FILED IN FORMA PAUPERIS (CRC985) PER ORDER DATED OCTOBER 04 2007 AGAINST ANTHONY PELLICANO

                IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES CIVIL DEPARTMENT

JAMES R. SKRZYPEK                          )
JANICE M. SKRZYPEK                         )
                         Plaintiffs                         )
 Vs.                                                           )                                       Case no. BC 379170
ANTHONY PELLICANO                        )
    Individually                                          )
  Defendant                                             )

VERIFIED COMPLAINT FOR CONSPIRACY TO DEFAME AND COMMIT MALICIOUS PROSECUTION AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ABUSE OF PROCESS
     
 NOW COMES, the Plaintiffs, JAMES R. SKRZYPEK and JANICE M. SKRZYPEK, pro se, and complaining of Defendant ANTHONY PELLICANO, individually, and in support thereof, state as follows:
 That Plaintiff, at all times relevant herein JAMES R. SKRZYPEK, (hereinafter referred to as "JAMES"), was a resident and citizen of the County of Cook, State of Illinois.
 That Plaintiff, at all times relevant herein JANICE M. SKRZYPEK,  (hereinafter referred to as "JANICE"), was a resident and citizen of the County of Cook, State of Illinois.
 That at all times relevant hereto, Defendant ANTHONY PELLICANO, (hereinafter referred to as "PELLICANO"), was licensed as a Private Investigator by the State of California, with offices on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California and specialized in forensic audio tape analysis. 

                                                                                   BACKGROUND
     On July 23, 1997, Plaintiffs JAMES and JANICE SKRZYPEK, were charged in a multi-count indictment focusing on the operation of their private security company, Federal Security.  The linchpin of the government's case consisted of three audio tapes that were purportedly recorded during the period of September 21, 1994 to October 19, 1994 by an FBI operative in a putative "sting".  The conversations suggested knowledge and acquiescence in a scheme to pay bribes to certain government officials to ignore billing irregularities in Federal Security's contract with the Chicago Housing Authority.
     The Skrzypeks took the position that the audio tapes had been fabricated. They contended that the purportedly recorded recorded conversations were never occurred, and engaged the services of forensic audio expert Steven Cain, in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.  Cain was provided with copies possessed indicia of over-recording, distinctive edits, and that tape had been produced using multiple different recording devices.

                                                                      MISSING TAPE RECORDERS
     Based on Cain's analysis of the duplicated tapes, the Skrzypeks sought to have the original tapes tested, but the government refused to transport the tapes from Chicago to Cain's laboratory in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.  Thus, Cain transported his testing equipment and staff to Chicago for the purpose of testing the audio tapes, at a cost of $6,000.00.  However, when Cain arrived in Chicago, he was told by the FBI that he could not examine the original tapes and instead was required to make copies of the purported originals and take them back to his laboratory.  Cain's examination of the copies was hampered by the absence of the recording devises, which the FBI was was required to provide pursuant to chain of custody requirements, the terms of the court order and the FBI's own Manual of Administrative and Operational Procedures.
     A court order was scheduled to have the original audio tapes and recording devices tested, but defense counsel advised James to obtain a second expert for the purpose of examining the tapes.
     On or about November 1, 2001, James contacted Pellicano in this regard at his West Hollywood offices, and retained him to test the original government audio tapes.  In the conversation, James related the previous difficulties encountered with the FBI in transporting the tapes to Cain's laboratory outside of Chicago, and suggested that it would be necessary for defense counsel to obtain a court order to have the tapes sent to Los Angeles office.  Pellicano told James that tapes are routinely brought to his office by the FBI and that, "I do more tapes for them than Quantico, [Virginia]."

                                                                      PELLICANO ADMISSIONS
 Several weeks later, Pellicano telephoned James and stated that, "he had been able to get the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office to send the tapes to my office."  At the conclusion of that call, Pellicano abruptly terminated his agreement with Plaintiffs to test the audio tapes without an explanation.  It was James' impression from the conversation, and from the ease with which Pellicano obtained the tapes without a court order (along with the previous description given of his relationship with the FBI), that Pellicano had been involved earlier with the fabrication of the tape recordings in question.
 After Pellicano's withdrawal, Plaintiffs obtained a court order for the tapes and recording devices to be transported to Cain's laboratory for testing.  When the FBI arrived at Cain's location, they brought only the tapes, however no recording devices were submitted as dictated by the court order.  Without the recorders, it was impossible to resolve questions giving rise to Plaintiffs' suspicions regarding the fabrication of the tape recordings.
 During the trial, Plaintiffs, hired forensic expert Herbert Joe, from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who flew to Chicago pursuant to still another court order, to once again test the tapes and recording devices.  The FBI, as before, did not produce the recording devices.  Thus, Mr. Joe could not definitively evaluate the authenticity of the recordings, but did discover discrepancies relating to the star and stopping times for one of the key tapes.  That tape was a purported telephone conversation between Janice and the former vice president of Federal Security, who, at the time, was under arrest by the FBI.
 On that tape, two FBI Special Agents specifically state that the recording begins at 9:48 a.m.  The recorded conversation lasts for approximately 90 seconds, and the recorded voices of the agents then indicate that the recording concludes at 9:45 a.m.
 During trial, the government represented to the court that they could not produce the recording devices because they no longer existed and could not tell which recorder made a specific tape.  Janice later discovered proof that said that statement was untrue, when she obtained photocopies of receipts for the tape recorders issued to individuals and government operatives.  The receipts were discovered when Janice accessed documents within the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago after trial.
 Based on the presumed authenticity of the tape recordings, a jury in Chicago returned a guilty verdict against James and Janice on March 25, 2002.

                                                          RELEVANT PELLICANO CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
 On November 21, 2002, Pellicano was arrested in his West Hollywood office, by the FBI, pursuant to an ongoing investigation.  He subsequently pleaded guilty to possession of explosives and dangerous materials and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison.  In connection with Pellicano's arrest, FBI agent seized numerous computers, tape recordings and recording devices (including secretly recorded conversations from his office, many of which were recorded by illegal wiretaps).
 On February 4, 2006, Pellicano was indicted in federal court in Los Angeles for various crimes, including wiretapping.  News media reports gave details of Pellicano's wiretaps and his use of proprietary computer program he trademarked under the name, "Audiosleuth."  Pellicano had earlier demonstrated he program for a Los Angeles times Reporter to show how innocent conversations could be altered to appear incriminating or embarrassing.
 Pellicano's former employees stated that over the last 20 years, Pellicano was frequently hired by the FBI to, "clean up", and/or alter their tape recordings, and, FBI Agents were regular visitors at Pellicano's West Hollywood office.  Several accounts that suggested Pellicano was involved in falsification and/or fabrication of audio tape evidence in criminal proceedings, on behalf of law enforcement and the FBI, were widely publicized.

COUNT I
CONSPIRACY TO DEFAME AND COMMIT MALICIOUS PROSECUTION

 Based on information and belief and the foregoing allegations, Pellicano and other unknown individuals and government agents were responsible for the falsification and fabrication of the audio tape recordings introduced as evidence against Plaintiffs in their criminal trial.
 Pellicano and other individuals and government agents maliciously conspired to defame impugn JAMES and JANICE, ad each of them in their good name, to bring them into public disgrace and scandal and to cause JAMES and JANICE to be imprisoned for a long period of time and impoverish, oppress and ruin them, having wrongfully and maliciously and without any probable cause, had JAMES and JANICE charged with various offenses by falsely and maliciously causing a grand jury investigation to be commenced.

WHEREFORE, Plaintiffs, JAMES R. SKRZYPEK and JANICE M. SKRZYPEK, each of them and against Defendant, ANTHONY PELLICANO individually, for sums in excess of FIFTY THOUSAND 00/100 ($50,000.00) DOLLARS, plus an amount to be determined for punitive damages, together with the cost of this suit expended.

COUNT II
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ABUSE OF PROCESS

  Plaintiffs, repeat and re-allege Paragraphs ! Through 19 of this Count I, as though fully stated herein.
 That on information and belief, Pellicano agreed among unknown individuals and government agents, to in the fabrication of Plaintiffs' audio tapes in order to punish, harass 
and cause damage to Plaintiffs' personal and professional reputations.

          That in furtherance of this conspiracy, Pellicano's conduct, the Plaintiffs were caused
to suffer damages in the amount in excess of  $50,000.00, in attorneys'  fees and court costs in defending the false charges.

 Pellicano's conduct was willful and wanton and constituted reckless disregard of    
Plaintiffs, JAMES R. SKRZYPEK and JANICE M. SKRZYPEK, each of them, prays that
this Court enter a judgment in favor of JAMES R. SKRZYPEK and JANICE M. SKRZYPEK,each of them and against Defendant, ANTHONY PELLICANO individually,
for sums in excess of FIFTY THOUSAND 00/100 ($50,000.00)  DOLLARS, plus an amount to be determined for punitive damages, together with the cost of this suit expended.

James R. Skrzypek                                Janice M. Skrzypek

     VERIFICATION
 JAMES R. SKRZYPEK, on oath states that he has read the foregoing Complaint for  
Conspiracy to defame and Commit Malicious Prosecution, Conspiracy to Commit Abuse  of Process and other Relief by him subscribed that he knows the contents thereof and that the same are true and correct to the best of his knowledge and belief.

James R. Skrzypek 

     VERIFICATION
 JANICE M. SKRZYPEK, on oath states that she has read the foregoing Complaint for Conspiracy to Defame and Commit Malicious Prosecution, Conspiracy to commit Abuse of process and other Relief by her subscribed that she knows the contents thereof and that the same are true and correct to the best of her knowledge and belief.                                       
Janice M. Skrzypek




MOTION FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT AGAINST ANTHONY PELLICANO SENT TO THE CLERK OF COURTS 1/28/2008






 Letter To Mr. Richard Gosswiller From James R. Skrzypek

February 12, 2007
Dear Mr. Gosswiller:
Don Borian suggested writing to you about the case that was brought against me and my wife and the outrageous governmental criminal conduct that has put us here.  One form of this conduct is currently being investigated by CBS News in New York for a future broadcast that will focus on manufactured and falsified audio tapes used to convict us.  Both my wife and I are scheduled for an on-camera interview by CBS in the upcoming weeks.

 I have often thought about getting our story out there in some form or fashion, in order to highlight the awesome power of the federal government in convicting innocent people and to prevent this from occurring in the future.  I am not driven by financial gain, but only to show how easily this can happen to someone.
 By the way of background and timeline, both my wife and I opened a private security company, called Federal Security in 1991 that provided armed security guards to crime ridden high-rise project buildings in Chicago.  I had retired earlier from the Cook County Sheriff's Police Department and had a law enforcement background with 23 years of experience.  We employed several hundred guards over the course of the contract with the Chicago Housing Authority until we were closed by the FBI in October of 1994.  It was an extremely difficult business to operate because of the violence inflicted on our guards.  In three years of operation, two guards were killed and more than nineteen seriously wounded by gunfire.  During the summer of 1994, a reported three hundred shootings occurred between three buildings facing each other in a triangular configuration.  It was so serious that the media attention prompted a visit from the President Clinton in July of that year.  Our guards were continuously pinned down in the building lobbies and could not leave because of the intense shooting occurring outside.

 Eight months before we were closed by the FBI, out officers were burglarized in a "Watergate Style."  I observed agents removing wires from above false ceiling tiles in my office and knew they were responsible for the previous burglary, which is referred to as a "Black Bag Job".

 On July 23, 1997, my wife and I were indicted.  We were arrested in the rear of our attorney's office and transported back to our home  where a female FBI Agent accompanied my wife inside to retrieve an item of jewelry pursuant to a warrant.  I remained handcuffed in the rear of the vehicle while my wife activated our house alarm and then gave the keys to our employee for safekeeping, since our office was right next to our home.  We were arraigned and held in the Metropolitan Correctional center for three days.  When we arrived home after our release, our employee told us that the FBI had been in our home over those three days.

 In December of 1997, shortly after our indictment, I began listening to audiotapes that the FBI made of me and my wife.  When I heard them I realized they were completely manufactured and falsified.  The conversations were created and although the voices sounded like us, they were completely reproduced and created.  A forensic audiotape expert tested the copies of the tapes and stated that they were over recorded, edited and made with the several different tape recorders.
 Several efforts to test the original tapes were continuously met with opposition from the government requiring court orders for their production.  Our experts had to travel to Chicago to test the original tapes in 2001, but were denied access to them at the last minute.  The cost to re-test the tapes would be six thousand dollars on top of the six thousand already paid.
 My attorney told me to contact another tape expert for this examination and I found an expert in California named Anthony Pellicano.  Pellicano told me that he would charge me twenty five hundred dollars and have the tapes brought to his laboratory in Los Angeles by the FBI.  Since the FBI would not bring them to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin to the first expert's lab, I was skeptical that they would come to Los Angeles but was reassured by Pellicano that the FBI brings more tapes to him than they do their own lab in Quantico Virginia.  I told him that I would be calling him after I got an order from the court to transport the tapes to his location.

 Over the next several days, I tried to reach Pellicano without success and decided to keep the first forensic expert.  A few days later, I contacted by my attorney with Pellicano on a conference call and he told me that he took the liberty of contacting the FBI and the U.S. Attorney on my case and they were bringing the tapes to his office.  When I told Pellicano that I decided to keep the same expert, he became agitated and hung up the phone.  

 Pellicano was arrested shortly after our trial in 2002 and pled guilty to charges of possessing explosives and served over three years on federal charges.  He is currently awaiting trial on wiretapping and related charges in a highly publicized Hollywood scandal that has rocked the entertainment community and prominent legal representatives of Hollywood stars for using him in high profile divorce cases.  Several movie stars have hired lawyers who have retained Pellicano.  Prominent among those having hired or fell victim him are Tom Cruise, Steven Segal, Sylvester Stallone, Gary Shandling, Nicole Kidman, just to name a few.  In addition, several individuals have pled guilty to charges and have been sentenced in the scandal.

 When the FBI  arrested Pellicano, they seized thousands of hours of tapes of wiretaps that he had done on various victims.  The recordings  were encrypted on his computer system and are being deciphered by the NSA in an attempt to retrieve the information.  Also seized was a program called, "audio sleuth" that he developed which created new voices onto audiotapes that he had demonstrated for a Los Angeles Times reporter shortly before his arrest.  He demonstrated how easy it was to produce an incriminating conversation from the voice samples that were provided by the reporter.  Presently, I have filed suit in the District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, under the Freedom of Information Act for production of all tapes, flies, or other records pertaining to me or my company in the possession of the FBI or the United States Attorney's Office in Los Angeles.  Also included in that request is any telephone conversations that were made of anyone that he spoke to about my tapes, since it was highly publicized that he recorded everyone including his wife, girlfriends and children.

      Through inadvertence or divine intervention, I stumbled on Pellicano accidentally, and hired the man that created our audio tapes.  He had testified in cases that were on the edge and could have gone either way, but at the eleventh hour he managed to help the prosecution win their convictions.  His own defense attorney is the former federal prosecutor that he did most of his work for.  He had consistently bragged that the FBI was in and out of his office like a revolving door and that was by no means an accident.  He was finally exposed in a high profile kidnapping case when it was learned that his only education consisted of a G E D.
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      As stated before, several court orders were obtained for the production of the actual tape recorders used to make the recordings, maintenance records of the recorders, summary sheets and log books used by the government in recording our conversations.  Nothing was produced when the tapes were taken to the forensic expert in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin by the FBI.  This hampered the testing go the recordings and subsequently a definitive determination of authenticity could not be made.
      Another expert was hired while the trial was underway pursuant to another court order, but he encountered the same problems the first expect did and and nothing on the court order was produced.  This expect, however, determined that one of the tapes had the start and stop times reversed.  In the preamble of the tape, the FBI Agent clearly states that the time of the recording is 9:48 a.m.  He is concluded, he states that the time is 9:45 a.m.  He is there with a second FBI Agent when the tape is activated and when the tape is timed from start to finish, the duration is only a minute and a half, not three minutes as stated.
      During the trail, the Assistant U>S> Attorney, Brian Netols, told the judge that they were unable to produce the recorders because our case was to old and they don't know what recorders made what tapes.  This was soon proven to be a lie, since after trial we found evidence in the possession of the U. S. Attorney that there were receipts identifying the serial numbers of the recorders.  This is extensively briefed in our supplemental brief submitted to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Case#  05-2055 and 05-2056, that I was given permission, by the court, to file.  It also questions the authenticity of the tapes in great detail.
      For the past several weeks, the prosecutor has been trying to persecutor has been trying to persuade the district court to allow the government to supplement the record with the transcripts of the audiotapes played during trial.  We recently filed responses in opposition to allowing those transcripts to become part of the record on appeal because we found twenty four separate additions, deletions, changes and speaker substitutions between the actual transcripts that were played and the ones the government is trying to supplement the record with.  In one case, a female speaker is substituted for a male one in their copy of the transcript.  The filings that we made can be found under Case # 97 CR 516 in the district court and appellate court have been done pro se, with no help from appointed counsel.
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     All of the documentation that we found in the possession of the U. S. Attorney was submitted to the court on an original motion for a new trial.  In addition to receipts for tape recorders  with serial numbers, we were able to obtain the personal handwritten notes of the prosecutor, Brian Netols, that authorized covert searches of our vehicles.  In addition, we uncovered an FBI  Memorandum relating to a secret report prepared for the Chicago Housing Authority and was subsequently sealed by the court.  This Memorandum also listed additional FBI case numbers that pertained to another security company under investigation and went into detailed information uncovered with regard to bribery of Social Security Administration employees, times sheet round-tabling and the hiring of prohibited former housing authority personnel.

      None of these documents were ever turned over to us before, during or after trial.  They offer a glimpse of what the government is still holding back from us and probably one of the most disturbing documents is one that calls into question the attitude of the judge hearing our case.  It is a memo from Mr. Netols to his supervisors that advises them that he may have to counsel the judge" in order to make sure that he asks the proper questions as part of a hearing pertaining to us because of his, "casual attitude."

      The following incidents occurred prior to our trial in 2002:
      *  Several days after the FBI seized our records and computers, we requested payroll information from them so that we could pay the remaining employees.  To do this, we were using a home computer at our home next to our offices.  The FBI sent a disk from their offices which was downloaded to a new Pentium III computer owned by our consultant since it would not operate in our computer.  The disk destroyed the computer and we had to reimburse our consultant for his loss because the disk contained a powerful monkey virus deliberately sent to destroy data that the FBI was unable to seize in their initial search.

      *  Our original attorneys from the law Firm of Winston and Strawn sent their clerk to obtain downloaded data from computers that were in the possession of the FBI. While the data was being downloaded, the clerk noticed that some data was dated in December of 1994, two months after our original computers were seized.  He declined to accept the disk and made a report of his findings.

      *  A year after we were indicted, I was informed by a close friend that he had been unintentionally partnered with the IRS Case Agent handling the case against us at a political golf outing in a suburb of Chicago.  The agent, Jose Franco, was bragging about a big case that he was handling and began telling my friend confidential grand jury information.  He was totally unaware of who he was talking to and even posed for pictures on the golf course with my friend.  He gave him his card and a map to his house in Elgin, Illinois and told him that the FBI comes to him when they don't have a case and then we (IRS) take their assets to weaken them so that they can't afford a lawyer.  A complaint was filed with the Treasury Department and the picture, map and business card was given to the agent in charge but a dispositions has never been given as to the outcome.

      *  We were  informed that the government had indicted our former accountant for under reporting his income taxes.  We learned that he had actually embezzled more than seventy five thousand dollars that was earmarked for taxes from our company, but was charged, instead, with a lesser offense.  He was allowed to relocate to Las Vegas and while he was there he began employment with the Blue Chip Sports Betting Parlor.  He was asked by his boss to murder the boyfriend of a stripper he was dating and he complied by recruiting a hit man from Chicago to commit the crime.  The victim was lured out of his apartment on a ruse of his car being struck in the parking lot and once there he was shot in the head.  The prosecutor, Mr. Netols, allowed our accountant to  remain free on bond, even though  he served a previous sentence in federal prison.  That decision cost an innocent man his life.

      When our trial started in January of 2002, it was interrupted when I injured my back during jury selection.  I was excused by the judge to get medical attention and I was admitted to Northwestern Memorial Hospital for four days.  I was given drugs for pain and admitted to the pain management ward.  While in the hospital, the judge called me and asked me when I was returning to court.  I told him that I had just been sedated and was unable to respond intelligently to his questions and he subsequently continued to pick the jury.

      When I was released, my doctor ordered me to undergo therapy at home and a hospital bed was ordered for my recuperation.  I was called at home by the judge and was ordered to see a government doctor for an examination.

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I complied with the court order and was examined by a Doctor Martin Lanoff, in a downtown Chicago office.  Doctor Lanoff gave me and examination and had no x-rays or MRI"s during the time i was in his office.

      When we arrived home after the examination, we were called by our defense attorney who said that the FBI wason their way to our home to arrest me and that Doctor Lanoff testified that I was faking my injuries.  I was taken to the Metropolitan Correctional Center  and was taken to Bethany Hospital by the FBI where an emergency room doctor examined me.  I overheard that doctor and FBI Agent John Dewik engage in a conversation where Dewik asked the doctor to release me and said that he, "would owe him one"  for the favor.  I was made to sign the hospital release forms and resisted indicating that I did not want to sign them.  I was told that my defense lawyer would have to come to the hospital if I continued to refuse and reluctantly signed them with the notation, Agent Dewik testified that I signed the form of my free will and told the court that by signing the form I was in agreement that there was nothing wrong with me.  He was unaware of the notation that I included on the form that    I signed.     
 
      When I was taken back to the Metropolitan Correctional Center, I was placed in solitary confinement.  I was given no pain medications prescribed from Bethany hospital or from Northwestern Memorial Hospital. One medication was later given, after three days, for diabetes and none were given for my high blood pressure and respiratory conditions.  Blood sugar tests were only taken once in the twelve days of my confinement.  I complained of shortness of breath and a fellow inmate asked a doctor if he could see me because of my medical problems, which was subsequently denied.  I was placed in a cell with a man who was convicted of numerous gun charges who was facing a 15 year to life sentence.  I told the guard that I was a retired police officer and that I was not to be placed with inmates who would pose a danger to me, but that was ignored.

      While in custody, my wife tried to see me and was denied a visit.  A court order was issued for her to visit me because she was a co-defendant on the same case.  She was still not allowed to see me despite the court order.  I was not allowed to use the telephone to speak with her and I had no contact with my lawyers while there.  The only lawyer that tried to visit me was refused entrance because he lost his state bar card and was unable to prove that he was a lawyer.

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      While still in custody, my wife was contacted by an attorney by the name of James Koch and an unidentified assistant U. S.  Attorney.  We knew Mr. Koch since he earlier represented us in taking some sworn statements surrounding a labor matter involving our company.  The contact occurred outside the courtroom of the Federal Building where our trial was being conducted and its purpose was to obtain a plea agreement from my wife.  When she refused, they told her to think of herself and not worry about me.  It marked the second time that Mr. Koch  made contact relative to offering a plea deal for the government.  His first attempt was with me and I also refused.
      Our defense attorney was informed of both incidents with Mr. Koch and what he was doing on behalf of the government.  Daily documented accounts of what was transpiring throughout this time was faxed to the Inspector General in Washington noting the activities of the government and the treatment I was subjected to while in custody, specifically the lack of medication and medical attention.
 On the eleventh day of custody, the judge allowed me to go t o the Northwestern Memorial Hospital for a scheduled appointment with Doctor John Liu, Assistant Professor of Neurology.  The judge instructed the prosecutor, Mr. Netols assured him that he would comply.  After the judge left the bench, Mr. Netols told my attorney and my wife that I would have to get there myself.  This required her to return to the Metropolitan Correctional Center at 6 a.m., the following day, to pick me up in a taxi and then go to court for the trial.
 When we checked the credentials and record or Doctor Martin Lanoff who testified to my injuries being faked, we learned that he had numerous complaints with the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation, for the following:
 *Falsification of records         *Misdiagnosis          *Perjury in Previous Courtroom Testimony       *Unprofessional Conduct         *Wrongful Death

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It was discovered that the motivation for the testimony of Doctor Lanoff was a promise, from the U.S. Attorney's Office of future work as an expert.
 State court records revealed that Doctor Lanoff flunked, or withdrew from courses at several schools and universities and never earned a college degree.  He falsified applications to some of the most renowned hospitals in and around Chicago and was sued in 2005 for the wrongful death of a patient.
 When the trial finally began, the prosecutor, Mr. Netols gave an opening statement to the jury where he displayed photographs in front of them.  He told the jury that they were going to see pictures of our home in Chicago, that it had an indoor swimming pool and it ws nothing short of opulence on the inside.  When my wife asked defense counsel to see the search warrants, the prosecutor, Mr. Netols, stated in front of us that he had none.  We have attempted to obtain the pictures that were displayed to the jury and also any affidavits for search warrants that may have been denied, without success.

 The Freedom of Information lawsuit filed in Washington under Case# 06 1129, requested these documents and asked for the identities of all agents and officials entering our home while we were jailed on July 23, 24, and 25, 1997.  Prominent in their brief that they filed, the government, in response to my supplemental brief,  totally denied that they were ever in our home.  While I was preparing my reply brief in the appeal, I received a Statement of Material Fact as to which There is No Genuine Issue, signed by the United States Attorney in Washington DC that referred to a sworn declaration given by and IRS Agent stating that he was in our home.  I attached that to my reply and filed it with the Seventh Circuit Court if Appeals.  The Freedom of Information action that I initiated was successful in exposing the lies that the government was making before the Court.
 After our trial, we discovered the truth concerning the absence of our other defense attorney, Eric Ferleger.  The reason for his disappearance for 22 days during trial was not for purposes of doing research, as we were told by defense counsel Elliot Samuels, but because he fled the country after a warrant was issued for his arrest. On the sixth day of our trial, Mr. Ferleger left to appear in another courtroom where he physically assaulted a defendant outside a courtroom.  The injuries sustained to the man were so serious that he had to be rushed to the hospital where had just been released after undergoing open heart surgery.
 Mr. Ferleger fled the country and went on a caribbean cruise with his wife and friends.  He called the police department from the Post of St. Thomas and is heard on tape defiantly telling the detective that he was not going to surrender.  He never gave an opening statement, closing statement, called or cross examined a witness at trial, much less returned for the verdict.  He was arrested again for possession of a controlled substance.  We found out that he was under the care of a psychiatrist during the time of our trial and had been disciplined for bribery in 1991 according to the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission.
 Mr. Ferleger filed a motion with the court to turnover assets to him, ironically for legal fees that he said we owed him.  In that motion, he revealed confidential attorney/client conversations of me and my wife.  He was suspended from the practice of law and his term of suspension included alcohol, substance abuse, anger management and alcohol testing.  He was arrested again last year for his role in a money laundering scheme and is awaiting trial.
 We are currently awaiting a decision on our appeal, along with a decision on the audiotape transcripts that the government is attempting to supplement the record with, plus responsive records pursuant to our Freedom of Information action.  CBS News is also assisting us in procuring documents under the Freedom of Information Act to show the falsification and manufacturing of the audiotapes.

 I am deeply grateful for your time in considering the possibility of developing a story with our information and hope that something can develop from our tragedy that will both expose and prevent this from happening to other people.

Sincerely,

James R. Skrzypek
P.O. Box 1000
Duluth, MN 55814

WHO IS ATTORNEY ERIC P. FERLEGER THAT BADLY REPRESENTED THE SKRZYPEKS IN THE COURT ROOM?

Eric Ferleger fled the country during the trial of Federal Security after a warrant was issued for his arrest for physically beating a man outside a neighboring courthouse in Chicago. 
Here's his mugshot after being arrested for wrongdoing.

DocuBook Mugshot- ERIC P. FERLEGER  MALE 5'7''   WEIGHT 145   DOB 01/18/1952  ARREST DATE 3/12/2002 

Loop Lawyer Charged In Home Repair Scam

Anthony Pellicano (born March 22, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois) is a former high-profile Los Angeles private investigator who recently served a sentence in federal prison for illegal possession of explosives, and who was arrested on February 4, 2006, on unlawful wiretapping and racketeering charges.



 2006 Indictment
On February 6, 2006, Pellicano was indicted on 110 counts in federal court in Los Angeles alleging crimes of racketeering and conspiracy, wiretapping, witness tampering, identity theft and destruction of evidence. Six other associates were also charged.[1] Pellicano was denied bail. Pellicano presently is being held in general population at the Federal Detention Center in Los Angeles. His trial, and that of five other co-defendants, is scheduled to begin on February 27, 2008. The trial date has been delayed three times, due to a lengthy discovery process, according to press reports,[2] and for the addition of defense counsel.[3]
The indictment alleges, in part, that members of the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills police departments unlawfully accessed confidential records on celebrities and public figures that they turned over to Pellicano.[4] Pellicano and associates allegedly tapped actor Sylvester Stallone's telephone and accessed confidential police records on other public figures, including comedians Garry Shandling and Kevin Nealon.
The indictment was amended on February 15, 2006, to include two more charges of wiretapping and extortion, at which time prominent entertainment attorney Terry Christensen was also charged. To date, thirteen people have been charged in the pending matter.
On June 7, 2006, the Associated Press reported that Pellicano performed an illegal background check on a law enforcement official who was investigating client and con artist Christopher Rocancourt in a fake passport scheme.[5]

 Once known as "P.I. to the stars"
Before his arrest and guilty plea on the explosives charge, Pellicano was known in the mass media as the "PI to the stars" because of his work for many prominent Hollywood celebrities. According to former associate Paul Barresi, Pellicano would purchase tabloid reporters' celebrity gossip before it became public. He then would offer to do damage control for $25,000 or more. "He says these people pursue him to hire him, when in fact, he pursues them," said Barresi.[6]
As a result of an investigation involving one of his former clients, actor Steven Seagal, FBI agents raided Pellicano's offices on November 21, 2002, searching for evidence he was involved in a threat against a Los Angeles Times reporter investigating Seagal and Julius Nasso. During the search, agents found two practice grenades modified to function as homemade bombs as well as military-grade C-4 plastic explosives sufficient to take down a passenger jet.[7] 





NEWSPAPER ARTICLE AND THE 7TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION IN A LABOR DISPUTE

This dispute was brought against Federal Security by the National Labor Relations Board and the NLRB lost unanimously. Please note that the Justices on the Appellate Court decided unanimously that Federal Security was doing an outstanding job. 
















CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT ON WILLIAM FLETCHER, THE FORMER PURCHASING AGENT FOR THE CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY

These documents show the disparity paid to the guard companies by the Chairman who was involved with the "Nation Of Islam" in a business deal that went sour. Lane served a federal after he was convicted a few years ago for the scandel in Chicago. This is another FBI 302.






FULL SCALE INVESTIGATION WAS PERFORMED BY AN  INDEPENDENT LAW FIRM OF JENNER AND BLOCK OF      THE CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY

The circled material , and second on list is their file number 147A-CG-92714 , was discoverd after the trial of Federal Security. The judge in the district court, Judge Moran, sealed the report from public view. This report was never released to the general public in Chicago and shows a full scale investigation.  Of which the former U. S. Attorney himself, ANTON VALUKAS was in charge of after he left the U. S.  Attorney's Office in Chicago. After Federal Security issued  subpoenas for the report, the Law Firm of Jenner and Block arrived with a team of lawyers to fight Federal Security on the release of the report. Today, it is still not known what it says and neither do the people and citizens of Chicago who paid for it, are entitled to see it. The FBI number at the bottom of the page is the FBI case number referring to Federal Security.