UAADV, IFCAA Announcement

IFCAA Announces Moms Lawfully Fighting for Their Children Labeled Threats to Judges and Terrorists

CHICAGO – May 21, 2007 – Illinois Family Court Accountability Advocates (IFCAA) co-founders, Dr. Sheila Mannix, and Ms. Karyn Mehringer, announce that in response to subpoenas issued to Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart and Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran material evidence has been obtained that Cook County Judge Karen G. Shields initiated an apparently criminally fraudulent police report against three IFCAA co-members on August 16, 2006.

Judge Shields, the alleged daughter of convicted Operation Greylord ex-judge, David Shields, has apparently acted in direct violation of IFCAA co-members’ federally-protected rights to association, peacefully assemble, and petition the government for redress of grievances as well as in direct violation of the Illinois Criminal Code.

Included in the report are co-founders, Dr. Mannix and Ms. Mehringer, and co-member, Marie Szczypta. Allegations include “intimidation of a public official” and “being in restricted areas of the courthouse” without dates or times of the alleged acts. The police report reads that Judge Shields reported a “reasonable apprehension of future bodily harm” by the IFCAA co-members or “another unknown IFCAA associate.”

Judge Shields’ action was apparently in direct retaliation for a pleading filed by Ms. Mehringer in good faith and just cause warranted in law and in fact entitled, “Emergency Motion for Leave to File Instanter the Attached Emergency Motion for Judicial Admission or Denial by Judge Karen G. Shields Regarding Knowledge of and/or Participation in Alleged Criminal Acts Within and Across State Lines by Judges in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois and Other Relief Instanter,” which accompanying Second Affidavit In Support Of attached five documents obtained from previously-reported organized crime informants which indicate the alleged involvement of Judge Shields with organized crime. The pleading was filed and served upon Judge Shields on August 15, 2006 for presentation to the court on August 17, 2006. On the 17th, Judge Shields prohibitted Ms. Mehringer from entering the courtroom. The denial order was handed to Ms. Mehringer by a Cook County Sheriff's deputy in the hallway.

Dr. Mannix presented a similar pleading before Judge James G. Donegan on August 16, 2006 which Judge Donegan denied (1) without authority or jurisdiction to enter orders in the matter since 9-29-05, (2) without due process of law, and (3) with documented fraud upon the court despite a material witness with material evidence present in court to give direct testimony in support of Dr. Mannix’s factual allegations of Judge Donegan’s involvement with organized crime.

Further, Judge Shields and Judge Donegan are named defendants in Dr. Mannix’s federal injunction action lawfully served upon the judges by Ms. Mehringer on December 28, 2005. The defendant-judges are being represented by the Illinois Attorney General. The action, currently before the Seventh Circuit Appellate Court, was dismissed by trial Judge Virginia M. Kendall, a past Assistant US Attorney in Chicago whose duties as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division included coordinator of the Coalition Against Child Exploitation and who was newly-appointed to the federal bench by President Bush in December 2005.

Judge Shields actions of August 16, 2006 allegedly violate the Illinois Criminal Code of 1961 including but not limited to Section 26: Disorderly Conduct, specifically, 720 ILCS 5/26-1(a)(4), “transmits or causes to be transmitted in any manner to any peace officer, public officer or public employee a report to the effect that an offense will be committed, is being committed, or has been committed, knowing at the time of such transmission that there is no reasonable ground for believing that such an offense will be committed, is being committed, or has been committed.”

The apparent false report included a narrative by Cook County Sheriff’s Police (CCSP) Detective Jason Moran [Badge No. 952] who interrogated Ms. Mehringer at her home on the evening of August 17, 2006 along with CCSP Detective Moody [Badge No. 951] with regard to Judge Shields allegations that Ms. Mehringer was in restricted areas of the Daley Center courthouse that day. Ms. Mehringer, who has a masters degree in forensic psychology and teaches students who are aspiring to become police offices, asked what evidence the officers had to substantiate the allegations. They had none. Ms. Mehringer stated that if they were not there to arrest her then they should stop the harassment of her in retaliation for her pleading before Judge Shields that day and leave. The detectives refused.

During the ongoing harassment of Ms. Mehringer at her home by the CCSP detectives, Ms. Mehringer was able to alert Dr. Mannix that she needed help. Dr. Mannix immediately contacted one of two licensed Private Investigators engaged by IFCAA in anticipation of criminal judicial retaliation in response to IFCAA taking on the corruption in the Cook County family court. PI Rick Grove intervened.

Telephone records indicate that Grove spoke with Moran for no less than six minutes. When Grove informed Moran that Ms. Mehringer was under his surveillance and that of his colleague, Carlos Rodriguez, that day, Moran hung up on Grove. Telephone records indicate that Grove called back multiple times but Moran prevented Ms. Mehringer from answering her phone. Ms. Mehringer reports that Moran and Moody refused to leave her home and continued their harassment of her with the threat with intent to intimidate her that what Ms. Mehringer was doing could be seen as a threat to Judge Shields.

Ms. Meringher responded that it was Judge Shields who was criminally harassing and threatening her and that she had tried to get away from Judge Shields for a year but could not. Court records document that Judges Jacobius, Murphy, and Katz denied Ms. Mehringer’s pleadings trying to free herself from the unlawful acts of Judge Shields against her children and herself that have resulted in irrefutable irreparable physical, mental, emotional, psychological, and financial harm to the children and their mom as documented in the record.

Nowhere in CCSP Detective Moran’s report did he record his six-minute conversation with Private Investigator Grove.

Moran issued allegedly fraudulent “Critical Reach Bulletins” against the three IFCAA co-members which were disseminated widely and he disseminated the alleged fraudulent information to the Illinois Statewide Terrorism Intelligence Center. IFCAA co-members’ phones and computers have allegedly been unlawfully monitored since that time.

The actions of Moran allegedly violate the Illinois Criminal Code of 1961 including but not limited to Section 12-6: Intimidation, Section 33-3 Official Misconduct, and Section 32-4(a): Harassment of Witness.

Note that it has been previously reported and entered into the court record that Moran appeared at Dr. Mannix’s last hearing before Judge Donegan on February 23, 2007 during which Mannix’s ex-husband rendered testimony meeting the elements of felony perjury and a two-year order of protection was entered against Mannix. Donegan died the following weekend.

Dr. Mannix comments, “If the actions of IFCAA co-members are without merit, then why have multiple federal and state court agents committed documented fraud pursuant to the manifest weight of evidence in multiple state and federal court records? If the actions of IFCAA co-members are without merit, then why have Cook County judges recused themselves or taken early retirement from the bench in response to these actions, for example, Judges Nudelman, McNamara, Disko, and Henry between June and December 2006?”

Mannix and Mehringer met with the newly-assigned Assistant Deputy Chief William Nolan of the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in the Daley Center on Friday morning, May 18, 2007, to discuss the ongoing harassment of IFCAA co-members by Cook County Sheriff’s deputies under his authority. Nolan stated that the Cook County Sheriff’s first responsibility is the protection of the judges and their second responsibility is the protection of the citizenry.

The statement begs the following question which exposes the crisis in family courts across the nation: Who protects the nation’s citizens victimized by the criminal acts of corrupt judges and other state court agents, especially acts that have and are irreparably harming our children?

In Illinois, the Attorney General Lisa Madigan is defending them and Cook County State’s Attorney Richard Devine and Lake County State’s Attorney Michael Waller are prosecuting their victims. On March 26, 2007, IFCAA reported, “Since June 2006, reports from across the country including the targeted states of Utah, Arizona, and Illinois indicate that FBI investigations are repeatedly stopped at the doorsteps of US Attorneys’ offices.”

Cook County court records document that the irreparable harm to children as a direct result of unlawful and coercive orders entered by judges in the Daley Center include but are not limited to death by a gunshot to the head, self-mutilation, near death by drug overdose, forced medicating, run away attempts, removal from the protective parent, and court-sanctioned physical, mental, emotional, and psychological abuse of the children.

Unlawful orders include but are not limited to the orders of Judges Evans, Jacobius, Shields, Katz, Santiago, Mathien, Vega, Hamilton, recently deceased Donegan, and Martin who has replaced Donegan.

Nolan stated that as long as Mannix and Mehringer “act like ladies” there should not be any problems.

Dr. Mannix responds herein to the highly sexually-discriminatory remark by Assistant Deputy Chief Nolan with a quote from her Seventh Circuit pleading filed on July 24, 2006 entitled, “Plaintiff-Appellant’s Emergency Motion for Clarification of the Orders of July 12, 2006 and July 17, 2006, the Stance on Ex Parte Communications, and the Docketing Procedures of the Seventh Circuit Court Instanter,” Page 5, Paragraph 24, which can be found in the record of Case Nos. 06-2120 and/or 06-1257, and which details with material evidence allegedly fraudulent acts between the federal trial and reviewing courts in an alleged attempt to cover up unlawful state court interference in Dr. Mannix and her children’s federally-protected parenting rights, family rights, property rights, freedom from abuse rights, liberty interests and constitutional rights to equal access to justice and due process of law by the fabrication of false evidence, the suppression of critical evidence, and the harming, defaming, and criminalization of Dr. Mannix and her children as well as court-sanctioned impoverishment resulting in the loss of over one million dollars.

Dr. Mannix’s statement was made to the male clerks of the Seven Circuit Federal Appellate Court after they directly witnessed the docketing fraud she pointed out to them on their own internal computer system not available to the public:

“Is there no man among you?”

Resources:
www.dcrally2007.com; www.courageouskids.net; www.judgesabovethelaw.com; www.clr.org; www.jail4judges.org; www.floridajail4judges.org; www.sunshinecoalition.blogspot.com; www.floridasunshinecoalition.blogspot.com; www.gyropower.com; www.montessoripeaceschool.org

Past Press Releases Include:
May 31, 2006, June 19, 2006, July 19, 2006, August 18, 2006, August 22, 2006, August 23, 2006, February 1, 2007, February 6, 2007, March 26, 2007, April 4, 2007, April 21, 2007, and April 26, 2007.

Contacts:
Karyn Mehringer, MA, (708)323-6040 karyn1005@aol.com This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it.

Sheila A. Mannix, PhD, (847)971-6679 smannix88@sbcglobal.net This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

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