Skolnick COMMENTARY #004 ========================

[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve either all or portions of the following.]

[The following is a transcript of a recorded phone message put out by a group in Chicago called "Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts." (312) 731-1100 and (312) 731-1505.]

Hi! Sherman Skolnik, Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 Oglesby.

In Chicago, getting hotter and hotter is a scandal involving the federal prosecutors office here.

A federal grand jury is considering charges against assistant federal prosecutor William R. Hogan(?), jr. and others. According to testimony already brought out in related matters in court, Hogan procured perjured testimony in his prosecution of the El Rukn dope and murder gang. As a result, several federal judges have already put back on the street some of these convicted terrorists!

These [unclear], dopers and killers want to be restored to their position in the gang. Result? Various murders. Also, federal grand jury witnesses are being blown away. Such as? On Christmas Eve, '93, a businessman was assassinated on the corner of 87th and Stony Island, on the south side. The area is not the usual turf of the El Rukns, but the El Rukns have let it be known that anyone who witnessed the hit will be likewise dead.

At the time, the press took no interest in the murder of this potential key witness. The federal authorities are not protecting the federal grand jury witnesses. Why? Well, one reason is the new U.S. attorney here wants the matter restricted to perjury.

Yet Hogan and others in the office also reportedly took bribes not to prosecute criminals in other cases. As known to the Justice Department, there is a ring of some 6 lawyers and non-lawyers who have bribed and blackmailed federal prosecutors here. Such as in the criminal case against officers and others of American Heritage savings and loan. Corruptly let go was Christian Henning(?) jr., nephew of Paul Marchinkas(?) -- head of the Vatican Bank and [alleged] mafia money-washer.

Among those in the ring are reportedly known fixers such as Edward J. Lasniak(?) and Victor Katchitory(?). Failure to protect federal grand jury witnesses is not new. As we pointed out in a similar case in the federal district court here, 41 federal grand jury witnesses were murdered in 1991 and 1992 during the special federal grand jury hearing charges of theft of high technology by top officials in the Reagan and Bush administrations. Known as the Inslaw affair, it was covered up by former federal district judge Nicholas Bowa(?), a defendant in the civil suit charged with obstructing justice. High level treason was committed in selling the technology to sworn enemies of the United States.

In the Inslaw case, many of the grand jury witnesses were murdered -- get this -- by an FBI agent working for Bowa and identified, by us, in court.

In the Hogan affair, some suspect Chicago police are being blackmailed by corrupt federal officials here to drag their feet in investigating the murder of the federal grand jury witnesses. The Hogan mess has the potential of wrecking the entire federal bureaucracy here, implicating corrupt federal judges here, IRS and customs officials and federal prosecutors -- all reportedly involved in an apparatus known as the "Dope Underground" involving runaway corruption not limited to narcotics. [CfD -- It may well be that history is repeating itself here: Just as federal prohibition laws during the 1920s led to widespread institutional corruption, so too the so-called "war on drugs" seemingly has given us similar side-effects.]

Among those that should be facing indictments should be Hogan's supervisors, including Thomas [unclear], Joan Stafford(?), and former chief federal prosecutor himself Fred Boreman(?) -- as well as top IRS officials here who are secret partners in various criminal enterprises.

Some indictments are expected on or about January 20th.

In Chicago, see us on cable TV, channel 21, 9 pm every Monday evening in January.

Play it again: Bagmen and Fixers. [312] 731-1505. New message Monday; we change it several times a week. Donations appreciated. Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 9800 South Oglesby, Chicago, [Illinois] 60617. For the latest on courts, banks, espionage agencies, political assassinations...