which one is his wife?
tired, a very tuff day, Immigration letting her know, her life is not even worth spit
Schwantz takes charge of malarkey, public dishonesty and deception
.“Patent Malarkey”: Public Dishonesty and Deception:
It seemed like Jerry Bratcher had it made. As chief of Police, his salary was $80,000 a year, and he oversaw an 80-man department ranked as one of the best in the country. He had set up lucrative outside consulting businesses analyzing other suburban police departments. And the taxpayers were paying for his drinks, lunches and dinners. No one would question any of it since he had also become a consultant to Micro Aseptic—run by the three village trustees who also ran the police and fire committee. That, together with his strong personal relationship with Mayor Rita Mullins, compromised any real oversight of the Palatine Police Department by the village government. It was all carefully hidden from the taxpayers in a maze of governmental paper buttressed by a village government who fought any citizen attempt to access these financial records.
Jerry Bratcher had created his own Feudal kingdom in Palatine.
Sure, there were a few underlying problems. His consulting and Micro Aseptic sales both depended heavily on the the goodwill of other suburban chiefs. So he had to constantlystroke them while at the same time hiding from them the true nature and extent of his business dealings and how they might affect the other chiefs. While bragging about the academic achievements of his men, he failed to mention he hired five or six chief’s kids — including his own. He also failed to mention he lost $125,000 in an Ponzi scheme which traded commodities.
Bratcher’s kingdom rested on a fragile foundation. He became a prisoner of his own propaganda. He had to constantly exaggerate and puff his own accomplishments and those of his police force to keep his outside business interests rolling. Thus, Bratcher pushed membership in the Northwest Police Academy (NWPA), argued for CALEA accreditation, and promoted the use of the Northern Illinois Police Crime Lab (NIPCL). He couldn’t stop making his sales pitch.
Bratcher also became a prisoner of his own sales pitch.
Bratcher ingratiated himself with his fellow chiefs and promoted his business interests at the same time. The chiefs provided a potential market of more than 100 suburban police forces to which he could offer his consulting services or sell his line of Micro Aseptic products, which could provide everything for a police department from soap to special shoes. Bratcher founded the NWPA, a forum which enhanced the international reputation of the Palatine Force and himself. He later used the academy to branch out into politics endorsing his friend Jack O’Malley. Indeed, Bratcher had employed a full-time PR person for his small-time Police Department. Additionally, the sons of various police chiefs were employed by the Palatine Police Department.
It was working. Eventually, Good Housekeeping magazine would cite the Palatine Police Department as one of the 10 best in the nation. On paper, Bratcher had a superior department. Palatine was not just the normal, under-equipped suburban police force. Many chiefs told us the crime at Brown’s Chicken and Pasta on January 8, 1993 was a terrible tragedy. But “thank God it happened in Palatine.” They knew Bratcher worked with CALEA, which certified suburban police departments, but were unaware that his CALEA connection was at the heart of the Good Housekeeping ranking.
Jerry Bratcher had carefully constructed a house of cards. It was held together by the spiderweb of personal relationships he had built with other chiefs and with the village government. An unsuspecting media and citizenry stood by, never noticing the personal stakes Bratcher had invested with the mayor, village board, and state’s attorney’s office. No one ever questioned any of them about their objectivity or the inevitable conflicts which grew out of these relationships. No one questioned any of them about their non-governmental business. Bratcher was employed as a consultant by three of the village trustees who ran Micro Aseptic.Because of his business relationships with the trustees and his long personal relationship with the mayor, he had effectively neutralized anyone who would be in a position to question his conduct. That connection which James Madison and Thomas Jefferson thought crucial—between the citizens and their elected representatives and “employees”—was crushed. .
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Bratcher also receives payments for services from Micro Aseptic, making at least $5,000 in consulting fees in 1995 alone. Bratcher used his considerable reputation and economic clout to help Micro Aseptic sell products to other police chiefs. In one instance, Bratcher used the NWPA as a platform to introduce Micro Aseptic’s products and services. As he had at other occasions, Bratcher introduced Jack Wagner of Micro Aseptic as an expert in combating blood-borne pathogens. He vouched for Micro Aseptic’s integrity and effectiveness. However, he did not reveal his continuing economic relationship with the company.
At the time, Micro Aseptic was owned and operated by two of Palatine’s trustees: Jack Wagner and Gregory Solberg.Wagner also chairs the public safety committee of the village board, which oversees the Palatine Police Department.The public safety committee sets salaries, approves budgets and monitors the department’s performance. Chief Bratcher’s department—along with the Lincolnwood PD—appeared in a 17-minute “police training” tape, which was essentially an infomercial for Micro Aseptic products. The tape credits the NWPA for help in production. (Note: In 1994, Bratcher served as a paid consultant for Lincolnwood as they searched for a new chief.) This is an apparent violation of Palatine’s ethics ordinance which prohibits, “use of village equipment, material or property for personal ... profit.”
Interestingly, Micro Aseptic was chosen to clean up the crime scene at Brown’s. Wager maintains that the products were provided at no charge as a public service. Skeptics have suggested that it was done for publicity. http://www.ipsn.org/bga1.htm
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. December 2006
Jack Wagner, B.Sc., BPH
Director, Scientific, Technical & Regulatory Affairs
Micro-Scientific Industries Inc
1225 Carnegie St - #101
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008 USA
Telephone: - 1-888-253-2536
FAX: 1-847-454-0837
Email: jwagner@opticide.com .
. http://palatine-jack-wagner.blogspot.com/ .
.This is, just one example, of why Palatine will not allow out side investigations.
This town's corruption has the approval of;
Illinois gov Quinn
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan
Cook County State's Attorney Alvarez
All the Federal judges at the Northern District building
All the chief judges in Cook County
1 or more supreme court justice
about 500 other judges I contacted
the legislative branch in Springfield
Senator Burris
Senator Divine
Obama
every law professor, faculty member of every law school in Illinois
and about 4500 others
.With all of this approval, backing, it's still, up to a person's own integrity, moral belief and convictions to decide, free will to choose. Nobody is twisting any one's arm to be good or bad.
. catch a cop, in a, rape, murder, bribe, dealing drugs, any thing, like I did, report it, only to have a cover up of biblical proportion.
I am sorry to say, no matter how you look at it, .My emails prove USA is a ethically corrupt Village and much larger a whole society. A large element in our society is, above the law. Little hope for a change.
.An entire society can become ethically corrupt. Nazi Germany is a good example of a morally corrupt society.
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/decision/whatisethics.html .
Mayor Schwantz, a use to be NFL player. I wounder if the NFL support or teach this crap?
The newly elected Schwantz, has shown nothing, I wasn't expecting. To me, he looks like, just another elected thug. I always wanted to know what life after foot ball was like. Maybe and likely, his fan club is all for this also, but I ain't. .
accessory to obstruction of justice, a criminal conspericy
I sent him the email (shown below) at election time in November.
By the laws of Illinois, he is a accessory to a criminal conspiracy of obstruction of justice.
He passed judgment on Blogo, can u imagine this?
I provided more evidence to him of major crimes around him, than the FBI on Blogo.
Matt Murphy has looked the other way to the criminal activity I have exposed, which makes him a accessory to a cover up and opens up the doors to what kind of man he is.
Personally, looks like another crooked politician.
I emailed this to Matt Murphy at election time
I would like action taken on the following;
Not limited to; corruption, obstruction, perjury, aiding and abetting, accessory, conspiracy.
That involves Jim Tatooles and possibly his brother (John Tatooles) and the Inverness village board.
That involves, but not limited to; Judge Scotillo, defense lawyers 1 - 4, assistant states attorney Chandra, Andre. Palatine police officer Wenrich, Hunter, rookie on duty at the time of case number 04-c3-30337, and Baker, lets not forget Baker, shift commander, police chief, Palatine Mayor, and Village Board, 1 retired supreme court justice, and appellate judges jj, o'malley, tully, pj, mcnulty.
Just about every other person I came across is protecting Wenrich, the list is longer than you can shake a fist at, I know who they are. I Can go much further. See blogs.
http://jamestatooles.blogspot.com/
http://judgescotillo.blogspot.com/
http://mikemarss.blogspot.com/
http://palatine-dirt.blogspot.com/
The only thing I wanted was the truth told especially, in a court of law, No body I contacted seems interested or seems to care. I care about the truth.
I would suggest some one let scotillo know about this blog with his name on it (if he has not seen it already). He might be a little up set, at me....the only guy that did not lie to his face, in his court or the only guy that has balls to stand up for what his court room is suppose to represent and lacking there of.
Now you all can come and hunt me down.
For some one who is up to his eye balls with corruption, Murphy has a loose mouth
"He failed the test of character. He is beneath the dignity of the state of Illinois. He is no longer worthy to be our governor," said state Sen. Matt Murphy, a Republican.
http://www.freep.com/article/20090130/NEWS15/90130079/1118/rss
“He failed the test of character. He is beneath the dignity of the state of Illinois,” said Senator Matt Murphy, a Republican from Chicago.
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1056662?UserKey=
Few, however, sympathized with the disgraced former governor. "He failed the test of character. He is beneath the dignity of the state of Illinois. He is no longer worthy to be our governor," said Sen. Matt Murphy, a Republican from suburban Chicago.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jan/09013005.html
"He reminded us today in real detail that he is an unusually good liar," state Sen. Matt Murphy said. "We bent over backwards to make sure that this process was fair."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_609414.html?source=rss&feed=7
http://content.usatoday.com/topics/more+articles/People/Athletes/NFL/Matt+Murphy
bunch more here.
Sen. Matt Murphy lets it rip on ethics legislation
State Senator Matt Murphy (R-Palatine) didn't hold anything back last week in calling for Senate President Emil Jones to pass meaningful ethics legislation. The clip below shows Murphy at a press conference, surrounded by somber Democrats like Attorney General Lisa Madigan (daughter of House Speaker Mike Madigan), State Senator Jeff Schoenberg (who shares responsibility for the abhorrent financial mess our state's in as Appropriations committee chairman), Lt. Gov Pat Quinn (who shamelessly helped to elect Blagojevich and now is calling for recall) as well as a couple of others whose faces should have been red for their shamless hypocrisy.
Instead, they appeared colorless when Murphy let it rip. Congrats for giving us real hope for real Republican leadership in the days to come, Senator Murphy!
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From the Murphy for Senate press office Wednesday, Sept 17:
State Senator Matt Murphy has implored Senate leaders, including President Emil Jones (D-Chicago), to immediately return to Springfield to act on the House’s override last week of the governor’s veto of an ethics bill and to restore funding from the cuts Governor Blagojevich made to developmentally disabled and substance abuse services, state parks, and historic places.
“The games being played with real issues by Governor Blagojevich and the Senate President have gone on long enough,” said Murphy. The ethics reforms contained in HB 824 were introduced in the Senate in March of 2007 and Senate Republicans like Murphy have pushed for these critically needed ethics reforms for months on end. HB 824 restricts the campaign dollars constitutional officeholders can accept from businesses with state contracts.
In the past two years as your Senator Matt Murphy has toured or met with the leaders of a variety of sites that serve the developmentally disabled like Clearbrook, Countryside, Little City, Misericordia, and Maryville. As a result of these encounters, Senator Murphy understands how truly well-served our developmentally disabled community is by the not-for-profit entities that care for them. That is why Murphy was outraged at Governor Blagojevich’s recent cuts to the state funding for these types of recipients.
“I am appalled at the extent to which the governor is playing politics with needed funding for the developmentally disabled, our state parks, and historic sites. Make no mistake: our budget is out of balance and needs to be cut, but this is a matter of setting priorities. The Governor cut tens of millions for the developmentally disabled and substance abuse out of an almost $60 billion budget while leaving in a comparable amount of pork spending line items,” said Murphy.
The pork Murphy was referring to includes expenditures similar to the $25,000 that was given to a legislator’s sister to teach dance to four students, money for afterschool programs that the Tribune found rarely provided any services to students, and numerous other questionable expenditures.
Murphy explained he was even more upset when he heard that Jones was meeting with some of his (Senate Democrat) members over the weekend to discuss funding for Senate campaigns while a number of important issues languish. “This is why we have to change the culture of corruption in Springfield and refocus government on public service. As long as these campaign cash fundraising limits are not in place the Governor can continue to rake in the cash under the old rules. Given the questionable track record of the parties involved here when it comes to ethical behavior, I guess this stonewalling should come as a surprise to no one.”
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/09/gop-senator-mat.html
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Senator Matt Murphy of Illinois Set to Ban His Own Blog from Libraries?
Senator Matt Murphy from Illinois, the legislator who has introduced the most restrictive ban on social networking sites in the nation, held a very interesting "live chat" online tonight. It took place at 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the comments on his blog at http://senmattmurphy.blogspot.com/, which is an interesting use of blogging I haven't seen before. There are 69 comments that constitute the discussion, a back-and-forth between Murphy and the commenters.
In the blog post itself, Murphy sounds fairly reasonable and balanced, saying he filed the bill "to raise awareness of the threat predators on these sites pose to our kids" and "to advance a dialogue on how we can minimize this threat." Neither of these reasons really explains why he chose to introduce a full ban on a class of sites he can't even define (nowhere does the legislation explain what is meant by the term), but I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt as I read his responses anyway.
Unfortunately, I got as far as the 12th comment, in which Detective Bob Riordan, who is working with Murphy on this legislation, notes that Blogger is in the list of "top 10 social networking sites."
What site is Murphy's blog on? Blogger. So apparently, Murphy's current bill would ban his own site - where he hosted the "live chat" to discuss banning social networking sites in libraries - from being accessed in libraries, even by adults.
In addition, I got *really* scared by the following statement from the police detective:
"A possible solution to alleviate the problem would be to issue library users a screen name or a PIN number when they initially apply for a library card and monitor the internet content through the predetermined PIN or screen name."
I hope he was failing to articulate a position of filtering based on access level (child versus adult), but that still doesn't justify singling out social networking sites like this and outright banning all children from using them. In fact, I find Murphy's excuse of starting at such a restrictive point in order to "advance a dialogue" troublesome and even irresponsible of an elected official.
Murphy doesn't respond much in the comments, probably because this was a poor format for a chat and it must have been difficult to keep up with the flow. I look forward to hearing how he more clearly and directly responds to the many concerns expressed in the thread. I am particularly anxious to see how he amends his legislation in light of them, especially given that if his current bill is passed, any similar chats he holds in the future would discriminate against school and library users.
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