire, "Sherman Skolnick, of Chicago, a heavily-armed, desperate, escaped criminal and fugitive from justice. Shoot on sight if necessary."
As a result of the incident, it was the only public speech and seminar I missed in forty years in the public eye. Assuming I knew or found out exactly who the secret police are and were, I decided nevertheless not to sue for false arrest. My reasoning would take too long to detail.
So the American Gestapo, without arrest or search warrants, breaking into the home where Elian Gonzalez was, brings back memories. Am I the only one with memories of the secret police in the United States, dealing with dissident and controversial persons? Probably not.
Like any banana republic, America has secret political police, nameless, faceless, heavily-armed, subject to no law. Unless we can correct this situation, our Constitution is justifiably dead. This Gestapo follows the orders of the Commissar who runs the conspiratorial, private central bank known as the Federal Reserve, or orders of a Dictator posing as the President, or the head of the Injustice Department, or secret orders not identified from whom.

Nowadays, if the secret police come again to my door, they might notice there a decal from the National Rifle Association. Stay tuned.

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Elian Gonzalez And Cuba And The Spy Business

Elian Gonzalez And Cuba And The Spy Business
by Sherman H. Skolnick

To open up a supposedly "closed" country to big business, the robber barons need a trick. In the early 1970s, Red China was pried open by President Nixon to Rockefeller deals by sending in a ping pong team as a publicity/propaganda stunt. The Rockefeller-owned First National Bank of Chicago loaned Red China billions of dollars. As part of re-payment and reciprocal trade, mainland China has been allowed with impunity, via Chicago as an intake point, to flood the U.S. with their dope, called "China White".

[The rest of the details are in my series on the Red Chinese Secret Police in the U.S.]

Likewise, Chicago has become part of a scheme to re-establish international cartels in Cuba, the monopolies and their Cuba-based assets having been expropriated by Fidel Castro in his rise to power.

Reportedly tied to dope money laundering through the Chicago markets, Clinton, a Rockefeller agent, was saved from removal from presidential office by the U.S. Senate, key members of which were subject to blackmail.[More in later stories.] Clinton has been too valuable as a created puppet to simply throw away. Right after escaping removal, he found an excuse to bomb out Serbia, to soften up the region for the oil companies and their southern European plots in respect to oil pipelines and shipments from the developing oil-rich Caspian area of the former Soviet Union.

To help pry open Cuba for international swindlers and exploiters, the Clinton White House and their patrons were prepared to use any artifice workable or to create one. The Elian Gonzalez Affair was convenient if not staged. Some contend a CIA operative reportedly unlawfully removed Elian from the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service authorities who ordinarily would have simply shipped the boy right back to Cuba.

Another part of the same Cuban can-opener machine was George H. Ryan, elected Illinois Governor in 1998, amid commotions that he reportedly "bought" the Illinois State Elections Board to win a close election. Ryan has also been the focus of a drivers license bribery scandal. Numerous would-be truck drivers, some not eligible because they did not speak or read English, necessary to understand traffic signs, bought their licenses by bribing state officials.

Prior to becoming Governor, Ryan had been Illinois Secretary of State that runs the drivers license facilities. Quite a number of those that had been working for Ryan have pleaded guilty to federal charges of taking bribes to issue unlawful licenses. Many claim, however, they did not keep the bribes but forwarded the loot, as they had been pressured by Ryan's henchmen, to Ryan's GOP campaign for Governor. Ryan says he knows from nothing but is willing to contribute heavily to charity, some of the ill-gotten funds, to show his "good faith".

An elite IRS team reportedly recommended to the Justice Department that Ryan be prosecuted for bribery, as to the State Elections Board mess as well as the drivers license scandals. The Clinton Justice Department, still loaded with personnel installed by President George Herbert Walker Bush, reportedly corruptly scrapped the IRS referral. And most who rely only on the monopoly press do not realize that Bill Clinton is a closet Republican making corrupt deals with Chicago-area Republicans. [I and a TV associate of mine, Joseph Andreuccetti, taped a one-hour public access Cable TV Program for our weekly series "Broadsides", entitled "Corruption: Chicago to the White House". Without a search warrant, Clinton GOP surrogates seized the master tape of the show and refuse to return it to us. It is now the subject of five lawsuits by us against Clinton's culprits.]

About the time of the starting of the Elian Gonzalez Affair, Illinois Governor Ryan announced he was going to Cuba, as a purported goodwill gesture okayed apparently by the State Department. Ryan trumpeted he was bringing along some two million dollars of items donated by pharmaceutical firms receiving a tax write-off. Some government sources, however, contend a top Ryan crony arranged a deal with drug store type operations in Cuba, starved for such items, to re-sell the charity goods for about thirty million dollars. Ryan's circle reportedly was to get a one-third kick-back. The IRS elite team has reportedly made a second referral to the Justice Department, to no avail, that they prosecute Ryan for this further apparent bribery.

As a follow up deal, Ryan, with the reported help of an international lawyer based in the Chicago area, reportdly arranged with an Illinois riverboat gambling casino to explore the possiblities of helping Cuba raise money for their U.S. embargo-troubled economy, by gambling casinos being permitted to re-start in Cuba but under Cuban control. That is, Cuba would get a per centage rake-off of the casino take while supposedly tightly supervising the casino operations. [In Illinois, the state officials regulating riverboat gambling casinos are appointed by Ryan and there have been regulatory scandals while the Cuban matter has gone on. Ryan reportedly gets casino kick-backs similar to an ex-governor of Louisiana prosecuted for such bribes.]

Little-known are federal laws that permit gambling casinos to wire transfer funds worldwide similar to banks, an additional device for money laundering. [For related stories, visit our series on Greenspan/Bush and the secret wire transfer records.]

The public seems to have no understanding of how gambling casinos supposedly run by mobsters, were taken over by former top Justice Department officials of the Organized Crime Strike Force, reportedly running their own criminal enterprises. A case in point is Paradise Island in the Bahamas. The toll bridge to the island is reportedly owned by the Richard M. Nixon Estate which gets an income whether the gambling casino shows a profit or not. Paradise Island was taken over by two former Strike Force bosses, William G. Hundley and Robert Peloquin, who co-founded International Intelligence, Incorporated. Intertel as it is called is made up of former "spooks" of various U.S. and some foreign intelligence agencies. They supposedly are dedicated to a "clean", mob-free operation. In its simplest form, however, it is lawmen killing off or framing up mobsters and then taking over their game.

Read lots of details about Intertel in the book by Jim Hougan, "Spooks-The Terrifying True Story of Spies-for-Hire and Their Secret, Dirty War" (Bantam Books paperback edition, 1979.) Unfortunately or fortunately, I as head of a court reform group found out a great deal about Intertel.

In 1969, I publicly fingered most of the judges on state's highest court, the Illinois Supreme Court, as bribe-takers tied to a bank across the street from some of the judges Chicago office. A State Legislature impeachment committee hired a special counsel to interview me several times in my home. Not disclosed to me during the interviews was the lawyer, William G. Hundley, with his law-partner, both former Justice Department Strike Force officials, were running the mob-successor operation, with intelligence agency operatives, on Paradise Island. Both were kingpins in the Valachi Affair.

When I then fought the Paradise Island gang in Chicago's crooked courts, for trying to mislead me, in what turned out to be the biggest judicial bribery scandal in U.S. history, guess who showed up to lean on the local judges to protect the new mob on Paradise Island? Why, Henry Hyde, long an operative of Naval Intelligence. Hyde went on to become a U.S. Congressman and later, head of the House Judiciary Committee that led a watered-down, sex-episode only, no treason charges, so-called attack on President Clinton, the Impeachment Resolution of 1998.

Two former FBI agents, part of Intertel, were the ones who kidnapped me in 1980, as a commentator on bank collapses, during a period of bank commotions, as apparently ordered by the then head of the Federal Reserve. I was kept in a distant jail without the Warden there knowing originally who I am and why I was there, and without an arrest warrant.[Visit my story on my website, "The American Gestapo, Elian Gonzalez, and Memories".]

In a series I wrote on the corrupt IRS I told about how top IRS officials and former officials operate a gambling casino boat, as a reputed money laundry, in the Caribbean. George H. Ryan reportedly is tied to the gang of government gangsters and the boat as well as dope traffickers in Jamaica. All of it part of the reputed Intertel mob that has been apparently orchestrating the Elian Gonzalez Affair. The tie-in is reportedly through Intertel's secret Chicago office. This is a developing story.

Compare the foregoing details to the propaganda blitz about George H. Ryan's trip to Cuba:

Chicago Tribune "Cuba-Illinois courtship on" 10/6/1999. Chicago Tribune "Cuba Trip has Ryan toeing a fine line" 10/24/1999. ChicagoTribune "Ryan gives boost to religion in Cuba" 10/25/1999.

This is all apparently a media bombardment for big racketeers to open the door to Cuba and "tourism".

Stay tuned.


http://www.skolnicksreport.com/elianspy.html

Billion Dollars In Reported Bribes To Apparently Effect Presidential Election

Billion Dollars In Reported
Bribes To Apparently Effect
Presidential Election

by Sherman H. Skolnick

Remember the words of Richard Milhous Nixon? "The people have to know whether their president is a crook. And I am not a crook!"

That should echo into the ear of George H. Ryan. He was elected on the GOP ticket in 1998 as Illinois Governor in a very close election. According to polls, if a third party were on the gubernatorial ballot, Ryan could not have been elected. There was about a 3 per cent difference in votes between Ryan and his Democrat opponent, Glenn Poshard.

According to our exclusive stories, and not denied, Ryan reportedly paid off some on the Illinois State Board of Elections to arbitrarily kick off the ballot a third party that was expected to pull upwards of 8 per cent of the vote for Governor. Some one million dollars was reportedly split between some elections board officials and state and federal revenue bosses who blackmailed their way into the bribery melon.

According to our previous exclusive stories, and never denied, an elite IRS team, however, made a referral to the Justice Department that they proceed with federal criminal prosecution of Ryan for reputed bribery:

(1) For the reported Elections Board corruption instigated by Ryan;

(2) For Ryan benefitting from large sums to Ryan for his election campaign, reportedly obtained by his henchmen requiring bribes garnered by his employees at his previous post to be turned over. These were bribes to then employees of Ryan to issue drivers licenses to those not eligible. These reported bribes were in Ryan's previous position as Illinois Secretary of State in charge of statewide drivers license facilities. A number of those then working for Ryan have already pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges of bribery but said that THEY did not keep the bribe loot but turned it over to Ryan who does not remember them or getting it.

We have also previously exclusively stated, and was never denied, that the elite IRS team, after the first Justice Department rejection, made a second referral that Ryan be prosecuted for further bribery in reported kick-backs. In the fall of 1999, Ryan went to Cuba in a reputed goodwill tour to bring two million dollars of items donated by pharmaceutical firms who got a tax write-off. The items were given to Cuba-based drug store-type operations to be quietly resold for some 30 million dollars to Cubans made anxious for such by the U.S. embargo. With reported kick-backs to Ryan, via one of his top cronies in State government, Ryan reported got part of 30 per cent of the 30 million dollars of supposed charity items.

In addition, according to the IRS team's reported referral, and never denied, they asked the Justice Department to begin the federal criminal prosecution of Ryan for reported kick-backs from riverboat gambling casinos supervised by Ryan's appointees to the Illinois Gaming Commission racked with scandals.

Also, in one of our exclusive previous stories, and never denied, Ryan is reportedly implicated with corrupt top State revenue officials and present and former IRS officials from Chicago who operate a gambling casino boat in the Caribbean as a reputed floating money laundry for dope and other illicit proceeds. By a series of arrangements, as we have previously explained, there are reported links to those who apparently orchestrated the Elian Gonzalez caper.

While the further IRS elite team's referrals to the Justice Department were pending, asking for the prosecution of Ryan for various reported bribery, he reportedly gave bribes or gifts to various State Democrat officials to get or buy their assistance in several nefarious projects:

(1) to persuade top Illinois Democrats to pressure the Clinton Justice Department NOT to prosecute Ryan for various reputed bribes, thus rejecting the IRS team's referrals.

(2) to ostensibly get top Illinois Democrats to forget about supporting Albert Gore, Jr., for President and instead, somehow, throw their weight in support of George W. Bush for the White House. Of course, some people are not yet ready to accept our labeling of Bill Clinton as a closet Republican tied to highly corrupt Illin by Governor Ryan to get key Illinois Democrats to dump Gore and push George W. Bush,right? and to put in the fix with Justice [Department] to save Ryan from jail, right?"

And look what happened to almost two dozen key reporters stationed in Illinois in the print and electronic media: A wired up "mole" who they accepted as a fellow reporter, got many key reporters into a discussion of the reputed ONE BILLION DOLLARS of bribes by Ryan to top Illinois Democrats and others.

Here are some sample details from the mole's "wire":

Question (to print media hotshots): "You know about the billion dollars of bribes reportedly doled out by Governor Ryan to get key Illinois Democrats to dump Gore and push George W. Bush,right? and to put in the fix with Justice [Department] to save Ryan from jail, right?"

Answer (similar from each reporter): "Of course we know, but don't quote me. We have confirmed it from our reliable sources. But we are told to skip it."

Question: "By whom?"

Answer: "Oh, you know, the assistant editor, the editor, you know, the higher-ups, the brass."

Question: "So you believe the story has legs. Is it going anywhere?"

Answer (similar from each reporter): "The story is correct, confirmed. But it is spiked, dead."

Question (to electronic media hotshots): "So you know key Illinois Democrats got part of the billion dollar bundle, from Governor Ryan,right? To get Justice [Department] to save Governor Ryan and to dump Gore in favor of Bush, right?"

Answer (similar from each electronic media hotshot): "Oh, every one here knows the story is correct from various good sources. But it isn't going anywere."

Question: "Why?"

Answer (similar from each reporter): "Oh, you know, the news director said to get the heck off of it. And we heard growling noises from the station manager."

These are typical answers and samples of answers elicited by the wired up "mole" from reporters stationed in various government building pressrooms in Chicago, the Illinois State capitol in Springfield, and elsewhere. Some reporters confided to the mole that they already turned in well-sourced stories of specific top Illinois Democrats who got the reported pay-offs from Ryan disguised, as among other things, as so-called "discretionary funds" and such.

For example, the Democrat leader in the Illinois State Senate in the State capitol, Springfield, Emil Jones, Jr., from Chicago, reportedly got 95 million dollars in so-called "discretionary funds" to dole out to his cronies or to use it any way he chooses. The reputed Governor Ryan pay-off list seems to include every key Democrat in Illinois politics.

With a heavy electoral vote, Illinois has to be included in the column of any would-be successful candidate for U.S. President. Under law, the presidential candidate who carri unreported corruption and being politicized.

Note: after the widespread posting of our exclusive stories on Illinois Governor George H. Ryan's reported profound corruption, and never denied, he decided to go on a statewide tour to put a supposed positive spin on his tattered reputation. This was to persuade those in Illinois, in so many words, to paraphrase Nixon, "The people of Illinois have to know whether their Governor is a crook. And I am not a crook!"

The U.S. Attorney in Chicago, as the chief prosecutor there for the Justice Department, knows all about this but is sitting on his hands. That office has a long, rotten history of unreported corruption and being politicized.

Note: after the widespread posting of our exclusive stories on Illinois Governor George H. Ryan's reported profound corruption, and never denied, he decided to go on a statewide tour to put a supposed positive spin on his tattered reputation. This was to persuade those in Illinois, in so many words, to paraphrase Nixon, "The people of Illinois have to know whether their Governor is a crook. And I am not a crook!"

** UPDATE **

UPDATE to "BILLION DOLLARS IN REPORTED BRIBES TO APPARENTLY EFFECT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION"

On his speaking tour, Illinois Governor George H. Ryan was at a public forum in far downstate Carbondale, Illinois, to purportedly convince people he is not a crook. Afterwards, one spectator evidently did not accept the Governor's explanations. She threw a purported cream pie directly in his face. (As reported on WSIL-TV which showed the happening on video.) A closer look reportedly shows the "pie" contained human waste. To put it crudely, Governor "Honest George" Ryan got hit in the kisser with a s--t pie. Stay tuned.

http://www.skolnicksreport.com/bribespe.html

Buying A Judgeship

Buying A Judgeship
by Sherman H. Skolnick

If you want a car, you buy it. Or, if you are a thief, you steal it. Business is business. And crime is crime. We presume everybody understands that. It seems fundamental in a real world.

And what about public positions? If you want to be a judge, you, or your friends, buy the job. Or, if you and your friends are crooks, you procure the judgeship by blackmail. Yes, there are honest judges in America, but they are an endangered species. [And we have to someday post a story just about that and how some judges in really important matters have been murdered and the Establishment does not deal with that.]

As a court reform group, Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, we have been greatly interested in two topics for more than 40 years. (1) How does one become a judge? and (2) In the court rulings that we suspect are tainted, "bought", or just plain crooked, one of the tip-offs is the judge, or panel of judges, issues a ruling containing judicial perjuries, that is, lies they insert based on supposed "facts", not in the record, but made up by the Judges out of the air. [A Chief Federal Appeals Judge from Chicago that does that is the subject of a previous story of mine. See "Chief Crook in Microsoft Mess".]

Starting about 1966, from various sources, we made up a list of "prices" to procure a judgeship in a major venue, like Chicago. To become a state judge in the local court, such as Cook County [or Crook County] where Chicago is. The price at that time was 50 thousand dollars reportedly donated to a key and appropriate official of the Chicago Bar Association, the lawyers mafia union. [Now the filling of vacancies on the bench, temporary or otherwise, leading later to permanent positions, is done through a Judge on the Illinois Supreme Court, the state's highest tribunal. More about that later.]

To "buy" a chair in the U.S. District Court, such as in a sizeable town like Chicago, in 1966, was 250 thousand dollars, "donated" or "contributed" to the Senior U.S. Senator from Illinois who makes the pitch to the President who generally appoints according to such an order from the Senior Senator, especially if it is from the same political cabal.

For a judgeship on a federal appeals court, like in Chicago, that covers appeals from federal district courts in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana---well, the price was a million dollars or then and now, "sky is the limit". Now those were 1966 prices, and the "costs" have gone up plenty since then.

Why would someone, or his cronies for him, pay 50 thousand dollars to be a local state judge? First of all, it beats trying to make a living in the law factories (that is what we call them) and running up and back to the different courthouses and courtrooms. But more to the point, it enables the would-be judge to take care of his political and financial confederates. And since all too often, justice is for sale in America, it enables a person to become a judge and live above his regular income, through pay-offs of some kind, whether in cash or property, perhaps offshore. [At the time of Shakespeare, litigants made judges rich by giving them gold buttons for a favorable ruling.]

Suppose there were no morality, no laws against thievery and corruption. There you are, the Judge. You are sitting at a table, or Bench, and on the Bench is a matter awaiting your handling, worth a half a million dollars. So what if 25 thousand dollars, or less, falls off the table, into your suitcase. In business, it would be called a commission, a finders fee, or a referral fee.

The really big bucks cases are in the U.S. District Court, such as Chicago, Los Angeles, New York. It would not be unusual for a multi-million dollar matter to be on the docket of such a Judge. In the federal courts, you are appointed for life. Federal Judges "shall hold their Offices during good Behavior" so says the U.S. Constitution, Article III, Section 1. For many years it was up to the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee what was "good Behavior" to be determined, rarely invoked during the history of the nation by way of Articles of Impeachment. That power has now been unlawfully delegated to be determined by a "club" of judges called the Judicial Council of the Circuit. That is, the appellate circuit encompassing the particular U.S. District, such as 7th Circuit, Chicago headquartered.

In recent years, the different Judicial Councils referred matters for impeachment to the House Judiciary Committee, against basically honest judges who by their rulings, angered America's secret political police, the FBI, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and CIA.For similar reasons, two black U.S. District Judges were removed by Impeachment, one in New Orleans and another in Florida. In Nevada was removed a federal district judge by a frame-up. He dared pronounce the apparent truth from the Bench, that the Organized Crime Strike Force of the U.S. Justice Department were themselves criminals and mobsters in Nevada. A latino federal judge in California dared pronounce, based on the evidence before him, that the INS and the FBI were the American Gestapo. Luckily, he beat back the Justice Department's framed-up criminal charges against him, but it took a piece out of his life.

Why would a band of "businessmen" get together and "buy" a chair on the federal appeals court, such as in Chicago? And pay one million dollars (in 1966 dollars) or ten million dollars or more in year 2000 dollars? Most all the cases that try to go beyond the federal appeals courts require the petitioner, or loser in the appeals court, to beg the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case. It is done by "knocking on the door" and imploring the high court to open the door. Called Petition for Certiorari. In a recent term of the U.S. Supreme Court, on the first day of Court, 1600 such begging petitions were pending on their docket. The high court judges being old and tired, or lazy, or indifferent, refused ALL 1600 petitions. Most every one, by collect telegram from the Clerk of the high court, with just one word "Denied", no explanation given. Really? No merit in 1600 petitions?

So for most cases, the various federal appeals courts are the end of the line. Hence, it is wise to buy a chair there. Many of the federal appeals judges own and operate banks, are tied to banks and other financial entities. We call them Banker-Judges. They do NOT disqualify themselves when their financial links are litigants in their court. Guess who wins in their crooked court? [In the 1960s and 1970s, our work led to the jailing for bribery of the highest sitting federal judge in U.S. history. When we accused a 7th Circuit Federal Appeals Judge, to his face, of bribery, he called a press conference. On all the media, this Banker-Judge, Otto Kerner, Jr., (former Illinois Governor), called me a "liar". He tried to get a fellow judge to jail me for "contempt of court". He died an ex-convict, convicted as I accused him. The current federal appeals judges are so angered by our work, they have unlawfully barred me and a TV Show associate of mine, from all the federal courts in the 7th Circuit.]

A cynical reality: often after we have fingered a crooked judge publicly, the Establishment, acting just like the mafia, throws away the judge. He is no longer useful to fix cases. Suddenly the local prosecutors remind themselves that the judge in question does not pay his proper income taxes and such. So they send him to jail. No sensible crook would bother to bribe an already-fingered corrupt judge.

A hard to find book, published about 1962, is "The Corrupt Judge" by Joseph Borkin. He points out from specific, documented examples, the few times in U.S. history that federal judges were removed from the Bench were when the judge got in the middle between two sizeable financial entities. The competing forces crushed the Judge like a bug. But an underdog, such as a patent owner suing a huge corporation for violating his patent, gets nowhere accusing a judge of crooked rulings. [In 1963, our group originally was called the Committee to Protect Patent Owners.] In Chicago, the Banker-Judges on the Federal Appeals court in three separate appeals on the same basic case, overturned a district court jury's verdict, including massive fraud, against Sear Roebuck & Co., in an important patented tool case. The Banker-Judges had a financial interest interlocked with Sears and did NOT disqualify themselves.

In Chicago, a divorce case has led to a supposed federal investigation of possible judicial bribery in procuring judgeships. The estranged wife claimed her husband bought his chair on the local state court for 20 thousand dollars of the family money. The possible bribery probe target has been the Chief Judge of the Illinois Supreme Court, highest tribunal in the State. His home district is Chicago. He has done some strange things reportedly for his political crony, Edward "Fast Eddie" Vrdolyak, at one time a Chicago alderman. The judge once appointed a judge from the lowly traffic court to sit in the intermediate court, called the Appellate Court of Illinois. The appointee reportedly did not have sufficient experience to be sitting in the middle level reviewing court.

This Chief Judge who has appointed judges to fill a vacancy in the lower courts is quite a character. He goes around town in a cherry red Mercedes. His residence occupies two floors in a ultra-expensive high rise in the Gold Coast district of Chicago. [Hey, is this all on his judicial salary? Really?]

Part of the supposed probe is how "Fast Eddie" gets his crony, Chief Judge Charles Freeman, to appoint persons as judges to fill a vacancy. It seems some of them reportedly are also in the Nursing Home business with the judge. [Nursing homes are a favorite "investment" for some corrupt politicians. Such as cronies of Clinton and their Beverly Enterprises chain of nursing homes.]

How far will the supposed investigation go? There is an inclination for the FBI, themselves highly corrupt, to quickly hush up the matter. Why? Some have claimed that Fast Eddie, for much of his adult life, has been reportedly a "mole" or stool pigeon for federal authorities, including the IRS and the FBI. Some contend this stems from the way Fast Eddie beat back a murder charge against him, an outgrowth of trying to break a labor union strike in 1959. At the time, Fast Eddie was a law student and claimed he was in class at the time of the crime. Did he strong-arm his teacher for an alibi? Some over the years continue to say so. Some claim Fast Eddie is a key feature in the reported buying and selling of judgeships.

By the time of the new century, the prices to buy a chair in the federal courts has gone way up. At least a million dollars is reportedly required now to purchase you a judgeship in the U.S. District COurt in a major district like the one that includes Chicago. Ten million dollars or more is required to obtain a chair in the U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, Chicago, one step below the U.S. Supreme Court that rejects the bulk of all the begging petitions submitted.

So, if you want to know how and why America has come to have a corrupt judiciary, covered up by a venal, lackey monopoly press, and cowardly lawyers, well, these are some of the reasons.

Stay tuned.

http://www.skolnicksreport.com/judgeship.html

Buying A Media Job

Buying A Media Job
by Sherman H. Skolnick

So, you want to be a talking head on a local TV station. And read the alleged "news" from the idiot machine.

Requirements:

1. You have to be about 28 years old.

2. If a woman, blondes preferred. Light-skinned blacks permitted BUT must look like a doll.

3. Must be able to read items about bloody wrecks, airplane disasters, and tornados without showing much visible emotion.

4. You cannot show any politics in what you are reading.

In most of the bigger markets, such as Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, you have to buy the job through the local, handful of celebrity lawyers. The terms are as follows: in a three-year conract, paying a big buck, you have to agree to pay under the table, a minimum of 15 per cent, in front, in cash, of the total amount you would receive in the first year of the contract. Of that, it is to be divided up as follows: one third to the union business agent, one third to the celebrity lawyer, and one third to the news director or station manager.

I have been on the periphery of the media since the early 1960s. A few examples have come to my attention. Because of our role as crusaders opening up scandals, items that are suppressed by the monopoly press are sometimes referred to us, on the sly, together with the corroborating details. Media people in key places confide in us. We never, never, never divulge sources. Judges that we have fingered publicly for bribery have numerous times over the decades, put me, as the head of our court reform group, in jail and prison for so-called "contempt of court", for absolutely refusing to divulge sources.

Over the decades as well I have become a sort of father confessor of media people with a problem. [I once taught civic investigation at a Chicago broadcast school.] Media people confide their problems to us, in confidence, knowing that we will never reveal who they are and will oftentimes come up with a proposed solution to save their neck and their job. I have usually met with such people in the middle of the night at some out of the way meeting place. What follows is a typical example:

"Sherman, the so and so's fired me. And I am only in the first year of my three-year contract. BUT, they cannot do that!" the media person forcefully exclaimed. "I paid in cash, in front, the fifteen per cent as required. I bought the job. The money was divided up on the business agent of the union, this special lawyer that handles the buying and selling of media jobs, and the balance went to the news director. I was also of course the right age and look. Hey, the job belongs to me. They cannot fire me!" he emphasized.

He outlined to me how this system works throughout the media industry. He offered other examples, some of which we already knew about from talking to other media people.

"I'll try my best to help you and keep all this confidential. After all, you and your pals have in the past given me the lowdown on several suppressed scandals, and gave me the rundown on the inside dirt at your outlet. So I owe you one." I told him.

"I bought the job, that's the system. They cannot fire me!" he repeated, his voice showing his anger.

In my most compassionate manner, I quietly told him. "Well, you are unfortunately in the same category, I am sorry to tell you, as a bank robber on the way from the stick-up. A crooked cop beats you up and rips off the loot for himself. And you want to sue for brutality and recovery of your property. Such a lawsuit is not allowed. It is, the courts say, against public policy, since you bought the job. It is against the public good to be buying and selling jobs, such as in the mass media." I showed I understood his plight.

"Listen, as an alternative, what kind of dirt do you have on the celebrity lawyer, the union business agent, and the news director? Maybe that would pressure the bastards to leave you alone." I asked.

"Why? You think I should turn them in to the IRS with this? The so and so's do not report the job pay-off money on their taxes." He responded.

"Aw, come on now, don't be silly. Right before the April 15th each year, the media honchos go along with the IRS and report a few evaders the IRS has fingered. So as to scare the rest of the public into sending in their form 1040 without question, just like it is required instead of actually, voluntary. The media bosses seldom go on the air with IRS corruption like we dig up." I told him.

No lawyer would undertake to sue for him. So, he went on to some other line of work. Being handsome and personable, he was suitable for being a friendly, productive salesman.

Some long-time network reporters that confided in me were worried about their jobs and their pensions. A foreign outfit was trying to take over the news operation division. I gave them some inside data we compiled on the sharks trying to grab their section of the network. So, all of a sudden the veteran correspondents were sneaking by some hot, political assassination type items, during the night on the radio end. Sort of to scare a few would-be network grabbers. It worked.

In the process of all this, we found out the requirements for network correspondent to cover, for example, the White House: [1] As a woman, they have to start out about 40 years old. The networks push away women White House reporters if they are over 58 years old. Men, however, can cover the White House even if they are over 60, but not women. It is a form of known discrimination. Network news anchor faces usually do not have their contracts renewed if they approach 60 years old. Once in a while there is an exception.

Some of the younger reporters for networks that cover the White House, are actually assets of foreign intelligence agencies. One such reporter keeps track of all of the President's phone calls and meetings with persons in the White House. Hey,how is that done? Supposedly for a price, he will share the data with a reporter working on piecing together some supposed White House scandal.

In the 1960s and 1970s, I was often on the commercial TV for 40 seconds or so, talking about the voting cases that I brought in the federal courts being I am self-educated in law. I was called "Mr. One Man, One Vote" referring to the numerous election district reapportionment cases that I brought and won on behalf of myself and all voters similarly situated. But in 1988 I got put on the crap list for being too outspoken. I had confronted Don Hewitt, top honcho of CBS's "60 Minutes" Program. I gave him a lot of specifics about the buying and selling of media jobs. I was naive, I now realize, to believe that "60 Minutes" would expose this dirty business.

Don Hewitt screamed all over me and in so many words, told me I will never again be allowed on the TV anymore. After that, the only time you could see me on the TV as starting in 1991 when I became a regular panelist, later moderator/producer, of a non-commercial, public access weekly Cable TV Show in Chicago, called "Broadsides". The media types, by the way, are absolutely forbidden to mention that our popular Cable TV Show exists, or, for that matter, that I exist.

So, you want to be on the air on commercial TV, huh? Fine. Be the right type and look and buy your job with cash in front. It is the system and so far, no one in authority is prepared to change it.

Stay tuned.

http://www.skolnicksreport.com/mediajob.html

kauilapele: 'In Honor of “The Poof”… Re-release of Poof’s Interview with Brian Kelly, October, 2012… VIDEO & MP3s'

kauilapele: 'In Honor of “The Poof”… Re-release of Poof’s Interview with Brian Kelly, October, 2012… VIDEO & MP3s'

Posted By: hobie [Send E-Mail]
Date: Tuesday, 28-May-2013 00:11:29

(Thanks, R. :) Reader R. sends us the link to both text and audio from the October interview with Poof that had to be pulled from Internet soon after it had been posted: ===== In Honor of “The Poof”… Re-release of Poof’s Interview with Brian Kelly, October, 2012… VIDEO & MP3s http://kauilapele.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/in-honor-of-the-poof-re-release-of-poofs-interview-with-brian-kelly-october-2012-video-mp3s/

Poof is “Gone too soon”

Poof is “Gone too soon”

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Date: Monday, 27-May-2013 22:22:04

I was unfamiliar with this song until the passing of Michael Jackson. And so with the passing of Poof I dedicate this indescribably beautiful creation. It did not embed properly so I am trying again. http://youtu.be/dei87ke3G7I   http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=278058