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      <p>Skolnick 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 Skolnick, 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. Daley. He got into office because the one slated by the
Democrats for mayor, Clarence Wagner, 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, Daley died -- 24 hours after he was administered an
adulterated swine flu shot. Daley, and Otto Kerner, jr., ran a
private "nuthouse" near Aurora [Illinois]. Kerner, as local
county judge, was in charge of the "lunatic docket." Political
victims sometimes ended up getting plundered this way. Kerner
went on to become Illinois Governor and later, federal appeals
judge. (Our work [i.e. CCCC], by the way, sent Kerner to jail for
bribery -- highest ranking such federal judicial jailbird in
history.)</p>
      <p>Daley's son Richie sat in the state legislature specializing,
naturally, in mental health laws -- to favor his family asylum.
Richie 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 Daleys pushed into
service a pliable nurse who helped shove a paper under Quinn's
nose. (The Daleys had a supply of such medical malefactors from
their private padded-cell factory [i.e. the asylum in Aurora].)
Thus signed over to the Daley family was some $300000, with
Richie's brother Michael 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 Harold Washington was murdered in '87 with a
poisoned cup of coffee, uh -- who covered it up? Why, naturally,
State's Attorney Richie Daley. Thus "snuffed out" was Chicago's
first black mayor.</p>
      <p>And so, father like son, Richie became mayor by murder. He
carried over police superintendent LeRoy Martin. And, with Martin
and Daley, 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 *<ent type='GPE'>Milwaukee</ent>*
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, Richie Daley. Instead, the crooked federals framed
two "collectors" for City Hall: Richard R. <ent type='PERSON'>Reynolds</ent>, sr., a
veteran cop, and his sidekick, Leonard Kerr(?).</p>
      <p>Chicago federal trial judge Wayne Anderson is in a position to
know the truth. That could put Richie [Daley] 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, Richie's wife is money hungry. "Why can't you make
really *big* loot?! -- like brother Bill, running the dope and
money laundering Amalgamated Bank, huh?" Richie'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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