09282010 - August court order finally signed - Immediate payment of property settlement due to me - Divorce Case - CAUSE NO: 64D01-0708-DR-7804/Porter County Superior Court, Valparaiso IN

Also See:

Faxes to Porter County Judges - Magistrate Johnson's refusal to sign August court order [Sept. 22, 2010]

http://abbiandbaileyfromtheheart.blogspot.com/2010/09/faxes-to-porter-county-judges.html



After my September 22nd FAX to each of the Porter County judges, the August 19th court order, granting me immediate distribution of my property settlement, was signed.

It is unclear which judge originally signed the order, as the judge's signature was partially whited out and Judge Roger Bradford's [Johnson's boss] rubber stamp was affixed over the original judge's signature.

This court order was never upheld. I never received immediate distribution of my property settlement and I was put out on the street without a penny on October 7th [during the illegal police entry].

09282010 - August court order finally signed - Immediate payment of property settlement due to me - Divorce Case - CAUSE NO: 64D01-0708-DR-7804/Porter County Superior Court, Valparaiso IN

After my September 22nd FAX to each of the Porter County judges, the August 19th court order, granting me immediate distribution of my property settlement, was signed.

It is unclear which judge originally signed the order, as the judge's signature was partially whited out and Judge Roger Bradford's [Johnson's boss] rubber stamp was affixed over the original judge's signature.








This court order was never upheld. I never received immediate distribution of my property settlement and I was put out on the street without a penny on October 7th [during the illegal police entry].

09272010 - News Article - Felons made $4.6 million off Lake County contracts - ROBERT CANTRELL

Felons made $4.6 million off Lake County contracts
NWI Times
Sep 27, 2010
nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/felons-made-million-off-lake-county-contracts/article_1e89676e-aa7f-5864-8879-c2fff8e1814b.html
CROWN POINT | Lake County's penchant for public corruption has not been confined to elected officials during the first decade of the millennium.

A Times investigation of county spending shows at least three county contractors -- who collectively earned more than $4.6 million from the county government between 2000 and 2009 -- went off the legal rails, too.

Peter Benjamin never was charged with breaking the law in his elected careers as county assessor and auditor. But he did run afoul of the law as a consultant hired by the Lake County Council in the late 1990s to help sue the state in a dispute regarding property tax distributions to local government.

Benjamin pleaded guilty in 2003 to paying a bribe -- cash and a suite of dining room furniture -- to then-County Council President Troy Montgomery in exchange for Montgomery's role in steering more than $69,000 in public funds to Benjamin's law firm.

In another case, Nancy Fromm, a former Hammond precinct committeewoman, started a business in the early part of the decade called Addiction and Family Services and won a number of lucrative consulting contracts from local government to provide a broad range of counseling services.

Lake County paid her at least $299,500 in consulting fees for providing substance abuse advice to inmates of the sheriff's work-release center. However, county officials dropped Fromm as a vendor in 2007 after she pleaded guilty to federal obstruction of justice and tax evasion charges and became a government witness against Robert Cantrell, a political power broker and her former business partner.

Fromm later admitted as part of corruption probe by the U.S. attorney's office that she won exclusive contracts from courts in Hammond, East Chicago, Schererville, Hobart, Gary, Lake Station, Whiting, Lowell and Crown Point thanks to Cantrell's political connections. Federal authorities never alleged Fromm's county government work was illegal. She was sentenced to probation.

Fromm said last year she was "smitten by the elixir of cash."

Cantrell, convicted of taking kickbacks from another local government body, and for insurance and tax fraud, is serving a federal prison term.

In another matter, Lake County officials paid Roosevelt Powell at least $4.2 million as their private tax collector for pursuing delinquent debt from 2000 until 2006 -- when the county severed his contract following a federal fraud indictment alleging he used his job illegally.

A federal jury later convicted Powell of illegally erasing back taxes on an abandoned Gary supermarket as part of a deal to enrich himself, former County Councilman Will Smith Jr. and former Gary attorney Willie Harris. All three were imprisoned.

09222010 - Email to Reporter Jerry Davich - Investigation of Magistrate Johnson/My Complaint Filed With Indiana Judiciary Commission 03262010

From:	Renee' <sur5er1998@aol.com>
To:	jdavich <jdavich@post-tribune.com>
Subject:	Investigation of Magistrate Johnson
Date:	Wed, Sep 22, 2010 3:23 pm

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Jerry,

A friend suggested that I contact you. Are you covering the judiciary commission's investigation of Magistrate Johnson? I am one of the complainants ;) I have gone to the county judges with info and I have also filed formal complaints against Johnson with the Judiciary Commission.  I would really like to talk to you. What is happening over at the Valpo court involves more than Johnson just failing to issue decisions in cases. I will be mailing you what I recently sent the county judges regarding Johnson.

Renee' Harrington
219-508-2321

Silence: the number one killer of victims of officer involved domestic violence.

http://michiganoidv.blogspot.com/

09222010 - Faxes to Porter County Judges - Magistrate Johnson's refusal to sign August court order - Immediate distribution of property settlement - Retaliation for having reported Johnson to Judiciary Commission? Divorce Case - CAUSE NO: 64D01-0708-DR-7804/Porter County Superior Court, Valparaiso IN

Magistrate Johnson had failed to sign the order granting me immediate distribution of my property settlement [from August 19, 2010 hearing]. Without that order, I would be homeless and penniless on October 7th.

I faxed the attached letter and documents [see below] to all six county judges [Judge Alexa; Judge Bradford; Judge Chidester; Judge Harper; Judge Jent; Judge Thode]. I requested that one of the judges step in and sign the order.

In response to my fax, a judge did sign the order [see below]. However, it is unclear as to which judge stepped in, as their signature was partially whited-out and Judge Bradford's rubber stamp was placed over it. Judge Bradford was Magistrate Johnson's boss.

I do not know why Johnson would not sign the order, or why he would want me to be left homeless and penniless.

I think this siutation sheds light onto the possibilty that Magistrate Johnson  may have played a role  in the illegal police entry into my home. Portage Police Officers stated that they had been told to criminally enforce the August 6th settlement order [for me to vacate the marital home w/o settlement funds].

Who was the person who told the officers to criminally enforce the August 6th order / illegally enter my home? Could that person who ordered the criminal enforcement of the order been Johnson?  Would that explain Johnson not wanting to sign the August 19th order....Because he saw no need for it, as he may have already planned the criminal execution of the August 6th order?

Perhaps this was Magistrate Johnson's way of getting even with me for having reported him to the Indiana Judiciary Commission. It appeared to me that Johnson was out for blood....And there was no one protecting me from his wrath.

To the best of my knowledge, the Porter County judges did not forward this FAX to the Indiana Judiciary Commission [Johnson was under investigation at the time], or report Johnson's possible retaliation against a whistle blower to the proper authorities.

After my September 22nd FAX to each of the Porter County judges, the August 19th court order, granting me immediate distribution of my property settlement, was signed.

It is unclear which judge originally signed the order, as the judge's signature was partially whited out and Judge Roger Bradford's [Johnson's boss] rubber stamp was affixed over the original judge's signature.








This court order was never upheld. I never received immediate distribution of my property settlement and I was put out on the street without a penny on October 7th [during the illegal police entry].