Court corruption is flourishing across the US and it is rarely truly reported on.  And when it is, the ARDC or Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission makes a regular habit of going after the attorneys that expose it, rather than those who partake of attorney criminal enterprises.

Attorneys Ken Ditkowsky, Joanne Denison and Lanre Amu are part of the honest attorneys who decried corruption in the courts and the ARDC went right after them and suspended their licenses, when in fact, the attorneys and criminals in the court system were never investigated or disciplined in any manner.

Ken Ditkowsky and Joanne Denison wrote for a blog, www.marygsykes.com when their client, an elderly 90 year old woman who was competent was targeted in a corrupt guardianship case.  No hearing was ever conducted as to her competency, and $900,000 in valuable coins were looted from an estate and a home worth easily $800k was sold for pennies on the dollar. When the corruption was reported on the blog, the attorneys involved in the corruption--Cynthia Farenga, Adam Stern and Peter Schmeidel, were never investigated, but the ARDC went right after the law licenses of Ditkowsky and Denison and brought false charges against them that they lied about the guardianship proceedings. and blogging about corruption in the courts was an immediate danger to the public.  However, in the end, Mary Sykes estate was looted, her home sold and she was place in a string of nursing homes where she did not want to be and then finally, when the money ran out she was narcotized to death.  This is not uncommon but the ARDC refuses to investigate these cases and de license the crooked attorneys involved. Instead it routinely delicenses honest attorneys who speak out publicly and on blogs about corruption.

Lanre Amu was an honest attorney representing the middle and lower class.  He noticed in one of his cases that Judge Quinn was always making rulings in favor of opposing counsel even when the rulings were clearly contrary to well established law.  Then he found out that opposing counsel's law firm had a partner that was the brother of Judge Quinn.  To make matters worse, it turns out that Judge Quinn was sitting on the board of a hospital and her brother's firm was defending their medical malpractice cases.  In the end, Judge Quinn had to resign from the board and apologize.  However, for revealing all this corruption publicly and complaining about opposing counsel and the judge, Lanre Amu was suspended for years and the ARDC refuses to reinstate him.

The citizens of Illinois deserve better.  We are asking everyone to sign this Petition to reinstate these honest attorneys and we will present this Petition to Governor Pritzker and ask that the ARDC be investigated and an audit be done on these cases and to reinstate these attorneys and remove all attorneys and the head of the ARDC--Jerome Larkin for--repeatedly covering up for criminal attorneys and that Ditkowsky, Denison and Amu be immediately reinstated to the practice of law.

Corruption in the courts cannot and must not continue.  The ARDC must not be allowed to dismiss valid citizen complaints while covering up the criminal actions of attorneys and letting them practice law while fleecing the public.

Please sign this petition to stop the corruption at the Illinois ARDC and to immediately audit and reinstate these honest attorneys.

Illinois must allow all its attorneys to blog freely about corruption in the courts and to keep them honest and just.

Please sign the petition now!  Demand your rights as citizens to freely read the truth from honest attorneys about any and all corruption occurring in the court system.