Attorney Ken Ditkowsky on Northshore "LIVE": Cooper's Corner

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10-14-14 Ken Ditkowsky

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Attorney Ditkowsky received a four-year suspension for advocating and speaking up against guardianship abuse, specifically the Mary Sykes case, in Cook County, IL.

See Also:
NASGA:  Mary Sykes, Illinois Victim

Northshore LIVE:  Cooper's Corner:  Ken Ditkowsky

Northshore Live: Coopers Corner - Ken Ditkowsky

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Northshore Live:  Cooper's Corner - Ken Ditkowsky, August 7, 2014

Open Letter to Jerome Larkin, Administrator of the Illinois ARDC From Ken Ditkowsky

Dozens of  friends and family of victims of Elder Cleansing have written to your commission and all have received a letter that said that your agency stating that it was not interested in the obviously criminal conduct of a small group of lawyers being reported.    

Each complaint was essentially the same.    A senior citizen was railroaded into a guardianship in which his/her liberty and property were confiscated.     The looting of the estate was accomplished by the direct violation of the directive of 755 ILCS 11a – 3 (b) in that the elderly and/or disabled victim was separated from his/her prior life and family members who would not attorn to the artificial arrangement and the unjust enrichment of judicial and other officials.  (other officials include guardians and attorneys).    After the looting was complete the elderly person was subjected to a sometimes drawn out involuntary assisted suicide.

Some of the citizen complaints that were not investigated and not acted upon related attorney conduct that is so despicable and wrong that you dishonor the entire legal profession with your refusal to investigate.    The mining of the teeth of senior citizen Alice Gore orchestrated by an Illinois lawyer and ignored by your commission is illustrate of the neglect of duty that you have exhibited.    

The attempt to silence attorneys who speak out as to corruption in the Courts is another low point in your tenure and is at the very least the aiding and abetting of the felonies associated with elder cleansing.

I written to you and your commission before and asked for you to join in calling for an HONEST intelligent complete and comprehensive investigation of the cottage industry of elder cleansing and in particular that which occurred in the case of Mary Sykes 09 P 4585.    You of course have not joined in or conducted any investigation.    

The net was you marshalled your kangaroo panels and I am suspended for four years for the exercise of my First Amendment Rights.     You then started proceedings against JoAnne Denison who published on her blog some of my First Amendment utterances.     Currently, Ms. Denison in response to what appears to be the misreporting of the perjured words and phrases of a Judge you have continued with your ‘cover up’ by refusing Ms. Denison the audio transmission of the testimony.

You have accused me of making false statements but have never articulated a single statement that you claim was or is false.  I challenge you and herewith demand for you to instanter provide me and the community with a list of each statement that you claim was false.  Then for every statement you claim was false set forth the basis upon which you claim the statement was false. The foregoing notwithstanding the Friends and family of each of the victims of elder cleansing who have written attorney complaints to your commission want to know why you have refused to investigate the violations of the civil, human, property, and liberty rights of their loved ones who have been railroaded into guardianship by Illinois attorneys.   

We would like to know why you are protecting certain attorneys and not others.     Attorney Miriam Solo has been accused by the family of Alice Gore of what amounts to a human rights violation.    Adam Stern, Cynthia Farenga, Peter Schmiedel and other have been accused by Gloria Sykes and the family of Mary Sykes of very very serious violations of Mary Sykes’ fundamental liberty rights.    This list is endless and each complaining person wants to know why you are not leading the investigation into the human rights It has not gone un-noticed that there is no ethics statement that can be found for you.   The ethics statements being your disclosure of assets and liabilities required by the State.  

 A person placed in the position of judging the conduct of others should be able and willing to demonstrate at the drop of hat that he is more virtuous than Caesar’s wife.

~Ken Ditkowsky

Illinois "Petition of the Month" July 2014: Ditkowsky v. The Illinois Attorney Disciplinary Review Committee (IARDC)

The Supreme Court Press “Petition of the Month”_TM for July 2014 is Ditkowsky v. The Illinois Attorney Disciplinary Review Committee (IARDC) Supreme Court Dkt. No. 13-1473, an appeal coming out of the State of Illinois. The petition was filed pro se by the petitioner Kenneth K. Ditkowsky.

Question Presented: (two of four questions presented by Petitioner)

1. Does the First Amendment provide protection to an attorney who reports criminal conduct to law enforcement?

2. Does the Illinois Attorney Disciplinary code nullify the moral and common law obligation of requiring citizens to object to elder abuse and financial exploitation of the elderly?
 

Many lawyers take up the law for idealistic reasons - to fight for the weak, to correct injustices, and preserve the rule of law. Upholding these values requires action be taken - action that can be lauded as crusading and exemplary by some, but reckless and inconvenient by others. However, when the lawyer takes on corruption whose seed might be planted within the legal system itself, the system sometimes retaliates with a fury with the ultimate punishment for an attorney - a referral to the bar's disciplinary committee and long term suspension or disbarment.

In the case of Ditkowsky v. The Illinois Attorney Disciplinary Review Committee (IARDC), Supreme Court, Dkt. No. 13-1473, Kenneth Ditkowsky was suspended from the bar for four years due to his investigation of what he believed to be the looting of an elderly woman, Mary Sykes. He believed that her attorney-guardian may have gone so far as to have stripped her bank safe deposit box and gold teeth fillings.. When he pursued the investigation, he was referred to the IARDC which recommended and ultimately achieved Ditkowsky's bar suspension. The IARDC took little account of Ditkowsky's past role in ferreting out corruption, notably helping the feds uncover judicial bribe taking in the Operation Greylord scandal of thirty years ago.

The Ditkowsky petition asks the Court to consider whether a lawyer's action to protect a potential abuse victim is Constitutionally protected speech.

As I dug into the Sykes case, I discovered that I had stepped into a quagmire. What was going was unbelievable! The family of Alice Gore reported that their mother was isolated, stripped of her assets, abused and Attorney Miriam Solo had orchestrated the removal of 29 teeth from Ms. Gore's mouth so as to mine her gold fillings!"
~Kenneth K. Ditkowsky









In my humble opinion it is dishonest for a lawyer to  shirk his responsibility to the Bill of Rights and the core value of Americans.  No one asked any individual to be a lawyer!  The taking of the oath meant taking the responsibility to stand up when Americana is threatened and be counted even if it means personal loss.  This may be flag waving – but, we have something special and it must be preserved.,"
~Kenneth K. Ditkowsky

Full Article and Source:
Petition of the Month, July 2014:  Ditkowsky v. The Illinois Attorney Disciplinary Review Committee (IARDC)

See Also:
NASGA:  Mary Sykes, Illinois Victim
NASGA:  Alice Gore, Illinois Victim

Tonight on T.S. Radio: Ken Ditkowsky - Sanctioned for Bucking the System

Join us this evening as Ken Ditkowsky discusses the case that resulted in him being sanctioned by ubiquitous BAR Association. 

Why?  Ken actually tried to represent his client against the
kangaroo probate court.  We can't have that!

Ken will join us for the first hour, at 7:45 pm CST

At issue is the theft of estates, the kidnapping, isolation and profiting from the abduction of seniors who committed the new
age crime of "aging with assets".

5:00 pm PST … 6:00 pm MST … 7:00 pm CST … 8:00 pm EST

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Mary Sykes' Niece on Her Aunt's Guardianship

Dear Sir or Madam,

I'm weighing in here to lend credence to Mr. Ditkowsky's statements. I've addressed a few specifics below, but what happened was perfectly framed and orchestrated.

My Aunt (Mary Sykes) was placed under an adult guardianship under cover of darkness. She wasn't informed (i.e. her daughter who applied for the guardianship had her then attorney send multiple notifications of the application to Mary Syke's home in Chicago, while forcing her mother to stay with her in Naperville barring her from access to her own mail or a process server).

In fact when Aunt she heard there was going to be a court hearing, she was told by an employee of Rehab Assist (engaged by the GAL's on behalf of Carolyn Sykes), that it was NOT necessary for her to attend.

The one day she was in court, no one (neither GAL, Judge Connors, or Carolyn Toerpe) told her that she was to be guardianized. Aunt being fully aware that something was afoot, approached Carolyn Toerpe during a recess while Carolyn sat in the back of the courtroom. She scrunched down in front of Carolyn so that she was face to face with her and stated "You're rotten."

Ms. Farenga stated at one point that Mary Sykes was in opposition.  Mr. Stern at another time stated that if Mary Sykes was to ever be told about the guardianship, he would suggest that a professional be the one to do it.

When Aunt questioned Judge Connors as to who is fooling who and for what? There was no response from either the Judge or the GAL's.

My mother (Yolanda Bakken) and I were both accused of agitating Aunt. Mom had leaned over and felt the fabric of Aunt's slacks, asking her as to the material. (Aunt had just retired from being a seamstress).I asked Aunt if she would like a glass of water, then took her glass to the water fountain, filled it, and returned it to her. This was reported by Ms. Farenga as agitation. Mom was said to the have been 'pulling' at her clothes. Nothing specific was said as to what I did, but as my ONLY interaction, other than giving her a kiss Hello that morning, it must have been my intent to keep her hydrated that was misconstrued.

From that day forward, it was all downhill. All of our reputations have been maligned and we been punished for supporting Aunt in what she asked us to do. In February of 2009 my Aunt begged my mother and I to help her stop Carolyn Toerpe from taking over her life.

When Aunt questioned Carolyn regarding the $4000 that was missing from her bank account (Feb 2009), Carolyn's response was that she had invested in an IRA for her. (BTW, Aunt had just turned 90, and as anyone with a little accounting sense knows, she would not be allowed to invest in an IRA at that age.)

I've approached Carolyn Toerpe, Peter Schmeidel, Cynthia Farenga, and Adam Stern on numerous occasions in the hope of arranging visits between my Aunt (now 94) and her sister Yolanda (now 84). The sisters live less than 20 miles from each other, but have only had a handful of visits in the last 4 years.

Telephone calls are not answered and voice mail messages left with the guardian are ignored, and have been since BEFORE the guardianship was approved.

Judge Connors was very specific in her instructions to Carolyn Toerpe regarding contact between Aunt and her family.  Aunt was NOT to be isolated. Both GAL's and Mr. Schmeidel are well aware that my aunt has been and continues to be isolated from the family she was so very close to, and yet it continues.

I welcome any and all questions from anyone interested in resolving this situation, and who care about the rights of the elderly.

Sincerely,

~Kathie Bakken

See Also:
NASGA: Mary Sykes, Illinois Victim

Attorney Ken Ditkowsky: The Need for an Honest, Complete and Comprehensive Investigation