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<p><ent type = 'person'>Skolnick</ent> COMMENTARY #018
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<p>[CfD Editor -- I neither necessarily believe nor disbelieve 
either all or portions of the following.]</p>

<p>[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.]</p>

<p>Hi! Sherman <ent type = 'person'>Skolnick</ent>, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts 
[CCCC], 9800 South Oglesby.</p>

<p>Chicago's City Hall is an interesting study in power. It is even 
considered important by those not *in* the "Windy City" [i.e. 
Chicago].</p>

<p>Starting in 1955, the city's strong man for 21 years was Richard 
J. <ent type = 'person'>Daley</ent>. He got into office because the one slated by the 
Democrats for mayor, <ent type = 'person'>Clarence Wagner</ent>, was assassinated.</p>

<p>You probably know there is no real G.O.P. [i.e. Republican party] 
in this town. So usually, if the Democrats select you to run... 
well, you're in.</p>

<p>In 1976, <ent type = 'person'>Daley</ent> died -- 24 hours after he was administered an 
adulterated swine flu shot. <ent type = 'person'>Daley</ent>, and Otto <ent type = 'person'>Kerner</ent>, jr., ran a 
private "nuthouse" near Aurora [Illinois]. <ent type = 'person'>Kerner</ent>, as local 
county judge, was in charge of the "lunatic docket." Political 
victims sometimes ended up getting plundered this way. <ent type = 'person'>Kerner</ent> 
went on to become Illinois Governor and later, federal appeals 
judge. (Our work [i.e. CCCC], by the way, sent <ent type = 'person'>Kerner</ent> to jail for 
bribery -- highest ranking such federal judicial <ent type = 'person'>jailbird</ent> in 
history.)</p>

<p><ent type = 'person'>Daley</ent>'s son <ent type = 'person'>Richie</ent> sat in the state legislature specializing, 
naturally, in mental health laws -- to favor his family asylum. 
<ent type = 'person'>Richie</ent> later became Cook County State's Attorney. [Chicago is in 
Cook County.] In that role, he covered up massive probate fraud.</p>

<p>Example: Former city fire commissioner Quinn was laying in the 
hospital, "bombed out." [i.e. very drunk] The <ent type = 'person'>Daley</ent>s pushed into 
service a pliable nurse who helped shove a paper under Quinn's 
nose. (The <ent type = 'person'>Daley</ent>s had a supply of such medical malefactors from 
their private padded-cell factory [i.e. the asylum in Aurora].) 
Thus signed over to the <ent type = 'person'>Daley</ent> family was some $300,000, with 
<ent type = 'person'>Richie</ent>'s brother <ent type = 'person'>Michael</ent> named as probate executor. Some cousins, 
however, got gypped [i.e. they were "cheated"] and told a court 
reformer all the sordid details.</p>

<p>When maverick mayor <ent type = 'person'>Harold Washington</ent> was murdered in '87 with a 
poisoned cup of coffee, uh -- who covered it up? Why, naturally, 
State's Attorney <ent type = 'person'>Richie</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Daley</ent>. Thus "snuffed out" was Chicago's 
first black mayor.</p>

<p>And so, father like son, <ent type = 'person'>Richie</ent> became mayor by murder. He 
carried over police superintendent <ent type = 'person'>LeRoy <ent type = 'person'>Martin</ent></ent>. And, with <ent type = 'person'>Martin</ent> 
and <ent type = 'person'>Daley</ent>, Chicago became an open city for dope. Police cars even 
gave safe escort to whole truckloads of dope on the way to a 
police-protected warehouse. Dope money laundries included car 
washes, taverns, and certain auto repair shops.</p>

<p>About 1992, a special federal grand jury began "sniffing around." 
Unable to feel safe *here*, the grand jury met in *Milwaukee* 
instead! In on the dirty business, local federal officials 
stopped the works. Why? Well, that was going too far. They were 
about to indict the former police superintendent *and* his co- 
conspirator, <ent type = 'person'>Richie</ent> <ent type = 'person'>Daley</ent>. Instead, the crooked federals framed 
two "collectors" for City Hall: Richard R. Reynolds, sr., a 
veteran cop, and his sidekick, <ent type = 'person'>Leonard Kerr</ent>(?).</p>

<p>Chicago federal trial judge <ent type = 'person'>Wayne Anderson</ent> is in a position to 
know the truth. That could put <ent type = 'person'>Richie</ent> [<ent type = 'person'>Daley</ent>] in prison. *But* -- 
if the judge even thinks, however, of doing the right thing... 
well, this town might have another unsolved political 
assassination -- like *him*!</p>

<p>Meanwhile, <ent type = 'person'>Richie</ent>'s wife is money hungry. "Why can't you make 
really *big* loot?! -- like brother <ent type = 'person'>Bill</ent>, running the dope and 
money laundering Amalgamated Bank, huh?" <ent type = 'person'>Richie</ent>'s wife insists 
[that] he not run for re-election in 1995.</p>

<p>So. Do you think this all is just true of Chicago? Wrong. Other 
big cities are about the same.</p>

<p>In Chicago, see us on cable tv, channel 21, 9 pm [cst] most 
Monday evenings.</p>

<p>Play it again: The Crooked Chief Federal Appeals Judge Here. 
(312) 731-1505.</p>

<p>New message Friday; we change it several times a week.</p>

<p>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, and the news media. On 24 hours a day.

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