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2003

THE BANKRUPTCY BORDELLO, Part 1

by Sherman H. Skolnick 6/4/03

Some always fault us. We are not University graduates. So, how could we know much about finances. We are not diplomatic. Our descriptions sometimes are crude and cynical. To some, we are just uncouth.

We somehow do not fill up our stories with footnotes referring to other person's magazine or newspaper articles. Hence, some consider we could not possibly know what we are talking about.

Most folks do not know or understand what is PRIMARY INVESTIGATION. It is getting as close to the "Horse's Mouth" as possible. Some are not impressed that, over the last four decades and more, we have compiled millions of records, court files, audio and video tapes, secret notebooks, and secret records of officials we are not supposed to have. That we have secret reports of grand juries as to court corruption, and how did those get into our possession? That we conducted interviews with key persons who are reliable sources but we could not dare risk their lives divulging who they are.We use methods of investigation different than taught in journalism schools.

We were once waiting in the hallway outside some courtrooms of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, in Chicago, our hometown. Two lawyers came up to us, one tall, one short.

Tall lawyer Remember us? Like last time, come away from the doorway, so we would not stand out so.

Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts Over here is okay. Talk low, we'll hear you.

Short lawyer(trying to pull his law partner away from us) We should not be talking to them.

Tall lawyer We gotta talk about this. We lost a hundred and fifty thousand dollars last year because of "TheClub".

Citizen's Committee You mean, "The Bankruptcy Club". (He nodded yes).We know. There is one in most every major Federal Court District. What, did they try to hit you up for the usual? The three thousand per month?(Again, he nodded, yes.)

Tall lawyer Yah, but my partner said we gotta go on the cheap. So we did not pay. Well, if you pay that plus the "assessments", you get the run of the place. Everything is granted. No trouble. Motions are granted. The Trustee is told to get off our bac k. We could make an easy quarter mil, if we just paid the monthly plus the assessments Citizen's Committee Well, maybe you saw our tv show recently. We had on a prominent member of the Bankruptcy Bar. He admitted there is a Bankruptcy Club. But he said there is nothing sinister. They just meet after Court. For coffee, maybe lunch. Hey, y ou waiting for the Chief Judge?

Tall lawyer Yah, he's a crook. Without The Club, you come into this place like a dumb John. To screw or be screwed.

We once interviewedb a top official of the Criminal Division of the Chicago District Office of the Internal Revenue Service. We made a secret transcript and later put it into various public court records, where it was not challenged or disputed.

The IRS official confirmed they knew about Chief Judge John D. Schwartz. His fellow judges in the federal system in 1984 chose him for a 14 year term as Chief Judge. The IRS official confirmed that they knew that Schwartz had parked for him, offshore, f or himself and for other judges, over a hundred forty million dollars and that he did not pay or file any Federal Income taxes for the previous 30 years. Also confirmed, was the IRS knew that Schwartz had secretly been an official of the First National Bank of Cicero, in the mafia enclave adjacent to Chicago, known as Al Capone Land.

But the IRS official warned us about the records we had, that we could be punished for having such. The Cicero bank, the IRS official confirmed, is a money laundry jointly for state and federal officials and their bribery loot jointly with known hoodlum s.

In the 1990s, Hillary Rodham Clinton as First Lady, put us on her "Enemy's List", to hound and harass us in and out of the courthouse, because we got her lesbian business partner arrested for selling missile parts to known international terrorists. To t errorize us, Hillary had a top oficial of the Clinton Justice Department fly into Chicago to confront us in the hallway outside of a courtroom. In the presence of witnesses, he said he was going to get us arrested if we did not stop publicizing the matt er of the 140 million dollars and Chief Judge John D. Schwartz.

In 1996, we sued Hillary, and him, and Hillary 's "baglady", and two IRS officials, regarding the "Enemy's List" and related matters. [Sherman H. Skolnick, et al., plaintiffs vs. Hillary Rodham Clinton et al., defendants, Chicago U.S. District Court, No . 96 C 4373.] As we set forth elsewhere on our website, part of the court corruption is the arbitrary assignment of certain cases to a certain Judge to put in "the fix". The case was assigned to Chicago U.S. District Judge George M. Marovich, a banker t ied to crooked dealings.

As we had already detailed in our lawsuit, filed before it was assigned to Marovich, he owns near the First National Bank of Cicero, a shopping center, Cermak Plaza. It is shown on his annual mandatory federal financial disclosure form, signed by him su bject to the perjury laws if he lied. As our investigations showed, the shopping center has silent partners known gangsters jointly with corrupt top state and federal tax collectors. Through the shopping center, they launder mobster and other loot, such as for bribery, extortion, and by way of shakedown.

Judge Marovich did not remove himself from the case and did not disqualify himself. He ordered that we not ever to be allowed inside his courtroom. Our further court papers were to be sent in by mail. In the court record, we complained, to no avail, th at he was running a "Mail-Box Court", depriving us of orderly proceedings. He put our case out of court on an unprecedented ruling. That we had too many facts, dates, and details in our pleadings. Yet, the federal rules require specifics which we set fo rth.

We took an appeal to the Chicago Federal Appeals Court, where most of the Judges hate our guts, because we lambaste their misdeeds on our tv shows. The judges refused to hear our appeal and ordered we be barred from all the federal courts in Illinois, I ndiana, and Wisconsin. When we petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a remedy, that our Freedom of the Press rights had been cancelled, they refused to do anything about it.

[See our website series "Overthrow,etc.", homosexual underground as to Hillary and her business partner.]

As we found out over a series of years, the Bankruptcy Club in Chicago is just typical of what exists in Bankruptcy Courts in major cities of the U.S. it consists of a tight-knit group of usually about thirty Judges, Lawyers, Court Clerks, Bankruptcy Co urt assignees and auctioneers, Bankruptcy Trustees, and others. In Chicago, someone apparently "bugged" their monthly meetings and we had the details. They met at the home of a long-time attorney. We found out how they arrange the monthly membership fee s and assessments. And the specific banks used to funnel the bribery loot offshore. One bank used has been La Salle National Bank, a reputed longtime bribery center for payments to state and federal judges.

La Salle is an "untouchable" enterprise. They arbitrarily reserve the right to themselves to refuse to honor court subpoenas requiring them to produce witnesses or records. AND, the state and federal judges refuse to enforce such subpoenas to La Salle. The parent of La Salle has become ABN-AMRO, the Dutch bank octopus originally Algemene Bank Nederland. Upon the downfall of the Moscow government, the former Soviets bosses stole most of the Soviet gold treasury and parked it for custody with ABN. ABN-A MRO has used gold to buy up shaky banks in some 15 U.S. cities. La Salle has become the flagship for the U.S. units of ABN-AMRO.[Our website has stories about the gold.]

For months we publicized that the Bush Crime Family had large joint accounts with supposed "terrorist" living in a cave, Osama bin Laden, in ABN-AMRO. BUT that the U.S. Treasury repeatedly refused to freeze those accounts until just recently, not divulg ing the Bush links.

Through ABN-AMRO U.S., and La Salle, the bribery money for the Chicago Bankruptcy Club is funneled, for example, to the Grand Caymans. It is kept there in "escrow". The funds go forward to the accounts of the officials to be bribed after, not before, th ey make corrupt rulings favoring members of the Club.

[Visit our website series on IRS corruption. Shown is the picture of "California Rose", the ocean-going ship for money laundry dealings, owned by current and former top corrupt IRS officials of the Chicago District Office.] Certain litigants in the Bankruptcy Court scheduled me as a witness to detail how the Bankruptcy Club deprives them of Equal Justice. On the day I was to testify, I was waiting in my wheelchair, in the lobby of the Federal Courthouse near the elevators.

A tipster warned me to be careful. So, I sent an associate to go upstairs to the courtroom ahead of me. He came running out of the elevator, "Sherman, you gotta get the Hell out of the building. They got six deputy U.S. Marshalls waiting outside the co urtroom door to arrest you." I fled the place.

Part of my testimony was so hot very few of my associates knew what it was going to be. They did not know about it even in whispers. I was prepared to testify with specifics that Israeli intelligence, The Mossad, was part of an unholy deal. They have lo ng taken the position, that they and the State of Israel are not enforcers of Federal Criminal laws in the United States. And, that israeli officials, whether authorized or renegade, participating in so-called "business" deals in the U.S., are not oblig ated to determine the right or wrong of the situation as subject to American laws.

My testimony was to have set forth specifics of the split of the bribery, shakedown, and extortion loot skimmed off from the Chicago Bankruptcy Courts, and possibly the same in other major Federal Districts. Namely, the deal was that The Mossad, or at l east their agents, authorized or renegade, were to get 80 per cent of the proceeds available for them presumably to ship off to Tel Aviv. The remaining 20 per cent was for "handling fees" for "The Club".

A problem developed. There was a falling out of thieves. "The Club" kept 80 per cent FOR THEMSELVES and left only 20 per cent to presumably be bshipped off through The Mossad. This problem caused murder and mayhem to be committed on U.S. soil, to be det ailed in future parts of this series.

My testimony was to have included the interviews we conducted with a retired Federal law enforcement official, who confirmed to us details showing the U.S. Treasury Inspector General was actually the highest ranking mafia representative within the U.S. Government. Furthermore, we had interviewed staff members of a Congressional committee quietly investigating IRS corruption, confirming the same details as to the Inspector General.

Purely as a legal formality, not expecting any remedy from corrupt officials, we sent by registered mail, return receipt requested and received, to the U.S. Treasury Inspector General himself, details like the foregoing. We also conducted interviews with some lawyers we knew since they got out of law school and became members of the Bar. The interviews were five years after they first became attorneys.

Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts So how come you do not practice in Chicago's Bankruptcy Courts?

First lawyer Are you kidding? The Club starts you off for one thousand per month plus assessments.

Citizen's Committee; How high can the assessments go and what are they for?

Second lawyer The assessments are to grease the court clerks and their supervisors. So that certain records appear and disappear as The Club orders to be done. There is no actual limit on how high the assessments can go. If we paid everything, includin g what the older members of The Club pay, we are sure to make per year more than 8 times the ticket price.

Citizen's Committee So why don't yo guys pay for the ticket?

First lawyer I couldn't come up, in front, with the three thou per month.

Citizen's Committee Hey, I noticed you hooked up with an older attorney. I saw him recently in the Bankruptcy Court. How come?

First lawyer He's a long-time member. He pays. I am only a junior partner of his. I would have to pay for my own ticket.

[One of the lawyers narrowly escaped big trouble. He was too friendly with a top official of an insurance company. The official had embezzled more than 42 million dollars from his firm but was not prosecuted. How come? The embezzler "wired up" certain f ederal officials that we could finger. But the lawyer is now afraid to talk to most others.]

In future parts of this series Why nothing has been done as to murder and mayhem in the Bankruptcy Courts. How top corrupt IRS Chicago District Office officials stole 50 millions dollars for their own personal benefit and not for the public Treasury. A nd why are there so many Judges and Lawyers in the Bankruptcy Courts with Jewish last names and Christian first names. And does the situation of them plundering non-Jews foment terrible religious hatred.

More coming....Stay tuned.

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THE BANKRUPTCY BORDELLO, Part 2

by Sherman H. Skolnick 6/6/03

Murder Before Christmas

Wallace Lieberman was a man of the real world. He knew things up close and first hand. Later, you will find out why he was important.

Lieberman knew that Paul Marcinkus had been the Bishop of the Catholic Church in Cicero. And that Cicero was the mafia enclave adjacent to Chicago. Locally, the suburb was known as Al Capone Land. Marcinkus had long been the dominant force behind the Fi rst National Bank of Cicero, an "untouchable" enterprise and sinister. Marcinkus went on to become the head of the Vatican Bank.

Although later far from Cicero, Marcinkus continued his role with the bank in Cicero.

In Chicago, the Catholic Archbishop is an entity known as corporation sole (a one man corporation?). The Catholic Church in Chicago has the most units of any in the U.S. And the Archbishop of Chicago is particularly powerful. He is also the Treasurer fo r the Church for the whole Western Hemisphere. Traditionally, the Archbishop steered the funds through the Continental Bank of Chicago and the one in Cicero.

The actual full name was Continental Illinois National Bank, and its parent, its holding firm, was Continental Illinois. Continental was the principal transaction point for the Chicago Board of Trade, which deals with soybeans, corn, wheat, and other co mmodities, among others. The Exchange traditionally was run by the French Rothschilds. And especially talented, particularly young Irish Catholics, with steel nerves, trade in the pits of the CBOT. These were Irish Catholics often from important, promi nent families, just a layer or two below the Aristocracy to which they were obligated and beholden.

On the other hand, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is dominated by those with Jewish names, who may not all be actually practicing the religion. And they are often steel-nerved types from prominent families, a layer or two below the Aristocracy to whom they are beholden and obligated.

The office of Archbshop of Chicago, as Lieberman well knew, often had a checkered past. Early in the 1980s, the Catholic Archbishop was indicted on federal criminal charges for embezzling large sums from the Church for upkeep of his mistress. A local well-known reporter that knew how the charges were quietly suppressed, was found murdered. He had earlier told us all about the grand jury. Concidentally, through a series of odd circumstances, we interviewed a member of that grand jury who likewise con firmed the charges were hushed up. And a retired federal law enforcement official also confirmed the same.

The Continental Bank was much implicated in the embezzlement. The Continental somehow falsely led the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza, to believe that the holding firm, Continental Illinois was a "bank of deposit". Were it to be true, which it was not, it wo uld in part be covered by Federal Deposit Insurance. A bank holding firm can transact in non-bank matters.

The Yakuza had put over twenty Billion Dollars of flight capital in the holding firm. When they found out the truth, they made a run on the bank. We were the first to realize the bank and its holding firm were insolvent. Those in the monopoly press tha t heard our public comments said that Continental was okay, and that we were "liars".

One early morning, at 3 a.m. we were as witnesses stationed near the rear entrance of Continental. Cabs were arriving, one after the other, and asian types were rushing into the rear entrance. They came out later with suitcases stuffed with cash. They d id not wish to wait for the funds to be wired to Osaka, where a unit of Continental was operating and Osaka being the home base of the Yakuza. Cabdrivers later confirmed to us the details of the suitcases. A populist newspaper, in Washington, D.C., was the only publication to run our exclusive stories with the accurate assement of the amount of the run on the bank holding firm.

Continental had a troubled past. A major fixture and long-time Board Chairman of Continental was Walter Cummings, Sr. In 1931, with the bank failing, he made a deal with a federal agency, giving them stock in the bank in return for a financial transfusi on. The government never forgot about this.

For example, in 1943, Walter Cummings, Sr., quietly and secretly arranged for the shipment to the Soviets of a particular type of uranium they needed to finish the development of their atomic bomb. [We have a document proving this.] Hey, this being so, why did the U.S. government kill in the electric chair Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, some ten years after 1943, claiming THEY gave atomic secrets to the Soviets?

In the 1970s, when the American CIA and others wanted to conceal certain secret transactions in the Continental, the U.S. government apparently reminded Continental how they were saved in 1931. Continental tried real hard to hush up the matter by attemp ting to keep it out of the Chicago federal court record which we obtained.

In 1984, six weeks before the collapse became public of Continental, guess what happened? Two of their largest stockholders quietly sold out their shares before the shares went to almost nothing. That was the Pope and the Queen of England (the British m onarchy, contrary to public perception, has long been secretly Catholic). Traditionally, the Pope and the British Monarch each had their representative sitting on Continental's Board of Directors.

Editors of some Italian newspapers criticized the Vatican for not breaking Continental's known ties to the mafia. Pope John Paul THE FIRST tried to do something about it. But he was murdered with a poisoned cup of tea just 33 days after becoming Pope. [ Details are in the book, published in 1983, "In God's Name" by David Yallop.]

He was replaced by Pope John Paul 2d who was warned not to interfere in business dealings between the Vatican Bank, the American CIA, and the mafia. In 1981, there was an attempted assassination of John Paul 2d just to remind him to stay out of such mat ters. He survived but developed physical complications.

The rear entrance of Continental faced the federal courthouse in Chicago. There sat U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, Chief Judge Walter Cummings, Jr. He could keep track of his bank watching from the courthouse offices. His judgeship was his public p ersona. Privately, he was a "man of trust" for the Church, trusted to confidentially and secretly handle their business, whether dirty or clean. Upon the demise of his bank in 1984, he quietly warned lawyers, members of the federal bar, that they would be brought to ruin if they dared instigate damage suits against Continental claiming fraud. And there was fraud. The Yakuza, to pacify them, were given as a "gift" Continental's business dealings division. And so, the Osaka gang purported to open their offices on Chicago's financial zone, La Salle Street.

Wallace Lieberman knew this, and much, much more.

Lieberman knew that an adjunct to the money laundering of Continental, was the First National Bank of Cicero, continuing to be dominated by Paul Marcinkus, even while he was away overseas as Vatican Bank Chief. Lieberman found out some things early on t hat did not come to public attention until much, much later. Namely, that there was resident near Naples, Italy, an official of the American CIA with dual citizenship, U.S. and Italy. That was Roger D'Onofrio, CIA paymaster for Italy, who was part of a criminal gang that included Paul Marcinkus and his confederates, with the aid of Continental and the bank in Cicero. The Italian authorities were becoming aware, like Lieberman who was thick with The Mossad, Israeli intelligence, that the Vatican Bank w ith Marcinkus and D'Onofrio and others, were trafficking in smuggled gold, osmium nuclear bomb triggers, superior counterfeit currencies, exotic weapons, just to name a few items.

All this did not surface until early in December, 1995 (right after the possibly related political assassination of Itzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister). The Roger D'Onofrio Affair was detailed in reports, datelined Rome by Reuters and United Press International. The American monopoly press pretended not to know anything about it. The Italian authorities also fingered as a gang member the Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain, who denied complicity.

In 1991, Italian authorities vowed to grab Vatican Bank Chief Paul Marcinkus and grill him about all this. Using his Vatican passport as a separate sovereignty gimmick, Marcinkus eluded the Italian authorities and fled to Chicago. With the courtesy of Balkan and Polish Catholics, who live in a sort of enclave in the Windy City, Marcinkus for a while had his food and housing provided for. Outsiders knew not to enter that Chicago neighborhood.

Part of the rackets of the Chicago U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, which also apparently goes on in major other federal districts, is that a combination of different gangs and forces arrange to plunder mid-size firms, such as in the Midwest, by falsely and frau dulently pushing them into Bankruptcy. The Israelis, as in part one of this series, arrange to skim off or try to skim off funds from companies finding themselves in Bankruptcy. Likewise, certain Catholic entities do the same. How, over the years, did t hey get away with it? Simple. Chief Judge Walter Cummings, Jr., is the ultimate supervisor of the lawyers, judges, assignees, trustees, auctioneers, liquidators, court clerks, and others, members of which constitute the corrupt "Bankruptcy Club".

One of those who seems to be a part of all this is William A. Brandt, Jr. He is the CEO and President of Development Specialists, Inc. They use the terms and lingo of their industry, such as workout, turnaround, and insolvency consultants. They now hav e offices in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, London, Miami, San Francisco, Columbus, and Boston.

Pushed falsely into bankruptcy for the apparent purpose of plundering them, was Wirecloth Products, Inc., headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Bellwood. Their specialty, almost exclusively so, was the making of superfine, gold-plated filters for nucl ear submarines, tanks, airplanes, and other military and civilian vehicles. Their product was quite essential in Gulf War One. Despite that, they were shoved into bankruptcy and Brandt took over. The owners of the firm complained to no avail to the assi gned judge, Chicago U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Jack B. Schmetterer [(312) 435-5654]. According to the owners, U.S. Generals were calling from the Persian Gulf, "Where the Hell are those gold filters? The fine powder sand is getting into our fuel lines, and o ur tanks and trucks are stalled." The owners complained, to no avail, to the Defense Department as well as the Judge. Later, we found out that the Judge was tight with The Mossad, Israeli intelligence. So what was the angle there?

Since Brandt was put up on trustee panels by the Justice Department, we began investigating what all he was into. Not hoping to get any results, we nevertheless applied under the Freedom of Information law to get data on Brandt. Wow! One day an envelope arrives from the U.S. Justice Department. Out pops Brandt's dossier. Hey! It shows the American CIA trained him in overseas work, to get rid of CIA operations "fronts", called proprietaries, by falsely claiming they were insolvent. Who was trained to d o this trick? Why, William A. Brandt, Jr.

One day I am sitting in the back of Judge Schmetterer's courtroom in my wheelchair, as a journalist and observer. During a recess, the Judge addressing me directly even though I was not part of the litigation, "You know, Mr. Skolnick, everyone in the co uthouse knows of Mr. Brandt's CIA background. There is nothing there for you to comment on."

We have been tracking Schmetterer for years. Going back to the time he was a prosecutor. At one time, he was himself part of the auctioneering and liquidating industry active as part of the Chicago U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

We found out that the various Bankruptcy Judges in Chicago kept William A. Brandt, Jr. quite busy. Some 15 or more sizeable firms were shoved, perhaps falsely to plunder them, into bankruptcy. One such firm interested us greatly. It was a gold smelting firm, reportedly run by hoodlums handling smuggled gold, apparently once in a while for the American CIA and even, on occasion, for foreign spy agencies. Some of those running the firm were terminated or scared off. How, well by murdering them, shooting at him and they survived, and such. Terrorism. And who becomes the new CEO of this gold smelting firm, pending in Bankruptcy, why none other than William A. Brandt, Jr. He kept quite busy. In later years, he has been working in Red China, reorganizing and restructuring some of China's state-owned in dustries. We have reason to believe that Brandt was well aware of the activities of the Red Chinese Secret Police, laundering dope and other illicit funds disguised as soybeans and such, on the Chicago exchanges. [Visit our extensive web stories about t he Red Chinese Secret Police, including their operations with Wal-Mart and murder and mayhem on U.S. soil.] Brandt was likewise big with the Democrat Party. In 2000, he served as a member of that party's Platform Committee.

Just about the time Paul Marcinkus arrived back in Chicago, in or about November, 1991, there was in session a very special federal grand jury, investigating as following

[1] How Israeli intelligence, The Mossad, either authorized by the State of Israel or as renegades on U.S. soil, were skimming off large sums to be sent overseas, from the rackets in the Chicago Bankruptcy Courts.

[2] Being explored, was what was going to be done about Chicago U.S. Bankruptcy Court Chief Judge John D. Schwartz, a purported secret official of the First National Bank of Cicero. He has parked offshore, for himself and other judges of "The Club", 140 million dollars. He has apparently not filed or paid federal income taxes for 30; years. [See part one of this series.]

[3] Can one of the lower level members of "The Club" be quickly and quietly thrown away into jail, such as on tax evasion charges, so as to protect the important members of "The Club". The special federal prosecutor was toying with this knotty problem.

[4] Can the special federal grand jury be steered, by the special federal prosecutor, in such a way as to protect the hotshots of "The Club".

[5] An important special federal grand jury witness was Wallace Lieberman, a Chicago U.S. Bankruptcy Court auctioneer and liquidator, who has personal knowledge of a lot of what is mentioned herein, and could competently testify about it to the federal grand jury.

Questions remained. Will the U.S. Marshals Service protect Wallace Lieberman under their Federal Witness Protection Program? And if they intended to do so, was he being protected?

[Longtime after 1991, it came out that the then head of the Federal Witness Protection Program in Chicago was also a business partner of a gangster. "Marshal linked to mob 'friend' " was the headline. The story went on to say, "Most troubling to the law enforcement community is that the U.S. Marshals Service runs the ultra-secretive federal witness protection program, where mob turncoats cooperating with the government hid from their old pals. Mobsters who turn on their associates are relocated for th eir safety--often with their extended families--and given new identities, jobs, cash and even bodyguards." Chicago Sun-Times story about gangster John Serpico and former U.S. Marshal Peter J. Wilkes. 8/16/1999.

Was Wallace Lieberman a mob turncoat, turning on his associates?

By December, 1991, we uncovered data about the special federal grand jury. As a test, I arranged a meeting with an Assistant U.S. Attorney. (They used to call them U.S. District Attorney, and they handled both federal criminal prosecutions as well as re presenting the U.S. government in civil matters.) To the meeting, he brought in one of those no-real-name FBI agents. I detailed a lot of what is contained in this website series. As I was talking about Chief Judge John D. Schwartz, the federal prosecut or, with an apparent slip of the lip, confirms that the Chief Judge Schwartz matter is pending before the special federal grand jury. The FBI agent glares at the federal prosecutor, saying "Why are you telling Skolnick this?" [Over the years I found out lots about that federal prosecutor that he was not to be trusted. In 1995, he was appointed as part of a special federal prosecutorial team to prosecute Timothy McVeigh, the supposed "lone bomber" of the federal office building i! n Oklahoma City, April 19, 1995. That federal prosecutor, in my judgment, went along with the vast cover-up of U.S. government prior knowledge to the multiple bombings that took down that building.]

After the meeting with that assistant U.S. Attorney, we found out data that Lieberman was apparently trying to blackmail his way into a very lucrative crooked deal reportedly involving Paul Marcinkus, William A. Brandt, Jr., the First National Bank of C icero, Chief Judge Cummings, Jr.,and other apparent members of "The Club". Lieberman fashioned himself an expert blackmailer, and that he could get away with doing such a thing.

On a weekend, shortly before Christmas, 1991, Wallace Lieberman was found shot to death, mafia-style, his body parked next to a rear wall of an auto repair shop. Guess where? Why, not far from the First National Bank of Cicero! Had he been trying to sha ke them down in person? Or did another faction, planting him dead there, use that to shakedown the bank in Cicero? The local press played down the story, as if it had no importance. The Chicago Tribune went along with the cover-up running the story on C hristmas day, December 25, 1991 headlined "Northbrook auctioneer found slain". The story did mention that a gangster's wife (apparently a partner of Lieberman) was Lieberman's secretary. That was gangster Robert Belavia, previously although a known hood lum was "untouchable" as far as the federal bureaucracy was concerned. He was hustled into jail. U.S. District Court Judge Ann Claire Williams, a former federal prosecutor, did the usual whitewash. We tried to intervene with a spe! cial petition to point out what the Belavia case was really all about, linked to the murder of Lieberman. She quickly pushed us out of court and the whitewash cotinued. Judge Williams was rewarded by being made a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Ch icago.

And who was happy about the unsolved crime of the murder of Wallace Lieberman? Was William A. Brandt, Jr. thereafter more at ease, like Chief Judge John D. Schwartz? Were the criminals in with Paul Marcinkus and the First National Bank of Cicero happier thereafter?

Several years after this political assassination, we did, on-site, a one hour documentary about the murder of Wallace Lieberman. We put it on our public access Cable TV Program, "Broadsides". We interviewed the owner of the auto repair shop, near the ba nk in Cicero. He talked candidly but we promised not to video his face. He showed us where Lieberman's Mercedes was found in the nearby alley and how Lieberman's body was left in such a way like a traditional mafia "hit". After the murder in 1991, the s tate and federal authorities seemed along with the local police, to not want to pursue the matter.

More coming....Stay tuned.

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THE BANKRUPTCY BORDELLO, Part 3

by Sherman H. Skolnick 6/9/03

The Reports

The file cabinets in the head office were bulging. Complaints from those who claimed they were victimized by corrupt practices in the California U.S. Bankruptcy Courts. Assignees of the Bankruptcy Courts selling back to bankrupt retailers the best of th eir fresh inventory at a knock-down, under the table price, for an appropriate pay-off so the retailer could go back in business and undersell any competitor. Same type of complaints as to manufacturing firms, and corporate operations.

Complaints with specific details of Trustees in the California U.S. Bankruptcy Courts working unholy deals for their own personal profits.

Specific details of domestic and foreign interests, including resident apparently renegade officials of various spy agencies, such as Italy and Israel, falsely and fraudulently forcing mid-size firms, even larger ones, into bankruptcy, so the firms coul d be plundered by the "California Bankruptcy Club".

Details about California U.S. Bankruptcy Judges, in several federal districts, who granted all the motions and petitions, regardless of the law and the facts and the merits, of "favorites", those who had some out-of-court financial link to the Judges an d their immediate relatives and former law and business partners, or secret present business partners.

Specific complaints about auctioneers of the California U.S. Bankruptcy Courts un-padlocking the rear doors of firms in bankruptcy and selling the goods at knock-down prices, back to the debtors, or to competing firms, and anybody else willing to pay "u nder the table". And the bankruptcy auctions were mysterioously cancelled.

And the file cabinets likewise were jammed full of notes of FBI and other government investigators, state and federal.

Notes from the several different federal district officials of the Criminal Division of the Internal Revenue Service. And then there were apparent documents, records, and notes that may have originated from the American CIA regarding California criminal gangs from Italy, Israel, and a few other places. It was not clear from the records exactly where these records, file d away in the full file cabinets, were coming from. The notes fingered Israeli operatives and those of the Roman Catholic Church, operating in California more or less as part of criminal enterprises.

There were extensive specific notes of the operations of the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza, owning most of the banks in California and intersecting with the Bankruptcy rackets and the forwarding of illicit funds through secret accounts.

There was parked away in one of the cabinets, specific notes of a government bank investigator, looking into criminal activities of Wells Fargo Bank and Bank of America, among others. He was fired for digging too deep into the latter day activities of t he Yakuza and the California banks. It was a disturbance to American-Japanese relations , however, to be messing around in this subject. Besides, the Japanese, including the Yakuza, owned upwards of 40 per cent of all U.S. Treasury Securities. A little secret. The Japanese had their purchases of U.S. Treasuries back by gold, a benefit not extended to U.S. buyers of the same. No one in authority wanted to set off a Japanese run, Yakuza or not, on banks. [But see part 2 of this series as to Continental Bank Chicago.]

Housed in the locked cabinets were specific notes from well-informed tipsters and would-be government whistle blowers. They complained there was no remedy in that the U.S. Treasury Inspector General was, as described in their notes, "the highest rankin g mafia representative in the U.S. government".

A Congressional subcommittee had a detailed report, not published, and maybe never to be made public, somehow slipped out to "trouble-makers" and certain loudmouths, such as in Chicago and elsewhere.

And topping all this off were the secret reports of very Special Federal Grand Juries, sitting in more than one federal district in California, investigating all these goings on.

What was the problem? The files were in the head office of the Chief Federal Prosecutor in one of the Federal Districts in California. So what is wrong with that?

The U.S. Attorney as he is called in his official title, had failed, for years and years, to take any remedial action as to this. Supposedly, under the rules and procedures of his office, it was entirely "within his discretion", whether to proceed or no t to have somebody indicted on federal criminal charges. So he just filed away all this data in his head office. He had a hang up. One of many. His immediate family member was a culprit, most likely subject to federal criminal prosecution, in the dirty business of the "California Bankruptcy Club". And moreover, the prosecutor came out of certain law firms and law circles up to their eyeballs in the same rackets.

Another problem was the heavy hitters in finance. The records and witness statements showed the illicit funds skimmed off of the California U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, were going offshore, through secret accounts in California banks. One such named was Well s Fargo. But they also funneled clandestine funds for the whole Pacific Basin covert operations of the American CIA. And a major owner of Wells Fargo is Warren Buffet, the Omaha poobah who claims he became a billionaire from properly operating a local f urniture store. For sarcastic reasons, we prefer to pronounce his name as BUFFAY. We are not the only ones who suspect his fortune is based in part on CIA operations, and even, reportedly, dope trafficking on a big scale. [See our extensive series "Coca -Cola, CIA, and the Courts". Warren Buffet is a major Coke stockholder and has been a Board member.]

Another big-time operation, once headquartered in San Francisco but now in North Carolina, tied to the Bankruptcy rackets is Bank of America, and their holding company (minus the OF in the middle of the name) Bank America. As to the rotten history of Ba nk of America, now greatly owned by the Yakuza, see our website stories "The Pope's Banks in America, the Giannini Family, and the American CIA, Part One" and "The Japanese Mafia in the United States".

Print - Close Window DateSun, 8 Jun 2003 043726 -0700 (PDT)From"Sherman Skolnick" SubjectTHE BANKRUPTCY BORDELLO, Part 3 by Sherman H. Skolnick SECTION TWO OF STORYToskolnick@Ameritech.Net The way cases proceed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts is the U.S. Bankruptcy Court is in a federal district. Any appeal, if one is taken, goes to the U.S. District Court in the district, with the Bankruptcy Court considered a step-sister to the U.S. Distr ict Court. The federal judges higher up in the system select who, if anyone, is to sit as a judge or Chief Judge in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, for a 14 year term. This is unlike the other federal judges who sit for life subject only to "good behavior" a nd they are almost impossible by impeachment to be removed. A Bankruptcy Judge is subject to the supervision of the Chief Judge of the U.S. Courts of Appeals in the circuit, California being part of the 9th Circuit, of several western states. The federa l appeals court, 9th Circuit, is headquartered in San Francisco.

Like in Chicago and elsewhere in major federal districts, the California U.S. District Court Judges and U.S. Court of Appeals judges have quite a few skeletons in their closet. Key judges are also, as we describe, Banker-Judges, tied to banks, particula rly so of several judges on the 9th Circuit.

A reliable source told us to expect a package. One day comes the package. Wow! Out pops the secret reports of the very Special Federal Grand Juries in California. No real return address was on the package. It detailed a mess many times bigger than that we knew about the Chicago Bankruptcy Club.

One of the Reports referred to their key witness, code-named "Jacobs". He was apparently disgruntled about being cheated out of very lucrative deals by the grand jury-identified members of The Club, Judges, Court Clerks, Assignees, Auctioneers, Trustees , the Bankruptcy gang in short.

"Jacobs" had direct personal knowledge of the facts to which he was competently testifying and stated he would continue to testify to the Special Federal Grand Juries. A summary of his testimony

[1] That he handled a great deal of the illicit proceeds and skimming of the various California Bankrupty Club members.

[2] That through Wells Fargo and Bank America and Bank of America, at several branches and locations, in and out of the U.S., he handled and caused the funds so obtained to be placed into secret accounts. That he read off the account names, numbers, sec ret passwords and codes. Some of the funds went to Wells Fargo drop-off points such as in Hawaii. [With the downturn in tourism, Japanese nationals (not U.S. citizens) bought upwards of 70 per cent of properties in Hawaii. And a huge number of Japanese nationals now live in Hawaii. Some contend this situation undercuts the validity of Hawaii being a n actual part of "The United States of America", and more properly, is a Japanese colony under the jurisdiction of the Tokyo government. Of course, a great deal of this situation is the apparent headquartering in Hawaii of operations of the Yakuza, numb ering many more members than the traditional Italian and Sicilian mafias. The Yakuza is generally not bothered by American authorities because they do covert operations worldwide for the American CIA.]

[3] He read off the names of California U.S. District Judges, part of "The Club". Also Club members are several judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, through their link up to banks, identified and detailed by the witness.

[4] The witness detailed how some of the illicit funds, corruptly skimmed off of phoney and fraudulent bankruptcy cases and their assets and properties, were put into non-bank transactions, to cover up the trail through the holding firm, Bank America, NOT a bank of deposit. Some of the Bank America dealings for The Club was through little k nown branches in South America, which the witness detailed.

[5] That "Jacobs" knew and detailed specifics of some of the related secret accounts, passwords, and numbers, of relatives of various federal judges; with the relatives acting as their agents for the handling of the illicit funds. Since the U.S. Supreme Court permits only a handful of cases from the lower courts to be heard in Washington, the federal appeals court inSan Francisco is the "end of the line" for cases originating in the federal districts in California.

[6] "Jacobs" gave specific details and dates how at least two supervisory officials in California of the Internal Revenue Service were corrupted and compromised in a commotion between two competing firms, both apparently owned by Israelis, and one of th e firms facing possible bankruptcy court protection, real or possibly phoney and arranged. [A Congressional subcommittee report noted that the U.S. Treasury somehow did not punish those IRS officials but instead, they were promoted, apparently with the connivance of the U.S. Treasury Inspector General, mentioned as "the highest mafia representative in the U.S. government".

Print - Close Window DateSun, 8 Jun 2003 051846 -0700 (PDT)From"Sherman Skolnick" SubjectTHE BANKRUPTCY BORDELLO, Part 3 by Sherman H. Skolnick SECTION THREE OF STORYToskolnick@Ameritech.Net [7] "Jacobs" testified that he was a form of trusted "accountant" or "book-keeper" for the illicit funds, proceeds of the Bankruptcy rackets in California. He became aware of the rewards but also the jeopardies. Like a "mob book-keeper", he said he was warned he could not "retire" from this work, except to the cemetery.

"Jacobs" was a key insider witness, a turncoat, necessary to understand the workings of the "California Bankruptcy Club" and their members. Was he given the protection of the ultra-secret Federal Witness Protection Program? Or were the federal officials , operating the program, also in business with criminals, mobsters, and the underworld in general?

Like Wallace Lieberman (mentioned in Part two of this series), "Jacobs" was murdered. His body was found laying under a bridge.

Our reliable sources filled in the gaps. The highly politicized and corrupt U.S. Justice Department blocked any possible indictments. Too big a problem. They were not about to take down a large part of the banking system in California as well as the fed eral judges. And besides, the Special Federal Prosecutor no longer had a live key witness.

The Justice Department, knowing how to hush up messy matters, after the rub-out of "Jacobs", had their gang ransack the offices, homes, and other places of "Jacobs". Key sources, close to the "Horse's mouth", informed us in detail, how this mass of note books, records, and computer stuff, was hauled away, shredders for the papers, the hammer for the hard disks.

So, apparently members of the California Bankruptcy Club are at ease these days. What insider would become a new turncoat, subject to no government protection and very likely to be snuffed out. "Jacobs" was very likely bumped off by the duplicity of the federals.

William A. Brandt, Jr., has offices in Los Angeles. [See part two of this series as to him.] Yes, it would simplify our understanding of the matter if we could, in L.A., find a reputed mob gold smelting outfit of which Brandt could somehow in Bankruptcy , be in charge of as the new CEO. Wells Fargo, with the aid of CIA darling Warren Buffet, can continue, without difficulty, doing their covert operations money laundering for the American CIA. Does anyone dare ask Warren Buffet, as a major purported sto ckholder of Wells Fargo, if HE knows anything about the spy agency and the funding of political assassinations? What mass media reporter could pin down Buffet with such a question, and still have a job and be employable within the monopoly press?

Can the Vatican, which retains an interest in Bank America, jointly with the Yakuza, dare remedy anything? After all, look what happened to Pope John Paul THE FIRST, croaked after only 33 days in office. ["In God's Name" by David Yallop, 1983. And John Paul 2nd survived an attempted assassination in 1981,to remind him not to mess with such matters.] Some useful related matter can be seen on http//www.defraudingamerica.com/ It is a website of a very well-informed crusader againsst corruption, Rodney Stich.

 

More coming....Stay tuned.

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THE BANKRUPTCY BORDELLO, Part 4

by Sherman H. Skolnick 6/10/03

Clubbing the Asians

The mass media have their own understanding of what the public wants to read, view, or hear. For tv, their nameless, faceless program consultants have a motto, "If it bleeds, it leads." So, they are not inclined to send their high-paid reporters to cove r business cases in the federal courts, for example, which may educate the common people to problems, to put it crudely, of the whorehouses of justice.

As an unpaid free-lance journalist, waiting to observe a case we were following, one day in the Chicago Bankruptcy Courts, I saw something in the hearing of another case. It was before Chicago U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Jack B. Schmetterer, according to our inquiries apparently thick with Israeli intelligence, the Mossad.

In front of his bench, to the left stood a short little Chinese woman. To the right, lined up were 12 lawyers. It no longer puzzled me that they had Jewish last names, and Christian first names. Most of them. That item has to be explained later in this series.

The woman spoke haltingly as best she could in her poor command of English.

Chinese woman "Judge, me family 14 Hong Kong. Work years. Save money. Me come Chicago for family. Buy shopping center. Business okay. Dirty bank no like me. Push me bankrupp. Lie. Me no bankrupp. No money you give for me family. Brothers fly Chicago. N o lawyer. You no money for family. Why give 300 thousand dollar these lawyers.Me nothing? Why? (She started crying)."

Judge Jack B. Schmetterer "The law provides that lawyers must get their fees. I am obligated to award them fees. They presented a petition for fees on behalf of other interests."

[Most every judge in the major federal district U.S. Bankruptcy Courts are able to so quickly refer to the Bankruptcy statutes, they could make ten cases brought by angels dance on a golden pin. They rapidly twist the laws supposedly to fit the facts.]

Judge "I am granting the fee petitions as they seem to be in order."

The 12 lawyers, practically like a choir in unison, said "Thank you, your Honor" and rapidly departed the apparent scene of their crime.

On another day, following up a tip, we began thumbing through a huge file marked "Rusty Jones". They once were a heavily advertised rust-proofing firm, spraying or somehow applying their mixture of undercoating to prevent further rusting-out of cars. We discovered a typical rusting out of justice.

A group of lawyers were shown on the docket as being paid huge fees. Part of the docket as shown on the Clerk's Office Computer was incomplete. Item numbers were garbled or gone. So I went to the Bankruptcy Clerk's Office and started asking questions.

Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts "Sir, who is in charge of the dockets on your computer?"

Deputy Bankruptcy Clerk "The tall fellow across the hall in that office (pointing)."

Citizen's Committee "But, sir, there is no number on that office door, nothing. Who is there." He refused to further answer. I knocked on the unmarked door. No answer. So i was determined to find out what was behind this door. I parked my wheelchair r ight in front of the door, in such a way, whosoever comes out of that room will have to be quite athletic, to jump over my wheelchair to escape me.

After about an hour, the door opens.

Tall person "Hey, let me out!"

Citizen's Committee "You aint getting past me, til you tell me your title and what you have to do with the Clerk's computer."

Tall person "I am the private consultant that sees that everything is running."

Citizen's Committee "How is the docket changed if it is ever changed?"

Tall person (naming supervisor with latino name) "She has the key."

Citizen's Committee "You mean, a key like to a lock?"

Tall person "No, the code to get into the docket entries and change them if necessary."

So I searched out that supervisor.

Citizen's Committee "I have here a print-out of five different cases, dockets. Take a look, you can see the case numbers. Each one has been altered, where the fees were awarded to lawyers. Concealed apparently is some data. The tall consultant from the unmarked door over there, said YOU are the office supervisor with the code or key. WHY have the docket entries been altered? WHO ordered YOU to do that? And WHY?"

Clerk supervisor "I am not answering. I have to call my lawyer."

Citizen's Committee "Ma'm, are you pleading the Fifth Amendment or what?"

Clerk supervisor "I have to call my lawyer." (She quickly fled from my presence.)

We began digging into what the Rusty Jones case was all about. Funny thing, the head lawyer of the law firm getting big bucks, was born in Israel. We surmised, is the firm part of the split from "The Club". And what is anyone in this place concealing? D oes the IRS know that details of the fees are made to disappear? But then, we have documented the corruption about the top official of the Chicago District office of the Internal Revenue Service.

One day, a Japanese national has a meeting with us.

Citizen's Committee You told us, there is trouble with the Rusty Jones case. What is that about?

Print - Close Window Japanese national "I am in America on behalf of our auto firm."

Citizen's Committee "So you represent (naming firm)."

Japanese national "I am the (names his position as top official) of the firm. This is a serious problem."

Citizen's Committee "What is THAT problem?"

Japanese national "Lawyers representing certain interests apparently in the Rusty Jones case, contend we owe them forty million dollars. They are false claims, yet they are bringing some kind of a supplementary action in the Bankruptcy Court to tie us up in America. They keep saying it will cost us more than forty million."

Citizen's Committee "What remedy did you seek?"

Japanese national "I hope you understand, in Japan we have very few lawyers. It is a disgrace for somebody to be seen going to the courts there to start up with another firm or a neighbor. A loss of face. Very bad. But I have complained in Chicago to t he Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Justice Department, even to the judge himself. All the doors close on us. There is something wrong with your courts and your system of justice. I cannot say anything public because there is a Ministry in Japa n that would punish us for interfering with relations with the U.S. There is some kind of a system, particularly here in Chicago, according to some of my friends here, to extort sums of money, or cheat Asians through your courts. Maybe I should have und erstood, as I had part of my business education in a top University in the U.S."

Citizen's Committee "Well, name some of the lawyers. By the way, did you learn about shakedown and extortion when you attended that University in the U.S.?"

Japanese national "Well, the full details of the lawyers I found out are not fully disclosed in the court record. A principal partner is actually an Israeli. (Starts naming the law firm partners.) You know anything about such things? In answer to your other question, no, my university professors never said a single word about shakedown and extortion in business relations in America."

Citizen's Committee "Yes, we very much understand. Do you have attorneys in Chicago representing your interests?"

Japanese national "Yes, but they do not seem like they will really help us. They seem to go along with some kind of a system you have in Chicago that I do not fully understand. It would not be allowed back in my home land."

Citizen's Committee "Well, these lawyers that are in the Rusty Jones case, that claim your firm owes so much. What do they want?"

Japanese national "Well, they want us to pay a down-payment of 800 thousand U.S. Dollars, in cash, to them, away from the courthouse., actually to accounts in the Grand Caymans. They are threatening harm against us, just like the Yakuza in Osaka. My f amily is worried. But it is my task to find out what to do."

Citizen's Committee "Will 800 thousand end the problem?"

Japanese national "Tell me, is there a system in your country that I do not understand. Is it permitted to give large gifts of money to judges in the courthouse? It seems like these lawyers want a series of payments as gift to judges who are not on this pending matter. What is tha t about? And from what they are threatening me and my firm, the 800 thousand gift, is just the beginning of a series of gifts."

Citizen's Committee "Your own lawyers, did you divulge this extortion to THEM?"

Japanese national "No, this other group of lawyers are friends of my local attorneys. I fear it would be unwise to tell my own lawyers what is going on. Someone locally told me you are known for keeping matters like this confidential. Please, for the s ake of my family back home, do not use my name publicly nor my exact title with our firm."

Print - Close Window We found out from reliable sources that he apparently began payments, some to the Judges and "The Club" members of a compromised amount, of 400 thousand dollars each payment. The "book-keeper" of "The Club" arranged to deposit the funds in the Grand Cay mans and the Channel Islands. Banks from all over the world have their units there for clandestine dealings.The Chicago District office of the IRS Criminal Division has the facts, but sit on their corrupt hands.[See our extensive website series on IRS c orruption.]

Some asians doing business in Chicago appear to understand the corrupt system and simply help themselves. Several Koreans operated an electronics supply business. They had a dispute with their bank which apparently wanted to shove them into the hands of the Bankruptcy Club, proper claim or false claim, it did not seem to matter. And how did the Koreans reportedly deal with the situation?

Well, they were accused of apparently starting a fire to burn down their own business. They escaped. But a tragedy occurred. Two Chicago firemen lost their life when, while inside the building fighting the flames, the roof collapsed on them.

The spy-riddled, oil-soaked monopoly press is busy with idle stories about fires in abandoned mattress factories, or non-political murder and mayhem locally. Informing the common people of what is really going on does not interest the liars and whores o f the press, those with the fifty dollar hairdoes and the nickel heads.

More coming...Stay tuned.

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THE BANKRUPTCY BORDELLO, Part 5

by Sherman H. Skolnick 6/10/03

Untrusted Trustees

Our group consists, among other things, of volunteer investigators, researchers, and data bloodhounds. Over more than four and one half decades we have compiled a mass of material on our favorite subjects, of which we have repeatedly publicly demonstrat ed expertise. That is, court corruption, banker-judges, and bankruptcy court hanky-panky.

One night, some of our group were at a meeting, unrelated to our usual work. They were sitting, concidentally or otherwise, next to a sizeable businessman. After some preliminary chit-chat, they sought to elicit some real discussion, of which one may pr esume they had some prior indication.

Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts "What do you do?"

Businessman "I own a chain of hardware stores."

Citizen's Committee "Are there any problems in your industry? (Pretending not to know.)"

Businessman "Plenty. Competition and price undercutting near wrecked me. I could not pay my suppliers and vendors. I had to file for Bankruptcy."

Citizen's Committee "In Chicago's U.S. Bankruptcy Court? (He nodded, Yes.)"

Businessman "One night this fellow shows up at my home. Introduces himself as a U.S. Trustee. Understand, my stores were padlocked, awaiting an auction. So, he asks me my estimate of how much of my inventory is reasonably fresh goods, that could easily be sold in one or more stores of my chain. So, I tell him, it is about two hundred thousand dollars. He says if I pay him 35 thousand dollars cash, I will have back my inventory and he will see to it that at least one of my stores will be un-padlocked.

Auction to be cancelled."

Citizen's Committee "Did you ask him whether this money was to be split up among your creditors or what?"

Businessman "Oh, I aint stupid. He made it plain. It was for him personally, and his friends, sort of under the table. No receipt was to be issued. So, I was anxious to re-open. at least one of my stores in an upscale neighborhood in the Chicago area.

So I paid the cash on the sly to him."

Citizen's Committee "So what is the problem?"

Businessman "I thought I paid him in full. But he and his friends are trying, to blackmail me, to get me to pay them more now. And, the bastards did not give me back all of my choicest inventory. They apparently, un-padlocked the store themselves, stol e some of the inventory, and sold it on the black market."

At a later date, some of our group found a time and a place to "accidentally" sit down next to this U.S. Trustee, at a meeting unrelated to court corruption and such. Volunteers "What do you do? (Pretending not to know.)"

Trustee "I am a court-approved U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee."

Volunteers "(After more preliminary chit-chat, they start asking some real questions.) One of my pals contends you paid Judge (naming him) of the federal court, five big ones to get approved. Is that true?"

Trustee "Hey, what are you guys here hermits or something? You do not reward those who do you useful favors? C'mon. this is Chicago."

Volunteers "We also understand you are a sizeable stockholder of Garfield Ridge Trust and Savings Bank (of Chicago)."

Trustee "Is there a law against it?"

Volunteers "Oh, no, of course not. If Al Capone were still alive, he would not be prevented from owning a substantial share of that bank."

Trustee "So what's the beef?"

Volunteers "Well, we happen to know the dope money from the Mena, Arkansas airport deal with the American CIA, reportedly has a transit point through Garfield Ridge Trust & Savings Bank, on the way to being laundered by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

And your fellow sizeable stockholders have been your Bank Board Chairman, Daniel Shannon, who apparently is a super-spook formerly of the U.S. Secret Service. And another fellow sizeable bank stockholder is defrocked former U.S. Congressman Daniel Rost enkowski, sent to federal prison for defrauding the private bank of the U.S. Congress."

Trustee "I don't know what the hell you are talking about. Mena, who? Mercantile Exchange? Never heard of them. Goodbye already."

[Our website has numerous stories relating to the dope money laundering reportedly through this Chicago bank enroute to Chicago markets. One bank investigator, with a sense of humor, once told us that ostensibly so much illicit loot is going this route, guess what, he says? They are reportedly bringing into the bank at night, through a side entrance, boxes all marked "toilet paper" and containing so many hundred dollar bills, they do not count them, instead just weighing them. Same thing they do appar ently through the American CIA dope money banks in Southern Florida. So much cash was coming in there from the dope trade, the crooked Federal Reserve had to set up a district branch there. By the way, the bank investigator said his higher ups reportedl y told him to shut up about this bank and do his work elsewhere.]

[As mentioned in several of our previous website stories, the money from Arkansas is the reputed proceeds from dope trade through Northwest Arkansas, right where the sinister headquarters is of Wal-Mart and Red Chinese dope coming into the U.S. directly from Southwest China. See our series, "Wal-Mart and the Red Chinese Secret Police.". The tiny First National Bank of Mena (Arkansas) is apparentedly owned by the Riady ethnic Chinese group, tied to Clinton/Bush, and also great implicated with the appar ent money laundry, headquartered in North Carolina, called First Union.]

- One of the strangest group of details to be worked on by our group in over four decades revolved around a lawyer named James R. Vassilos. It took us several years to unravel what he was really all about. He originally came to us complaining about specif ic instances of Divorce Court corruption in Chicago's Domestic Relations Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County. We already knew of the massive corruption of which he spoke. So, on that subject, we put him as a guest on our weekly, one-hour taped public access Cable TV Program, "Broadsides" on Divorce Court dirty business..

His estranged wife was heiress to the Dutch bank octopus fortune, Algemene Bank Nederland. So important was Vassilos with his wife, that in years past when the Queen of Holland visited Chicago, Vassilos and his wife were among the very, very select few to have an audience with the Queen and kiss the Royal hand. His brother-in-law, Theo Bark, at one time was a director of ABN. Vassilos in later years told us how his brother-in-law reportedly taught Jim the fine art of money laundering, worldwide, using a German air carrier package delivery, similar to Federal Express.

Vassilos claimed his brother-in-law played a key role ostensibly in the corruption of their American flagship, La Salle National Bank, which they bought from the gold stolen from the Soviet gold treasury, upon the downfall of the Moscow government. [Det ails in part one of this website series.] He also claimed his brother-in-law played a role purportedly in running Saudi Air Lines under a contract with the major Dutch Air carrier.

A year after he approached us, he told us he ran the local version of the National Day of Prayer, May, 1992. He gave us the honor of sitting at the front table, right in front of the stage. We were somewhat amused by Jim's habit of mentioning Jesus Chr ist in every few words. Present in the Grand Ballroom of a major downtown Chicago hotel, the meeting had many bigshots. U.S. Senators, U.S. Congressmen, top officials of the federal bureaucracy, such as from the Chicago District Office of the Internal R evenue Service, a representative of the Mayor of Chicago, luminaries of every type and kind there present.

It took us years to find out, from investigating him, and talking off the record with pals ofJim Vassilos what that was all about. He was using these links, under the disguise of pushing Jesus Christ and such, as way to get under the skin of top local, state, and federal government officials.

In later years we discovered that two years before he met us, he had quietly filed for bankruptcy in Chicago's U.S. Bankruptcy Court. It was on behalf of him and his law office. Strange. It came up before Chief Bankruptcy Judge John D. Schwartz. The IRS was listed as a major creditor. But the Chief Judge refused to allow them to question Jim. More than that, the Chief Judge did not require Vassilos to disclose his ten law partners of his law office. We later found out, by interviewing knowledgeable so urces in the building they used to occupy, that Vassilos split up his law partners in several different offices scattered throughout the building, as if they were not one entity actually. [As to the Chief Judge, see part one of this series.]

How did Vassilos get the Chief Judge to cover up so much? Simple. Blackmail. He raised the issues as we later discovered about the Chief Judge, and the First National Bank of Cicero, and the whole dirty mess of "The Club". Vassilos and others in his com bine, had penetrated "The Club". Their records were turned over to certain loudmouths.

His mentioning of Jesus Christ so often seemed to be a front for his blackmail and bribery work. He carried around always, two bibles, one for real, one hollowed out with a gun inside. He had also been the private attorney for the Deputy Director of the American CIA. He had a specialty of going around the country, visiting former CIA pilots who were framed and put in jail, to discredit them and shut them up about how they discovered their planes were used, for example, for the dope traffic from Hondur as to the CIA airport, at Mena, Arkansas. The whole Mena mess was run by Daddy Bush, Ollie North, and Clinton as Arkansas Governor.

Once on the way back from interviewing, or spying on, some of these former pilots, Vassilos was mysteriously grabbed from his vehicle while he was parked at a forest rest stop on the highway. He was kept in jail---get this---without any actual charges a gainst him. The downstate Illinois judge was puzzled as to how Vassilos was supposedly arrested and dumped into a local jail by operatives of the American CIA. Jim called us collect, and one of our group went to retrieve his vehicle. And wow! To try to find out what happened to him, we opened his huge suitcase, left in his vehicle.

What did we discover? That he owned 500,000 shares in a supposed entity called "Venezuela Telephone Company". Later, one of the tv networks did a documentary claiming the company was a front for dope trafficking by renegade types of the U.S. Drug Enforc ement Administration.

Over a period of years, we found out how the top officials of the Chicago District Office of the Internal Revenue Service were bribed by Vassilos, he having got under their skin through his Jesus Christ mouthing off.

One day members of our group had a meeting with two top officials of the Criminal Division of the Chicago Office of the IRS. Toward the end of a conference of three hours and fifteen minutes, they finally came around to what was on their mind. They hear d that we had the bribery confession of James R. Vassilos, specifics how he bribed the top brass of the Chicago IRS. AND THAT WE WERE ABOUT TO PUT IT ON THE AIR THROUGH OUR TV SHOW.

"Mr. Skolnick, if you proceed to prepare to put that on the air, we will stop you. We will come and arrest you and your team." They had earlier in the meeting given us their business card stamped in gold, with their name, title, and direct contact numbers.

How to counter-attack? Across from the cable studio is Kinko's Copy Service. For our tv show, we had the IRS bosses' business card enlarged to 16 x 20. It became the backdrop for our whole one hour show. That did the trick!

Also, we put into undisputed court records, the details how Vassilos bribed Chicago U.S. District Court Judge Harry D. Leinenweber, whose wife used her maiden name, Lynn Martin, and had been a member of Congress and then the head of the U.S. Labor Depar tment. This was done by Vassilos to torpedo the validity of a 32 million dollar judgment that someone wanted blocked.

Vassilos had a big problem with the U.S. Labor Department, regarding a family business. The federals wanted to collect big bucks from Vassilos and certain relatives. How did he stop that? Simple. He was an expert on bribery. He bribed a top U.S. Labor D epartment official, while getting under their skin with his religious trick, starting out by repeatedly giving the impression he is a holy man, mentioning Jesus Christ every few words.

The details of the Vassilos confession was looked at by a top IRS official in their Inspection division, in Chicago. Off the record, they confirmed that what Vassilos confessed to was most likely true. They obtained a copy of our tv show for the purpose of forwarding it to the U.S. Treasury Inspector General. Of course, I told the local IRS Inspector I had no confidence in the Inspector General, in view of that office having in the past as head man, "the highest mafia representative in the U.S. Govern ment", as confirmed by various law enforcement officials to us.

So, as of the date of this story, nothing has been done to remedy the situation detailed in this series. The U.S. Treasury Inspector General was NOT in any way punished. Nor were the other top IRS officials, nor Judge Leinenweber, or Chief Judge John D.

Schwartz, and the various other culprits herein referred to.

More coming....Stay tuned.

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THE BANKRUPTCY BORDELLO, Part 6

by Sherman H. Skolnick 6/14/03

Bandits and Bigots

A terrible hate sometimes builds up over centuries and centuries. For example, the opposition of the British to the Irish Catholics, across the Irish Sea, builtup from at least the 12th Century when the Pope gave all of Ireland to the British crown as a papal fief. Then there was the Gunpowder Plot of the 17th Century when rightly or wrongly, the Catholics were accused of a scheme to blow up the Parliament. In the Battle of the Boyne, 1690, the Catholic King James II and his French supporters, were de feated by the Protestant King Williams III (of Orange).

Early in the 19th Century, the British military was part of a plan to starve out and murder the Irish, committing genocide against them. It was falsely described in most history books as "The Potato Famine". More than 2 million impoverished Irish Cathol ics set out to escape in voyages to America. Many died enroute across the Atlantic.

[On our public access Cable TV Show in Chicago, we did a three-part series, "The Irish Question", for practically the first time in America, telling how the mostly all pro-British American press has lied for generations about the so-called Irish "Potato Famine". In Chicago, the heavily pro-British Chicago Tribune is forever lambasting the Irish Catholics in City Hall. Since the parent firm, Tribune Company, has as major stockholders members of the British Royal Family, the Tribune never badmouths non -Irish Catholics the same way, giving the prominent Protestants a pass.Thus, we call the Tribune, "The Queen of England's Newspaper".]

The American Aristocracy, heavily dominated by Great Britain, condemned the Irish Catholic influx to the U.S., such as to Boston and Chicago. The Irish did the hard and dangerous work as Firemen and Police, sometimes taking pay-offs to supplement their awful low wages. In Boston and Chicago they became the bureaucrats, likewise sometimes supplementing their paychecks.

In Chicago, from before the American Civil War, or the War Between the States, fomented by the British agitating the natural friction between the North and the South, the French Rothschilds came to be the dominant force in the Chicago Board of Trade.

As official bankers for the Vatican, the Rothschilds used prominent Irish Catholics for trading commodities, to manipulate prices. These pit traders, often with steel nerves, were a layer or two below the Ruling Class, to whom they were beholden.

What wrongs the young speculators actually did or were falsely accused of, should not have been blamed on the large Irish Catholic community collectively, residing in the Chicago area.

[As to how the British, since they invaded the U.S. in the War of 1812, have vowed to destroy the American central government, see our extensive website series, "The Overthrow of the American Republic".]

>From the time of the death of Jesus Christ, Jews were blamed for his demise. During the series of Christian Crusades, that went on for years and years, to grab Jerusalem from the Moslems, the Crusaders proceeded east through Europe. On the way, they co m mitted genocide against the Jews. The Crusaders destroyed Jewish communities, slaughtering prominent Rabbis, and others, all in the name of religion.

By severe prejudice and malice against them, and kept out of the manufacturing guilds and trades, the Jews were barred. So to survive, they took up to shuffling papers and currencies, and becoming despised money-lenders. Some wanted to somehow get highe r in the ladder of power. They became what the Germans call hofjuden, Royal Court Jews. To be acceptable to the Aristocracy, they converted to other religions, retaining, however, their Jewish last names and sometimes adopting Christian first names. The y were, moreover, far too clever not to realize that if something went wrong with their advice and doings with the regime, that they, as the scapegoats, would be thrown away by the Ruling Class to save themselves from public scandal.

In Germany, following their disaster in losing World War One, lawyers and bill collectors with Jewish last names, hofjuden, seized the farms, homes, and properties of ordinary Germans, on behalf of the Prussians and others of the German Ruling Class. Th is was during the devastating runaway Inflation of 1923. The common Germans relying on paper money backed by hot air, needed a truckload of German currency to buy a loaf of bread. The German Aristocracy, on the other hand, having their funds and propert ies supported exclusively by gold-backed currency, were not damaged.

The Jews, or at least those with Jewish last names, were the front for the German Ruling Class to grab the assets of ordinary Germans. The hatred that built up in the common Germans, led to the installation a decade later, of Adolph Hitler, the needed i ron-fisted dictator, they thought, to rescue the economy. There was already an anti-Jewish sentiment in the German psyche and these conditions added to that. About 1980, at a sizeable meeting of the Jewish Geneology Society, I interviewed numerous elderly Jews there present. On tape, I particularly found the ones who grew up in Germany at the time of the rise of Der Fuhrer. They related the details, seldom i f ever publicly mentioned, how the German lawyers and bill collectors, with Jewish last names, exploited and destroyed the ordinary Germans on behalf of the German Aristocracy. Some prominent Jews at the meeting, however, hearing what eyewitness testimo ny I was eliciting and taping, kept threatening to seize my tape recorder and expel me from the meeting. I retained the tapes and used them on the only forum available to me at that time, my recorded phone message commentary. This was before the era of Internet, and Public Access Cable TV, and talk shows as exist nowadays.

In my website story, "The Great Secrets of the 20th Century" Pt 2, I relate how bigshot Chicago-area Jews, or at least those with Jewish surnames, had me falsely arrested when I attended a press conference for the Nazi-hunter, Simon Wiesenthal, visitin g in Chicago from Austria. Me and my wheelchair were seized by a squad of police, and a young Rabbi came behind me, telling me, "Shush, say nothing, go with the police". I protested in vain, What was the crime I committed? I was not told. It had become known that I was about to conduct the first major seminar in America, at the Ballroom of an old downtown Chicago hotel. The subject? "Nazi War Criminals in America" who were not punished as they quietly lived amongst us at that time. And who led an effe ctive boycott against my seminar? Why , two so-called Jewish defense agencies, the Anti-Defamation League and the B'Nai B'Rith (the same ones who have fought to block my non-commercial tv program the last 13 years. Perhaps they we! re upset that as long ago as 1970, I made public statements that the ADL is a spy operation fronting for the American secret political police, like the FBI.)

And get this. I was thus removed, without cause, from the building (since torn down for highrise development) called the Covenant Club, that is, the Ten Commandments Society.

Over a period of decades, I and some of my associates have studied and investigated the phenomenon in the U.S. That is, in most every major city in a federal district, there is a small group of U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judges, lawyers, assignees, trustees, and auctioneers with Jewish last names, some with Christian first names. In places like Chicago, they operate a corrupt enterprise called "The Club".

Both debtors and creditors are plundered by such a group, often numbering about thirty or so. Some firms are falsely pushed into the Bankruptcy Court for the purpose of stealing funds and assets. In some instances operatives of Israeli intelligence, Th e Mossad, either renegades or questionably authorized by the State of Israel, if at all, skim, off some of these stolen treasures to be secretly transmitted supposedly to Tel Aviv. Disputes between the local gang and the Israelis sometimes leads to mur ders. [View the earlier parts of this website series.]

On occasion, I have confronted either members of "The Club" or other prominent supposed Jews. Some typical conversations

Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts "Blacks and latinos, in particular, contact me. They are blunt. 'Those rotten Jew lawyers stole my house and car in Bankruptcy Court. They took a fee promising to save that. And the Jew Judges were part of it. You are a Jew, what are you doing about this?' (Sometimes it appeared to me they were ready to cry.)"

Lawyer with Jewish last name "Why the Hell don't you mind your own damned business? Many of those are dummies. We conduct business, and we do not need your suggestions."

Citizen's Committee "So if someone is black or latino, and you think they are not well educated, and you call them 'dummies', so it is okay to fleece them, right?"

Lawyer "I heard about you. No brains." Citizen's Committee "Do you realize that lawyers like you with Jewish last names, some with Christian first names. Do you realize you are causing a wave of anti-Jewish feeling to be blamed on ALL Jews collectively?"

Lawyer "You have no sense. I should not have started to talk to you at all. Why aren't you trying to protect fellow Jews simply conducting business?"

I once spoke to an old-time lawyer, often busy in the Chicago U.S. Bankruptcy Court. I interviewed him during a court recess.

Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts "Tell me something, how come so many of the lawyers in the Bankruptcy Court have Jewish last names?"

Elderly lawyer "Well, many in this trade started out in the collection business. You probably know, Jews were kept out of certain manufacturing and businesses. So this is how we proceeded. From collection we naturally stepped up to representing debtors in Bankruptcy Court. We try to help people down on their luck, because of illness, or loss of their job, or business reverses, and so on." Citizen's Committee "Yah, but some in your trade, many, in fact, plunder blacks and latinos. You knowingly steer them into Chapter 13, where they have to have a plan to pay-back their creditors. You promise to save their house, their furniture, their c ar, and so on. Yet, you know Chapter 13 is mostly a deadly trap for blacks, latinos, other people of color. And the victims of the work of your colleagues contact me, complaining about 'Those rotten Jew lawyers'. I am a traditional Jew, what am I, with compassion, supposed to tell them?"

Lawyer "Tell them to go and get another job."

Citizen's Committee "And what if the times are bad and jobs cannot easily be found? And by the way, are you a member of 'The Club'?"

Lawyer "I don't know about any Club. Are they listed somewhere?"

Citizen's Committee "Do you realize there is a growing epidemic in America of anti-Jew feeling? And those like a group of Bankruptcy lawyers, auctioneers, and such, are fomenting this hatred."

Lawyer "You don't seem to understand our business at all."

Some spend some time simply criticizing anti-Jew sentiments without bringing up any details which may be, in part, causing it. By the way, by the middle of the 20th Century, with the U.S. having been in a general prosperity, there were a growing number of non-Jews who came to the viewpoint that perhaps the Jews did not kill Jesus Christ after all. But now, because of growing financial hardships in the U.S., there is a sizeable element returning to the previous viewpoint. Something has to be done to sp otlight the situation where a small number of hojuden, are causing in some instances the entire Jewish population to be collectively condemned for what a small number are doing, with Jewish surnames, who may not even anymore be part of the religion.

It is important to openly discuss what happened in Germany leading up to Hitler, which has never, never, never been discussed by the oil-soaked, spy-riddled monopoly press.

More coming....Stay tuned.

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THE BANKRUPTCY BORDELLO, Part 7

CORRUPT BANK-COURTS

 

by Sherman H. Skolnick 4/30/05

They are in a position to know about these things. But the oil-soaked, spy-riddled, massive tax-cheating Monopoly Press will not tell you about these matters. Why? As the mouthpiece for the Anglo-American Aristocracy, they have t oo many financial hang-ups, too many conflicting interests.

Contained here is an overview and summary of the U.S.Bankruptcy Courts in principal cities in America; New York, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, among others.

Some of the details have been in previous stories on www.skolnicksreport.com Other details are from undisputed State and Federal Court records, such as summaries and transcripts of interviews by i ndependent-minded journalists, for example, with principal officials of the Criminal Division, of the Chicago Regional Office, of the Internal Revenue Service and other interviews, sources, and witnesses.

Other details are from not-to-be-disclosed reports of federal grand juries inquiring into runaway corruption of America's bankruptcy courts.

REPORT OF THE BANK-COURTS

"Bankruptcy Clubs", in the various Judicial Districts consisting of principal U.S. Bankruptcy Judges, including Chief Judge, U.S. Trustee (under Justice Department supervision), Trustees, Auctioneers, Assignees, principal Creditors' At torneys, principal Debtors' Attorneys, and Court Clerks including one with password key to change, without notice, computer-generated docket entries; consisting usually about thirty persons total. They meet in secret every month or so.

Bankruptcy Club fees to be paid by Bankruptcy Court attorneys monthly, to get run of the court without legal complications:

For juniors and starters, One Thousand Dollars Per Month;

For full member lawyers who can expect to make profits of a quarter million dollars per year; Three Thousand Dollars per month member fees ; PLUS to guarantee success in Court on special projects or large deals, "Assessments" to be paid without question, to insure "smooth sailing" by Bankruptcy Club attorney-members.

Fee cash totals, minus local district expenses, are sent to offshore tax havens, usually arranged by Chief Bankruptcy Judge or proxy. According to court records, not disputed by the IRS, or the Justice Department, for example, the Chief Bankruptcy Judge in Chicago, handled the "skim off" of the court rackets in the sum of 141 million dollars.

That Chicago Chief Bankruptcy Judge, John D. Schwartz, for example, had been a functionary of the First National Bank of Cicero, which to get the stink off themselves, kept changing their name. Cicero has been the "Land of Al Capone" enclave adjoin ing Chicago. The bank there for many years was dominated by Catholic Bishop Paul Marcinkus, who went on to run the Vatican Bank. The Vatican Bank corruption opposed by Pope John Paul 1st caused him to be poisoned dead after 33 days in office [See, "In God's Name" by David Yallop, 1983 published. For, in part, similar reasons, Pope John Paul 2nd was shot, survived but seriously wounded, 1981. Marcinkus was reportedly guarding John Paul 2nd when he was shotr right in Vatican Square. ]

The body of assassinated federal grand jury witness and whistle-blower, Wallace Lieberman, a Bankruptcy Court Auctioneer, was found near the First National Bank of Cicero, a reputed adjunct to the Bankruptcy Court rackets and "cash transp ort agent" to offshore locations.

Expenses of the Bankruptcy Club:

From "assessments" and other payments, "gifts", "bribes", or "fixers' fees", conveyed to FBI agents receiving complaints but doing nothing about misdeeds in Bankruptcy Court within the jurisdiction of the FBI District office. Average yearly t otal about Two Hundred Thousand Dollars.

Similar "gifts" to some assistant U.S. District Attorneys, in the Office of the Chief Federal Hang-Man, in the District of the Bankruptcy Court: Average yearly total about Three Hundred Thousand Dollars. Some pay-offs in diamonds and/or "gray marke t" Mercedes vehicles.

In one Federal Grand Jury report, the Chief Federal Prosecutor himself in the District failed to act on numerous complaints of Bankruptcy Court corruption. Yet, according to witnesses appearing before the grand jury, the Chief Prosecutor had bulgin g files, with lists of specifics, by eyewitnesses. His hang-up? His own relatives were into the Bankruptcy Court dirty business.

Other "excuses" for failure of Justice Department action, is that some of the "skim off" from the corrupt U.S. Bankruptcy Courts is done, in part, by foreign intelligence agents. Such as, for example, by renegade operatives in Chicago, and other Fe deral Districts, of Israeli Intelligence, The Mossad.

Regardless of the political party occupying the Oval Office, the permanent White House policy is not to interfere with or publicly comment on bloody, evil business of foreign spies on U.S. soil, silence even on shoot-ups and airplane and other dead ly sabotage, between competing foreign intelligence operatives on U.S. soil. [For example, complete news black-out, of Britiish Counter-Intelligence, MI-6, murdering IRA and other Irish activists on U.S. soil.]

[For background, visit www.skolnicksreport.com, scroll down to extensive series on "Red Chinese Secret Police in the U.S.", and "Wal-Mart and the Red Chinese Secret Police". Also, "Coca-Cola, CIA, and t he Courts".]

Also granted immunity by the Federal authorities, including the U.S. Justice Department, are U.S. Bankruptcy Judges and other such officials who have actual or reputed links to the American CIA, such as William A. Brandt, Jr., a take-over expert wh o at one time put himself in as headman of some fifteen Bankrupt firms, including a gold smelting firm formerly operated by the traditional mafia. According to documents obtained by Freedom of Information Request, Brandt was trained to quietly overseas fold up CIA front firms, called proprietaries, when they no longer were needed.

Chicago Bankruptcy Judge Robert E. Ginsberg had an apparent CIA background. He was a chief assistant to Securities and Exchange Commission boss William Casey who went on to head the American CIA in the Reagan Administration..

When Judge Ginsberg was facing possible Federal Criminal Indictment for various corruption, he was permitted to be quietly defrocked as a Judge and resign and disappear from the scene.

Question: HOW MANY OF THE BANKRUPTCY JUDGES, COURT OFFICIALS, ATTORNEYS, AND CLERKS IN YOUR DISTRICT BELONG IN PRISON? Let us know.

More coming....Stay tuned.

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ABOUT SHERMAN SKOLNICK

Sherman Skolnick (July 13, 1930 – May 21, 2006) was a Chicago-based activist.

At the age of six, Skolnick was paralyzed by polio, and he used a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

Skolnick was founder and chairman of the Citizens Committee to Clean Up the Courts, which he started in 1963. He used the local press to distribute his reports, later establishing a telephone hotline, Public-access television show on cable TV, and a web site.

Skolnick's investigations caused the resignation of two Illinois Supreme Court justices, Roy J. Solfisburg Jr. and Ray Klingbiel, who, as Skolnick reported, had accepted bribes of stock from a defendant in a case on which they ruled. The scandal catapulted John Paul Stevens, special counsel to an investigating commission, to fame as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2001, the story became the subject of a book, Illinois Justice, by Kenneth A. Manaster.

Towards the end of his life, Skolnick served as co-host with Lenny Bloom for a Canadian radio show named "Cloak & Dagger." The show was taken off the airwaves, despite very high market ratings, following a controversial interview with former German Defense Minister Andreas von Bülow, in which Von Bulow claimed that the terrorist September 11, 2001 attacks were an inside job. Cloak & Dagger then became an internet podcast, which subsequently relocated to a German web server due to relentless hacking attacks.

At the end of every radio broadcast, Skolnick would sign off with the following statement: "To Hell with the Queen of England!"

Skolnick's final written works include an 81-part series entitled "The Overthrow of the American Republic," and a 16-part series entitled "Coca-Cola, the CIA, and the Courts." On radio podcast with Lenny Bloom, much commentary was devoted to CIA drug dealing, the "9-11 Truth Movement," and also a belief that the Jesuit Order, through co-optation of the Vatican, controls world events. His material is generally un-copyrighted. Other major collaborators with Skolnick and Bloom include Webster Tarpley, Stew Webb, Tom Heneghan, Eric Jon Phelps, and Ralph Schoenman.

The several subjects detailed above represent only the tip of the iceberg for Skolnick's wide area of expertise. Each article and podcast which Skolnick participated in contained many fascinating details covering a wide range of topics, overlooked by popular culture. He was, in his own words (usually attributed by Skolnick towards his radio guests), "a treasury of wisdom and knowledge." However, a criticism would be that he often made extraordinary claims without citing a source or reference.

Skolnick frequently referred to the mainstream media as "the liars and whores of the oil-soaked, spy-riddled monopoly press." After his death in 2006, Skolnick leaves behind a number of like-minded admirers as well as critics.

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