Palatine Mayor Rita Mullins 1

2010-01-01T13:08:00.009-08:00

Welcome to Palatine

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A forensic examiner, investigating the mayor, has vanished into thin air. She's said to have been fired by the Attorney General office and the Schiller Park police department doesn't know her whereabouts either. http://www.illinoiscorruption.net/shahna.html

Moral of the story is, make a campaign contribution and you can, buy your self a worthless politician, cop, judge or a Attorney General. Give a bribe and call it a consulting fee on your tax.

All legal, all go to church, all hold babies, all got their hands in each other's pocket. All cover their backs. All got the dirt on each other. If one goes, they all go.

The American public has a bad case of the Stockholm syndrome?

Legalized organized crime. Home grown terrorist.

just another crook

2009-12-30T13:44:00.004-08:00

You mean to say mayor Mullins, the village council, Ottesen or nobody knew about this? What about the village events in which Spizzirri represented/replaced mullins?

In October 2006, Annabel was charged with destroying SALF's files, among them financial records. Those charges were entirely based on claims made by SALF's founder/president Carol J. Spizzirri of Grayslake, IL. According to multiple news reports, Spizzirri has a history of serious fabrications, including the false claim that she is a Registered Nurse; that she worked as a renal transplant nurse in a Milwaukee hospital; and that she earned a BSN degree from a Wisconsin college whose name she misspelled on her CV. According to a recent sworn affidavit, in 1985 a Milwaukee court-ordered psychologist, Dr. Burton S. Silberglitt, diagnosed Spizzirri as "paranoid schizophrenic."

Nevertheless, based on Spizzirri's word, the offices of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and the Cook County Prosecutor have indicted her. Facts indicate they have done so in order to cover-up SALF's longstanding relationships with powerful political cronies and funders. These include Attorney General Madigan and her father Mike Madigan, longtime IL House of Representatives Speaker of the House and Chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois.

After more than three years of such legal harassment, this site was launched in an attempt to bring public attention to this abuse of the legal system. Illinois taxpayers may wonder why the state's top law enforcement officer and Cook County Prosecutor Anita Alvarez are expending so much time and public money to prosecute this trumped-up case against her rather than investigate what happened to the millions of tax dollars that went to the Save-A-Life Foundation.

http://www.illinoiscorruption.net/

which one is his wife?

2009-12-29T21:51:00.001-08:00

http://buchusnibbles.blogspot.com/

Question) How many times do you think immigration (confirmation # CHI-09-25526) said yesterday, this bartender in Palatine, can do the following things to his wife? rape, beat, punch, force oral sex, abuse, threaten her, to have the police take her away, threaten to her, to have immigration take her away and be deported, threaten to beat and punch her more, additional intimation, humiliate, have arrested, beat more, makes her work 3 jobs, takes her pay checks, forces her to clean the apartment, wash his cloths, cooks his meals, brings other women over to the apartment, sleeps, have sex, get drunk, parties with them, takes his wife's keys, locks her out of their apartment (both names on lease), into the cold, makes her sleep in her car, makes her wait in the car or a street corner, until he's finished, makes her walk to work, makes her pay all the bills, support him, give him spending money, denies her access to her religion and threatens to kill her if she says any thing to any one? Before he can have her legally deported, conditional green card revoked?

Answer) "As many times as he wants. He is American citizen / she is not, we believe him not her. She has no rights in this country". The legal Assistance Foundation 2 blocks away, agreed, with the immigration officer (I was not allowed, to be apart of that meeting).

Beat her almost to death, for refusal of anal sex or oral sex. Deport her, with any sexually transmitted disease, HIV, a broken neck, leg, arm, maybe a eye socket or 2. Its a he said, she said, he has rights, she don't.

God, I think, in any religion gave every one the same equal rights. But Immigration and the American government says otherwise.

Nobody seems to care what a drunken man that weighs 150 pounds more than a 100 pound woman can do in a fit of rage.

The reality of The American way.

The basic human rights, of dignity, respect and worth are not a option. These are the cold hard facts. I think there is a major, problem, nobody cares other than a little lip service.

This woman 5', 100 pounds, was in a State university at 14, received her degrees at 18 (Harper College said the are equivalent of Bachelors degrees), Speak fluent (degreed in) 4 languages (Russian, Turkish, German and English), she can communicate, conduct a conversation in Spanish and French also. Has additional degrees in fine arts. Had teaching certificate at 19, was teaching at 20. Now as a battered and abused spouse of a American citizen, she has no rights as a human being, as a legal immigrant. Beaten, raped and humiliated every day is legal in the USA, Palatine, Illinois. This is the Law of the United States Government and there is nothing any one can do about it. She is scared, terrorized, afraid, alone and help less. I try to help. I had tears in my eye, yesterday. The worst days of her life was to come to this country. Now she is a slave, she don't know if and when her husband will murder her, today, tonight, tomorrow. When the police or immigration will take her away. She pays taxes, keeps quite or else, she is a broken women that wouldn't hurt a fly, her heart was riped out of her, trashed and it's legal. She has been married for 18 months to this creep.

.Welcome TO the real USA.

Foot note) What is she going to do? Call a Palatine cop? That has the blessing of the Village council, Village manager, Judge Scotillo (and his law bar), his boss, the attorney general, Madigan, Alveraz (and her law bar), every law proffessor in Illinois, every federal judge down town, the crime commission with the Gov, every senator in this country, the president of USA (his office contacted as senator), for a Palatine cop to alter, manipulate, provide a false report, to lie, perjure, obstruct, cover up. Let's not forget Baker.

Heck the police chiefs kid admitted to extracting a false confession (torture?, how else to you extract a false statement from some one?). Haas (the police chief of Inverness) was helping, cleaning up the mess? Then there's the $125k and Tatooles (fishy to me).

Maybe the cop she would or could call, or the cop sent over to protect her, is taking the photo?

Maybe one of the cops (more than once), that mauled down a pedestrian (on more than one occasion), in town, was leaving this bar or on their way to.

There is no justice, justice has been re named the boys club, organized crime, home grown terrorist with a badge.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism

You think mayor Schwantz is running a tab at this place also? For the good ole boys? Maybe one of the council members are on the other side of the bar.

Where you got Schwantz, you got Mullins and Tatooles and the 3500 other people I contacted for help. No one gives a shit, no one cares........ but me, I care.

How many cops do you think are behind the camera, falling off the bar stools with their pants down to their ankle, riped out of their tree? How many unmarked squad cars out side? Did he call em and tell em, I got some hot chicks ready to go or was this a regular night for the boys?

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We stopped by John's place talked to Helaina, she said you got to call him up, do what ever he wants and after it's all over, when he's done with you, maybe he will let you stay in this country, maybe not. This is the only choice you have.

She called this creep, using my phone, begging him, she would give him any thing, do anything he wants, but, please don't f..k up my life, she's sorry. He said Fuc* you, bitch and hung up the phone. I could not believe my ears.

This is a good, honest, women, makes my blogs seem so insignificant.

I let scum bags, know they are scum bags, the good know they are good.

tired, a very tuff day, Immigration letting her know, her life is not even worth spit

2009-12-29T18:44:00.007-08:00

A tuff day. Coming home on the blue line from a day at immigration. Her husband can continue to beat, rape, oral sex or I kill you, punch, abuse, any thing he wants, break her legs, arm, neck, kill her. When he's done and satisfied, he can have her deported. This is the law. She has no rights. I had tears in my eyes.

Palatine raped me with the blessings of many, no body cared.

I got a good idea, but not close, what she's going threw. Nobody cares, but me.

He has started the deportation process against her.

in the mean time......

the Palatine High School choir perform at the White House

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/world/europe/25russia.html

Nobody in this town, state or country gives a shit, I wounder what Moscow would say. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/world/europe/25russia.html

At 20 years old, a school teacher (a gifted, child whiz kid), that could speak, read and write 6 different languages with university diplomas at the age of 18. Nobody has seen her draw or paint (I have), she is a incarnated Van Gogh.

This is 95 pounds of God given talent. I would bet, with another 4 years, she could speak, read and write in 6 more languages. Heck there is no telling what she could achieve. I would bet she could fly threw law school in a year if she wanted, paint a mural on the side of a mountain, commercial artiest, police sketch artiest, school teacher, acting school (she would like to try), you name it, this woman is on a different wave length.

.The deportation process is under way..

His own sworn testimoney and wrtten statements with US Immigration, are the completely opposite, documents he filed at the Rolling Meadows court house. He is liable for, perjury in a federal court, perjury in a state court, false documents. Public documents, that are on record, that cannot be disputed, but who cares?

Any one can probably prove the black mailed that married woman he was banging (took pictures of her legs spread wide open) or is this bar talk, only. Is he also a pathological lier?

Then there is the 208.333 gallons a month of booze he drinks......... by his own admission. Don't take much to, probably, prove he's a alcoholic. There for, has the incapacity to make a rational decision, there for, what ever he does is OK? No law against being a alcoholic.

Her crime, is, a year and half of sexual, physical and mental abuse, by her American spouse, who threatened her with brutality or murder, if she spoke to the authorities..

What good would it do any way? She told me what immigration would say and she was right. I told her about village cops and false documents, reports they give to the courts and how the village council helps to cover em up. How the states attorney, attorney general, the judges, governor helps to conceal. And besides, this guy probably gets em all drunk and treats them to other stuff.

That a cop is probably not your friend.

Her crime was coming to America and believing in this country.

She is a gift from God to man (she don't know it, nor does any else). What a waste.

Does any one want to know about Irina? and her deportation, we could find her, back in Russia. I'm sure, she has similar stories. How many Russian immigrant have been beat, raped, threatened?

.Palatine, home of legalized Serial rapist of female immigrants - 3 or more separate events, with a emotional cooling off period.

She did go to the Palatine Police. In essence they "said come back after he kills you, then we'll take a report and if your to dead to talk, that's the breaks".

http://1985-mike.blogspot.com/

http://ms1985mm.blogspot.com/

Piss flows down hill. I think we all get the picture.

What was Mullins preferred method of torture? Did she watch? or help?

2009-08-01T13:37:00.010-07:00

How do you extract a false confession from a Innocent person? (I posted a bunch of questions)

Palatine pays its cops money to do this,

worse, I would bet Steve Bratcher, has lived to torture another person, another day.

Dick Devine's office shredded a confession by another person, but used this confession by means of torture (right there in court documents)

This is a crime against humanity, this is a war crime.

I don't know what is worse:

this torture, extracting false confessions

or shredding another confession

or a cop mauling down a few residents,

or Baker taking discount for cash payments,

or top state awarded DUI cop - Wenrich hallucinating on the job,

or another top state awarded DUI cop - Hunter not noticing a thing,

or Wenrich's perjured testimony,

or Wenrich's false documents to the court,

or Tatooles, covering this up for Mullins,

or Mullins covering up for Bratcher

or Bratcher blackmailing Tatooles because of this cover up,

or Haas just sitting around making sure all goes OK,

or Village council approval

or mayor approval

or another village council approval

or another mayor's approval

or judicial approval

or Cook County D.A's approval humHappened on Daily's, Devine'swatch, now it's Alvarez watch

or Attorney General Lisa Madigan approval

or Gov Quinn's approval

There is a major problem here, I think there are more criminals in the courts, law enforcement and elected to office, than on the street. You tell me Who's involvement is more criminal than the palatine police chiefs kid and the cops that helped and cleaned up the mess. Maybe Jack and that other council man cleaned up the mess after the torture (re;cleaned up the chicken mess, as a side deal with Chief Bracher)

I think Mayor Mullins is a disgrace

2009-04-05T17:38:00.000-07:00

Listen folks, I recall the few time, I watched village meetings, I saw Mullins and her village council, threaten to have citizens arrested.

The residents of Palatine were complaining that Mullins and her village council lied to them.

Mullins and her goon squad said this discussion is not on this evenings agenda, so we are not going to talk about. Sit down, be quiet or leave, or you will be arrested.

I was shocked.

From that point on as far as I am concerned, none of them are worth 2 cents, to be nicer, I along with many other were very disappointed.

Can you imagine that, Mullins and the village council, for starters should have been arrested for malfeasance. It is on video tape, I only saw it a few times, I'm sure this has happened for than a few times.

and they threatened to arrest the innocent voters.

Where is the transparency? Good government?

If you got a better name for this let me know?

I'm sure, I could find these residents maybe they have a better name?

2009-04-05T16:59:00.005-07:00

I think the mayor profited from illegal activities.

Mullins says

2009-04-05T16:59:00.003-07:00

Mullins said she brings experience and professionalism to the job. She learned about ordinances and how village business is conducted during eight years as clerk and owned a small business for 12 years. And with no other job, she's got plenty of time.

She's seen Schwantz at four meetings. Of the other two candidates for Palatine mayor, Vito Manola's been to one and Warren Kostka "just sits in the back and reads his newspaper," Mullins said.

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/print/?id=277121

poor attendance at council meetings

2009-04-05T16:59:00.001-07:00

"missed a boat load due to travel"

http://continuousclippings.com/compare

maybe boat load of city business?

falsified petitons?

2009-04-05T16:51:00.000-07:00

Palatine petitions falsified, rival says Mayor accused in signature scam for committeeman race

Article from:: Chicago Sun-Times
Article date:: January 14, 2002
Author:: Lucio Guerrero
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Longtime Palatine Mayor Rita Mullins is facing a legal challenge in her quest for another political office.

Mullins, campaign-ing with two others to become Republican township committeeman for the northwest suburb, will have to answer charges regarding allegations that she falsified election documents.

The Cook County Election Commission will begin listening to claims today that Mullins signed about a dozen nominating petition sheets that were actually circulated by someone else.

Attorneys for one of the opposing candidates, Gary Skoien, collected more than 45 affidavits from residents who said they did not see Mullins when they signed a petition for her candidacy, even though her signature .

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1430360.html

Mullins has a fan, maybe would like to go to jail with her or for her?

2009-04-04T18:51:00.001-07:00

Anonymous said...: Thats completely made up by a wako. First of all, the salary for the mayor was $6,ooo dollars a year and it just went up $15,000. Its a public service job. Look it up, its public record.

You can also request that documentation under the freedom of information act. But honestly, the palatine dirt guy is a wack job.; April 4, 2009 4:00 PM
Mike said...: I got my information from a councilman. Maybe he don't know what he or the mayor is making. That is why I have a ?

I presented Mullins and others, with criminal activity that she and others (buddies?) seem to ignore, which by law makes her a accessory to the crime committed.

Maybe I am wack job, if i want law and order, remove double standard, want more truthful, honest and respectful out put from a civil servant.

I want harmony, but it is hard to accomplish all this dirt.

I never asked one of Mullins cops that was high on drugs to pull me over, to give perjured testimony, to provide the court with false documents.

Mullins did not seem interested in a investigation, she quashed one once before.

Would you like Mullins or others go free, committing crimes that if you or I committed, we would see jail?

http://2muchswag.blogspot.com/2009/03/jim-schwantz-for-palatine-mayor.html?showComment=1238896140000#c3444469324122262065

Mullins forge election documents?

2009-04-03T08:02:00.001-07:00

Palatine petitions falsified, rival says Mayor accused in signature scam for committeeman race

Article from:: Chicago Sun-Times
Article date:: January 14, 2002
Author:: Lucio Guerrero
More results for:: rita mullins self-interest

Longtime Palatine Mayor Rita Mullins is facing a legal challenge in her quest for another political office.

Mullins, campaign-ing with two others to become Republican township committeeman for the northwest suburb, will have to answer charges regarding allegations that she falsified election documents.

The Cook County Election Commission will begin listening to claims today that Mullins signed about a dozen nominating petition sheets that were actually circulated by someone else.

2009-04-02T09:44:00.001-07:00

I heard, Mayor Mullins become a millionaire

on her $22k per year salary?

Update! $22k per year salary is if she attends board meetings, since she don't, her salary is $15k per year (as pointed out by "anonymous" Thank you for letting us know, that she does not attend meetings enough to qualify her for the $22k. Or does she? I heard she don't.

the city of Palatine has paid her $1.5 million dollars in benefits (based upon $75k x 20 years) or maybe it's $70 k per year,

we have to add what she got, when she sued the city or the city insurance company (to me same thing) but in a case like me, the insurance company would drop me or jerk up my rates, what did the insurance company due to Palatine?

we have to add her village credit cards

how about adding the $650k for selling her 80? year old house on a 1/2 size lot (with lien(s) on the title) (let's not forget the village passed a ordnance to pay those liens, if any one ever sued)

Thanks to the village council for this statue of guarantee, other wise, the Harris bank probably would not let Mullins sell the property to Hummel. As far as I am concerned all of em aided and abetted, grand theft (stole the service from those who did work on the property and didn't get paid), this Village council is wrapped up in 1 huge criminal conspiracy or a billion little ones.

We have to add the hidden money she gets from SALF (I think it is hidden, cant find any thing to Mullins on the SALF expense site, I think it is right there but in disguise of another expense).

I hope there is no tax problem here?

I think there were a couple other agencies she gets money from.

At this point I guess she is well over 1 million $, millionaire, hey don't get me wrong, I wish ever one was a millionaire, but the point is hook or crook (how and where that money came from)

how about some other perks, pay offs, bribes, that we could probably find

maybe this is what is driving the candidates for her job.

breeds corrupton

2009-03-29T06:34:00.000-07:00

Palatine mayor Mullins and her "SALF" sues several people http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/save-life-foundation-v-baratz

This link does not include the law suite against the Village of Palatine insurance company re; her trip injury in washington dc on official business?

judge Scotillo's wife is a "of council" on the defense team http://www.skdaglaw.com/staff.html

Read these blogs about how judge Scotillo aided and abetted, covered up, obstructed justice in a trial that involved a couple of mayor Mullins state awarded dui cops that where hi on drugs during arrest of me and how this cover up grew, kind of like Jack and the bean stalk.

What do I do or any one do, file a police report like Drew Peterson's dead or missing wife's?

We need more love, kindness to others, helping others, neighborly to others, but kind of hard when we are bombarded by all this dirt, deceit, misgivings.

I blog because I love every one (don't necessary like every one), because I am trying to help those who have become so ingrained in corruption, don't know any thing else, don't know how to turn around or stop. Maybe we can start, work togeather and make things better. Maybe there are 12 steps out from disgrace? Maybe we aught to sit at a table and talk about it?

The mayor is using a firm that does municipal work (probably pushing the legal fees onto the village or entity there of) and the firm that defends the defendants is the wife of a judge that defends Mullins and the corruption she breeds.

Lets not forget about the Scotillo's Palatine Law Bar, Northwest Suburban Bar Association, (both Scotillo's were 2 time presidents) Nancy Scotillo law bar matriarch for 23 years? My defense lawyer #1 of 5 past law bar president, defense lawyer #2 of 5 board of governor.

As far as I am concerned Scotillo's law bar is another branch of organized crime (I emailed all governors). What was I thinking? Asking a law bar to follow the law? I must be nuts.

I would suggest the legislative branch of government and gov Quinn pass new laws that make corruption legal, since it is so hard not to be corrupt, that will remove double standards.

One big happy family

Welcome to Mayor Mullins

I would not trust Mayor Mullins for 2 cents

2009-03-16T10:55:00.000-07:00

. or any of her friends and associates and I got good reason, she belongs in jail. I have blogged enough facts, to throw her in jail for a long time.

these crimes were not necessarily committed yesterday, but are apart of a on going, daily pattern, or criminal activity. You add criminal conspiracy and it don't matter when the crimes were committed.

Just the cover up alone, of cops on drugs during my arrest, that she knows about, is enough to lock her up for a long time. Every day in her life, is another day in which she aids and abets, thus a accessory to obstruction of justice.

You add any one of a bunch of other stuff on these blogs, she is past due, for a date with the jailer.

Mullins gets $70k? benifite package per year

2009-03-16T07:06:00.000-07:00

Plus

free to use village credit cards (I herd on the village grape vine, she has abused, likes to live in high style, the first class lane),

a trouble free, village car, free gas,

4 years ago she doubled her salary to $22k, along with her goon squad village council to $12k

Council members have about a 45k benefit package per year.

Mullins sells 1/2 lot for $650k, with a dirty title

2009-03-16T06:50:00.000-07:00

Village voted to guarantee Mullins property title, with no problems or a buy back.

A Statute in the archives of palatine, covering Mullins dirty property title, aint this another crock.

The Harris bank in Palatine is involved, thus the Bank of Montreal is involved http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:-aWzmmGI0ksJ:www.redflex.com/public_documents/asx_announcements/2004-08-04%2520A%2418.4M%2520funding%2520facility%2520with%2520Harris%2520Bank.pdf+Harris+bank+owned+by+canada+bank&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a .
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Now lets probe into the relation ship between Mullins and the Harris, the Bank of Montreal, let us not forget the location of the federal reserve board in Chicago.

A lot of money has been changing hands in Palatine.

The Lot is to small to build a house on, she manipulated the reconstruction of down town Palatine to make a killing on a other wise worthless lot.

To me, it sounds like some one (maybe a roofer fixed the roof, or plumber did something, or maybe a painter?) did work on the Mullins property and did not get paid, so they put a lien on the house, the guy did not have money to foreclose, so lien rights expired, but stayed on the property. Chicago title, or the Harris should know who this person was. So instead of paying the guy who did the work on the property (house), she had her goon squad, lap dog, village council pass a law, allowing Mullins not to pay the bill. Hummm, I wounder if there was a permit? I doubt it.

Here was another example of Mullins in her true form.

I wounder what Merrimak glass got paid for their business, If I recall correctly, he did not want to sell, it was not pleasant. Maybe the reason Hummel gave Mullins so much for her property was because, Mullins and her council members, threatened eviction and condemnation of the glass company across the street. Thus Hummel got a chunk of property in down town palatine at a discount price and put up a Hummel brewery building.

or am I thinking of another place in town, there were so many people moving, relocating, it's hard to keep track (especially not being a insider (but plenty of those)).

Most likely the contractor or who ever put the lien on the house, still did not get paid. As a plumbing contractor I run across scum bags like this all the time, doing work for a grease ball home owner and not getting paid.

non stop dirt, I am just kicking the dirt away with my foot, take a shovel and some one that knows what to look for and, worse news for Mullins.

Here is a grand theft charge she seemed to escape with the blessing of her village council and her police department, who aided and abetted and are co conspirators, accessories.

Look at Fred Hall another piece of crap (in my books) (he was involved with work I did and have not paid for. Guilty of grand theft. Another example of a dirt bag. and I am not talking about the bob cat work I did at the horse stable for Roland, in which Cathy told me there would be a 2 party check. We all know what happened there. And some of us know about the kick backs that took place with real estate transaction.

Find Bud, he will tell you, other than that not many are talking about it. Vito should know about it, he is associated with the Palatine park district. But I know all I need to know, I know others to contact if I need to know more more.

how is judge scotillo connected to all of this? other than the cover up of a cop high on drugs during arrest

2009-03-13T09:38:00.000-07:00

Mullins endorses perjury, false documents

Mullins endorses and promotes alcoholism

Mullins allows cops high on job

Mullins allows tampering with evidence

Mullins allows drug infested police department

Mullins allows 911 calls to be doctored

Mullins endorses kick backs

I don't think Mullins is a good mayor or a good person.

Mullins re define the definition of Trust, code of honor and ethics.

extortion, bribes or kick back?

2009-01-09T16:04:00.000-08:00

The contractor that did $1 billion worth of work in Palatine, the one that gave Mullins $350k more than her house on a 1/2 lot was worth, was this extortion? a bribe? or maybe a campaign contribution?

With a dirty title (who did work on her house and did not get paid)? The Village council voted to guarantee a buy back if problem occurred.

A $1 billion dollars worth of work, but there are 7 village council members? x $350k?

How great full would a village council, think is necessary?

This is the contractor that has been plowing snow for Palatine for 30 years? I think, for many years this has been more bid contract http://palatine-dirt.blogspot.com/

Mullins, goon squad of cops can run around on drugs, do shake downs, playing mail man for the council men, bust your door down on unpaid parking tickets, beat up people they arrest. But when it comes to telling the truth in a court of law, that's another story, they have the blessings to deceive.

knowingly provided false documents to the courts.

Betty Loren Maltese northwest

Mullin's some how, got the D.A. and courts to praise cops high on drugs on duty at the same time making false police reports and perjured testimony. If the courts were not so corrupt and involved, they would be outraged.

This is the demo-ed, vacant lot across from Hummel's brewery building. Hummel paid $650k, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5273/is_200602/ai_n20815736-------- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5273/is_200504/ai_n20865992 tore down the house, probably dumped the debris, on the other side of town. Now the lot might be worth $200, $150k? Extortion, bribe, a kick back is not a write off but hide it with a real estate purchase, professional services, consulting fee, then it is...... legal in Palatine or any place, when you own your own Police department.

I say, arrest Mullins, let her tell a jury, have them decide there is no hanky panky, The Palatine Police has known about this since April 2005. Why have they not arrested the mayor?

Maybe the Bratcher's consulting company did some private consulting for Hummel or Mullins?

I would think, her council members got a piece of the $1 billion pie. What do you think they talk about in private meetings? Then there are more than private meetings..... hush, hush meetings.

A audit of the village and a couple more agencies around town, will cause some problems for many.

How come her private, exclusive, drug infested police department (plenty of evidence) did not arrest her or the contractor? These cops go to schools and tell the students say no to do drugs. Ever seen a "D A R E" car parked in the school parking lot. Most of the kids should know by that age, cops cannot be trusted, heard or seen it. Who is kidding who?

I'm telling you this smells like organized crime, racketeering, and who knows what else?

Then there is Fred Hall (in charge of the Palatine Park district for 20? years), up to his neck in corruption, no body has the balls to say any thing. I did a job for the Palatine legion over a year ago, he and the legion decided not to pay, never paid me, stole my labor, material, equipment (service). A typical scum bag, shopping for a job after the job is done, Another reason not to respect a man is when he don't pay for service or labor rendered. Little ole me, what am I going to do?.......certainly do no more work for the legion. http://fredhall-palatine.blogspot.com/ . I think Fred Hall should have been put in jail along time ago, insiders, know exactly what I am talking about. The Palatine Police have looked the other way a long time, Look at who was Fred's right hand man, cops going to throw one of their owns kids or 2, that may be burglarizing the village, in jail? I think Rita took lessons from Fred, saw how easy it was to be corrupt. Fred and the Legion know of the scam the cops pulled on me (a plumber in town for 35 years, I am no stranger). As a matter of fact, I was doing a job for the legion (got paid) when a retired supreme court justice called me about my trial. I said I had no paper, and that I would have defense lawyer #3 call Charlie for your number. http://warrenbreslin.blogspot.com/ If Vito knew of some pay offs in the Park District, there might be another problem. Nothing new about getting a job and making a contribution,

or making a contribution of some sort and getting a building or zoning variance. This is not rocket scientist stuff. Watching city meetings I would always wounder what the pay offs were, I mean when some one would want a permit and be refused, then say the guy over there and there and there have the same thing, how come I can't have it, the issue would often be a offset or something.

Rod Blagojevich committed less crimes with less evidence and investigated by more people, than the crimes little ole me has exposed (more evidence, more crimes, more people). Look at the problem he has, then look at the problem free criminals in Palatine, that have gotten off scott free. Criminal activity praised and glorified by the courts. This don't make sense to me at all. Blogo should live in Palatine.

You want to see some juicy video taps of citizens coming before mayor Mullins and the village council, at public meetings, calling them a bunch of lairs..... Mullins and her club, throwing the residents out or get arrested? Why Mullins and her council were not arrested at those meetings, go to show, who owns the cops.

Maybe the next mayor will sell his house for $350k over market value? To the same guy.

Some one aught to call the Army Engineer Corp and put 2 & 2 togeather, then explore a little more and then a little more, hahahahahahahhahahahahhahah I bet, this is the stuff not even talked about in hush hush hush meetings behind closed doors, hahahahhaahhaah.

http://speedcathollydale4.blogspot.com/2009/02/mayor-elizabeth-b-kautz-from-burnsville.html

hides exculpatory evidence, aids and abbets corruption

2009-01-07T14:12:00.001-08:00

I was hoping that the mayor would have fired and jailed the corrupt law endorsement officers in her police department. But nothing. She a accessory to obstruction of justice, fraud, criminal conspiracy.

I was arrested by Palatine police officers, Wenrich and probably Hunter (sitting right next to him for 2 hours) were high on drugs, something was wrong with dispatch, (for not recognition) along with, shift commander, deputy chief, chief. A major cover up which involves mayor Mullins, Tatooles, 2 village councils, 2 police departments, a law bar, 1 retired supreme court justice, 1 appellate, 1 trial judges 1 D A's office. They all hanged me out to dry and went on their mary way, in this BS scam of major proportions. http://judgescotillo.blogspot.com/

I have provided Obama and Dick Durbin, Lisa Madigan, her father, the fbi, Tod Strogers, Anita Alvarez and others with more court certified, indictable, criminal evidence than the FBI did Blagojevich. Why cover up? How far and how long can this go on.

Has any one looked up racketeering? RICO?

Has any one looked up criminal conspiracy? and it's unlimited time limit.

Maybe I am missing something, maybe my interpretation of certain words that I look up in the dictionary (only have a high school education) are off?

Because crimes involved over $100k a terrorism charge should be worth 10 years in jail.

The cover up of the her cops on drugs on my bust should be worth 20 years in jail.

That SALF and some insurance fraud charges should be another 20 years in jail.

Influence pedaling and other miscellaneous Village matters is another 20 years in jail.

Accepting bribes, bid rigging, shake downs should be worth 10 years in jail.

Extortion should be worth 10 years in jail.

I am almost sure we could find some interstate crimes worth 10 years in jail.

100 years in jail, half in a fed pen, half in Joliet......Joliet Jake, but not Jake.

She might get out when she is 160 years old? offer the mayor 50 years and give her a wire.

I'm sure there is a bunch of stuff I have not even herd of, threaten Baker with 20 years in jail and he would squeal but, Mullins quashed investigations of her Police department, by other agency's, so someone might think of Village bonding, but don't forget, no honor amongst thief's.

The next mayor faces the same possible criminal charges.

If she wants to sue me for this, like she is apparently suing others, go ahead, for what telling what I see as the truth and corruption? Maybe a judge other than Scotillo or a attorney general other than Lisa Madigan or Cook County state prosecutor other than Anita Alverz, some one who respects law and order, will arrest her, her dirt bag cops (what else do you call em, drug infested cops, drug dealing cops, lies under oath, gives the courts false reports? Sounds like dirt bags to me), village council, the states attorney of cook county, the other judges, the other mayor, all the village attorneys and the 3500 other judges, lawyers, scholars, academics, politicians? maybe channel 7 will have a film crew (the one she is suing)?

My defense cost me every thing I had, I have no income since my arrest 5 years ago, so why file tax? I got robbed just west of Oklahoma city, filed a report with the Indian chief (was the police chief also?), I have no ID. I have no drivers license, no credit cards but plenty of collection agency's trying to get me. What would Mayor Mullins get from me, some jail time, have some more fun twisting the law with her police department, village hall, village departments? One of these days I should apply and get some government aid. I'm sure Mayor Mullins would like to steal food stamps from some one, if she could.

If I could find a lawyer to sue I would.

accessory, obstructon of justice, criminal conspericy

2009-01-06T20:29:00.000-08:00

Officer Wenrich of the Palatine police, on patrol during arrest, was high on drugs, hallucinating, hammered, staggering around, with guns, flipping out, (self evident, right there, in the report), said at trial, I have no rights.

Wenrich was on drugs at trial testimony (where do cops get drugs, evidence room, cop bar, drug dealer shake down or from the shared Cook County Sheriff sub station on Rand?).

or Wenrich knew 2 time bar president Scotillo was greased by 1 time bar president Tatooles, 3 time mayor Tatooles, 5 time mayor Mullins55 or maybe, do me a favor and I will do you a favor, type of thing.

Judge Scotillo agreed with Wenrich's I had no rights and praised him every which way.

The appellate court agreed with Scotillo, who agreed with Wenrich, I have no rights, and praised Wenrich like no tomorrow.

The appellate court agreed with Scotillo that, defense lawyer 1, Tatooles, was incompetent, un fit to be a lawyer.

There for my 6th constitutional amendment rights were taken from me also, unless the constitution considers a incompetent lawyer a-ok (Scotillo made the call early in the trial, then allowed Tatooles to continue as a incompetent defense lawyer), what about a affirmative defense?

I assume Scotillo likes defendants who have incompetent lawyers, as far as I am concerned this is what you get with a 2 time bar president who is judge, who is above the law.

Officer Hunter siting right next to Wenrich for 2 hours, didn't give a shit, its a fellow Palatine cop, besides, Hunter was probably flying also.

Welcome to

Mullins own police department and her village council.
Tatooles own police department and his own village council.

Mullins and her clan, lack of action, endorsed criminal behavior.

Tatooles pays Mullins police chief $120k, then hires Wenrich's deputy commander Haas, as new police chief. Brown's Chicken veteran.

Mr and Mrs Scotillo's, each 2 term bar presidents, Mrs Scotillo was also news editor for 21 years.

sounds like organized crime, racketeering and intimidation to me, who ever question's a Scotillo is out of a bar, job, banned, jailed, muged or killed.

That is why Defense lawyer 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 plus, 1 retired supreme court justice and the appellate, did not want to butt heads, simply let these cops, continue to do as they please.

I was in my corvette, maybe Wenrich wanted to sell me some of the drugs he was on, because I was not interested, the arrest followed. Nobody asked me if I blew into the machine. I asked Tatooles to review the video's in the interrogation room, at the beginning, before, I knew the fix was in.

Judges must think cops and prosecutors are honest and what ever comes out of their mouth is the holy gospel. The minute they start to think other, is the minute change will take place.

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mayor Mullins endorses no rights for people other than her clan

2009-01-04T07:44:00.000-08:00

Officer Wenrich of the Palatine police, on patrol during arrest, was high on drugs, hallucinating, hammered, staggering around, with guns, flipping out, (self evident, right there, in the report), said at trial, I have no rights.

Wenrich was on drugs at trial testimony (where do cops get drugs, evidence room, cop bar or drug dealer shake down? or from the shared Cook County Sheriff sub station on Rand?).

or Wenrich knew 2 time bar president Scotillo was greased by 1 time bar president Tatooles or 3 time mayor Tatooles or maybe, do me a favor and I will do you a favor, type of thing.

Judge Scotillo agreed with Wenrich's I had no rights and praised him every which way.

The appellate court agreed with Scotillo, who agreed with Wenrich, I have no rights, and praised Wenrich like no tomorrow.

The appellate court agreed with Scotillo that, defense lawyer 1, Tatooles, was incompetent, un fit to be a lawyer.

There for my 6th constitutional amendment rights were taken from me also, unless the constitution considers a incompetent lawyer a-ok (Scotillo made the call early in the trial, then allowed Tatooles to continue as a incompetent lawyer would continue), but what about a affirmative defense?

I assume Scotillo likes defendants who have incompetent lawyers, as far as I am concerned this is what you get with a 2 time bar president who is judge, who is above the law.

Officer Hunter siting right next to Wenrich for 2 hours, didn't give a shit, its a fellow Palatine cop, besides, Hunter was probably flying also.

Welcome to

Mullins own police department and her village council.
Tatooles own police department and his own village council.

Tatooles pays Mullins police chief $120k, then hires Wenrich's deputy commander Haas, as new police chief. Brown's Chicken veterns.

Mr and Mrs Scotillo's, each 2 term bar presidents, Mrs Scotillo was also news editor for 21 years.

sounds like organized crime, racketeering and intimidation to me, who ever question's a Scotillo is out of a bar, job, banned, jailed, muged or killed.

I was in my corvette, maybe Wenrich wanted to sell me some of the drugs he was on, because I was not interested, the arrest followed. Nobody asked me if I blew into the machine. I asked Tatooles to review the video's in the interrogation room, at the beginning, before, I knew the fix was in.

2009-01-02T16:05:00.001-08:00

mayor Mullins cannot be trusted

I sent this to mullins, also to 3500 other people

2009-01-02T16:03:00.000-08:00

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.

2008-12-13T06:45:00.000-08:00

The U.S. criminal code makes aiding and abetting a federal crime itself a crime

see http://judgescotillo.blogspot.com/ Judge Scotillo is up to his eye brows in this dirt, his direct Judge boss Urso, (received a letter about this crap also), along with 1 Illinois supreme court justice (who became a accessory to the cover up the minute he reviewed documents, talked to me and defense lawyer #3, then chose to do nothing).

Who will investigate the mayor? The police chief she hired? Wenrich? Hunter? Baker? or the crooked state police who investigated Drew Peterson and his 2nd wife's murder?

major suburban corruption

2008-12-06T07:51:00.001-08:00

If you want to see major suburban,

corruption,

witness tampering,

dereliction of duty,

racketeering,

obstruction of criminal investigation,

campaign contributions,

village board of nit wits,

mayors surrounded with law suits,

hidden - campaign contributions,

fraud,

happy hour,

bid rigging,

collusion,

cop bar,

discrimination,

accessories after the fact,

pay offs,

judicial misconduct,

US Army Corp of Engineers fines,

Missing $,

cover ups,

Cops high on pull overs,

$2.00 pitchers,

chief's bar,

fabrications,

judicial free pass,

more missing $,

police misconduct,

extortion,

$1.00 shot nights,

Police chief and additional income,

rent free night club on city property,

exclusive contractor,

village bar,

missing federal funds,

consulting fees,

prosecutor misconduct,

volume discount bars,

cops beating drivers on pull overs,

secrete deals,

judge's private bar,

embezzlement,

malfeasance,

cocktails,

a law bar club,

ladies night,

Park district cover up,

no bid contracts,

larceny,

accessory,

council members bar,

perjury,

Brown's Chicken,

taking bribes,

police extracting false confessions,

aid and abetting,

bucket beer nights,

tampering with evidence,

WLS TV reports corruption,

judicial cover up,

exotic vacations,

bar tabs,

promotional fees,

taking hallucinating drugs on patrol,

intimidation,

money laundering,

pole dancing,

mayor quash investigations of her police,

false reports,

money transfers,

Off shore bank accounts

influence peddling,

government grants,

missing government grant money,

a rock .......... yes a rock!

get out of jail cards,

kick backs,

lies,

subverting the truth,

mayor sues own village

shake downs,

mayor sues others with village attorneys

Township cover up,

cops on video at bar on duty,

recklessness,

Fire department cover up,

more missing $,

deception,

pay backs,

tax havens,

obstruction,

secrete bank accounts,

conspiracy,

cop at ATM 5:30 saturday morning

power crazy,

your at the right place, just glance at my blogs, this is real and it's happening now. Next time you get pulled over by a cop or in front of a judge, expect and bet on one or more of the above, if it don't happen, buy a lotto ticket, your lucky day.

Have a cop do a B.A.C. or a urine test before work and after. Watch the whole police department quit...... which might be a good thing, hire newbies.

What is more funny is have cops do testing before testimony................. or a voice analyzer , or a retina scan........ during testimony ...... but, the defendants and witnesses must tell the truth also. point is "truth", just cause a cop is suppose to be honest, that don't mean they are. A lawyer is suppose to be honest, that don't mean they are, same with a judge, a doctor, the governor, congress man, senator, vp or president.

Truth, brings me to this -- I don't believe a 757 plowed into the Pentagon. To me the logical evidence just does not support it. The small hole in the building (compared to the size of a 757) and collateral damage speaks for it's self.

If the government wanted to test the building against a missile strike, I think the American people would have understood and agreed to such a test. We the people, are not as stupid as some may want to believe.
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5 gallon steel buckets are used for tar, we use, when applying tar to plain end concrete pipe (I'm a plumber). Before plastic buckets were around, we put some kerosene (#1) or # 2 in the buckets, light them, burn out the tar we could not scrape out, then use the buckets. Winter time kerosene was used all the time.

Some of you do not recall, but before the barricades that are used today, there were these little round steel lanterns (less than a foot in diameter) that had a wick. Would fill them with kerosene and light em. Set them on the road, all over the construction area. In the morning, put the caps on (fire would go out). At the end of the day fill em up and light em. This was the method of barricades / warning lights for 50 years? Nothing ever melted and these were a lot thicker than a can of beans or bucket of tar.

I do not believe jet fuel (kerosene) melted any thing in the twin towers. Kerosene or jet fuel couldn't even melt a can of beans and I don't care if that can of beans was on fire for 6 months, just aint going to happen.
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These are facts that will never change, just like the lies and corruption in my trial. Maybe cop do it because the county or state government can do it, the count or state does it because cause the federal government can do it.

Endless cycle. This mixture of things, gives us what we have today, and no one will let go.

Is this for the better good, a higher good, for the country? I don't think so.

Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of truthful, honest and good people, all over the place, color, religion, age, u name it. Lets keep it that way, there seems to be a offal lot of wrong doers also, we just need to help em and maybe understand better, to become better neighbors with each other.

2008-11-24T18:16:00.000-08:00

In my blogs, I think I have laid out evidence that I feel implicates Mullins as an accessory, aiding and abetting, facilitating a felony, cover up ........(I'm populating a list off line)

Any one want to contact Todd Stogers? http://toddstroger.blogspot.com/ as a matter of fact, I have to thank Mr Strogers for my blogs. I got nothing against Mr Stogers, seems ok to me. He has a regular personal blog letting blogger know a little about him. I think this is nice. So after sending him some things that were on my mind (let's say another tip of the iceburg), I thought I would make a blog, then I thought I would make another, then another and on and on and on.
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Is Mullins a full time secretary at SALF and part time mayor of Palatine?

Has Mullins used any Palatine resources associated with SALF?
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I would like to know more about the law suite Mullins company (SALF) has against WLS TV
after WLS TV, identified SALF association with interstate fraud which sounds like a criminal activity.

How much in money has the Village, Park District, Township, Police, Fire, Public works or any other governmental agency's or departments that Mullins is connected to given to Ancel, Glink, Diamond, Bush, Dicianni & Krafthefer? http://www.ancelglink.com/index.html

Why is a law firm that deals with municipals, park districts, libraries, fire protection districts, townships, workers comp, be employed by Mullins SALF company to sue WLS TV for slander and defamation?

The news articles below, seem to be true, why is Mullins suing some one or any one for exposing deception, lies, fraud and not limited to corruption?

Is Mullins company (SALF) seeking a out of court settlement payment from Palatine?

Is Mullins company seeking law suite against Palatine?

If so for how much?

How much money has Palatine paid SALF?

The link below is like a grand daddy
http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/save-life-foundation-v-baratz

"The Pledge of Allegiance was said before the start of the meeting"
Rita Mullins, have no idea what this means
this blog is only the tip of the ice burg

Rita Mullins could fire and have arrested, Palatine police officer Wenrich for hallucinating while on patrol during my arrest and force him to apologize to the world for his substance abuse and/or incompetence and deliberately giving a false report and perjured testimony. Fire or have arrested Palatine police officer Hunter for not knowing a hallucinating officer was sitting next to him for about a hour. Fire and have arrested the shift commander for being so dumb as to, not knowing what is going on during his shift. Fire and have arrested the police chief for being apart of this or not knowing about it.

This is like Bollingbrook (re;Drew Peterson) who could not get fired because the cops have dirt on the mayor and village council. How many times did Dew Petersons x-wife's file police reports befor they ended up dead or missing? and nothing. This is called
job security!

Mullins aids in the squash of a Better Government Association and the Chicago Crime Commission investigation into corruption at the Palatine police department
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/print/?id=74260

This trail looks like Interstate fraud to me

2008-11-23T23:12:00.000-08:00

Fraud across across state lines.........is FBI stuff? But maybe she owns them also re; palatine cops, she can hire and fire at her pleasure. Unless they conform to her whims.

She is currently employed as a Director of Government Affairs by the Save-A-Life Foundation (oharenoise.org)

Does Rita know what happened to the $9 million missing from the Heimlich Institute?

Other Palatine employees have tax exempt and/or off shore band account(s). Does Rita have 1 or 2 also?

As far as I can tell there is close to $58k missing out of the $100k from the Miami-Dade venture/donation/grant with Miami Mayor Manny Diaz. ($41,164 is accountable) (Mullins SALF had a desk in the mayors office and there is missing $58k?)

On the SALF tax document below, absent is monies paid to Rita....... Why is this? (blocked out or maybe she let SALF use a lap top computer for $56k)

or

maybe her services are hidden in $450k expenses such as but not limited to independent contractors, promotional and consulting fees

or

Maybe she (Rita Mullins) was awarded a mini-grant for $92k

I got a bunch of questions and it seems like a lot of other people do also.

I hope she gets what she deserves - time in prison!
5. Alice B. Toke-less says:
14 Feb 2007 at 10:05 pm | #

http://medfraud.info/index.html

Rita Mullins is secretary of a medical advisory board that is surrounded in corruption

now

In May 2007, SALF (Mullins)filed suit in Cook County (Illinois) Circuit Court against Baratz, Heimlich, and a Cincinnati blogger named Jason Haap for defamation. The suit alleged they were the TV station’s primary sources and included charges of unspecified economic damages resulting from 11 severed relationships, including Homeland Security, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and Miami: “Save A Life had been working with the City of Miami, had a branch in the Miami mayor’s office, and had been providing LFSA training in Miami-Dade schools…. As a proximate result of defendant’s actions, the City of Miami has terminated its relationship with Save A Life.”
(Miami New Times)

Maybe I will sue Mullins?

ABC 7 report by Chick Goudie 2006

2008-11-23T19:32:00.000-08:00

11/17/06 ABC7 report by Chuck Goudie about the Save A Life Foundation of Schiller Park: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news&id=4770490

The Maneuver

Friday, November 17, 2006 | 10:41 PM

ABC7 I-Team Exclusive

By Chuck Goudie

November 17, 2006 (WLS) -- One of Illinois' highest profile charities teaches the Heimlich maneuver to children while maneuvering the truth to get money from government and big business.

It's called the Save-A-Life Foundation and is known across Illinois as an organization that teaches schoolchildren how to respond in emergencies. For the past few years, Save-A-Life has received millions of dollars in government funds and corporate donations. An ABC7 I-Team investigation has uncovered a series of misleading claims and deceptive credentials that raise doubts about Save-A-Life's integrity, funding and training.

Save-A-Life officials say they have taught the Heimlich maneuver and other first aid techniques to more than 1 million schoolchildren since 1995. They claim to have taught nearly 70,000 children how to save a life in the Chicago Public Schools this year alone.

On the Save-A-Life website, the organization promotes itself with a cartoon character of Schools' CEO Arnie Duncan, who acts as an animated pitchman.

The organization now enlists volunteer paramedics to teach in downstate Illinois, in the Milwaukee and Miami-Dade schools; and now students in Philadelphia and California.

"Our ultimate goal is to make this part of driver's ed so that it becomes unified just as brushing teeth," said Carol Spizzirri, Save-A-Life founder.

Spizzirri is the matriarch of the Save-A-Life Foundation, based in west suburban Schiller Park, and she has captured the attention -- and the funding -- of those who hold government purse strings. For nearly 15 years, to mayors and members of congress, she has represented herself as trained, registered nurse.

Spizzirri says she got her nursing degree in Wisconsin. Currently, Save-A-Life's website and her bio claim, not only that she is an RN, but that she specializes in kidney transplants. The I-Team asked if that is true.

"Not at this time," Spizzirri said. "I no longer have. I haven't registered in a number of years."

According to state officials, the now-defunct Wisconsin college where Spizzirri claims to have received a nursing degree never awarded her a degree of any kind, and government records show she has never been registered as a nurse in either Wisconsin, as she told the I-Team she was, or in Illinois.

"I had a nursing degree and I have worked in a hospital," said Spizzirri.

Officials at the Milwaukee hospital where she claims to have been a transplant nurse say she had a paid job for a couple of years, as a patient care assistant akin to a candy striper.

"Absolutely it's fair game to go after her for her credentials and her alleged story of how she got started in all of this, because if they are incorrect or fraudulent or misrepresented, then how can you believe anything she says after that?" said Dr. Robert Baratz, National Council Against Health Fraud.

The president of the National Council Against Health Fraud, a watchdog organization of medical professionals, says that federal and state funding agencies have been defrauded by Spizzirri's claims that she has a nursing degree and license.

"It's free to the children. We bring this course to schools for free," Spizzirri said.

But it wasn't free to the Chicago Public Schools, where officials say Save-A-Life charged them $50,000 the past two years.

Schools CEO Arnie Duncan says it seems unlikely that Carol Spizzirri's organization could have taught the number of students they claim, and it's not free to the taxpayers, who give Save-A-Life more than $1 million a year through the Homeland Security department, Centers For Disease Control and the State of Illinois.

"If you have an organization that has mostly volunteers, where's the million dollars going?" said Baratz. "It doesn't take a million dollars to print a pamphlet."

Spizzirri pays herself an annual salary of $120,000, according to Save-A-Life records on file with the Illinois attorney general. She travels on a generous expense account while working to obtain additional government funding for expansion of her organization nationally.

Spizzirri repeatedly tells politicians and public this story of her motivation:

"My daughter was coming home from work on Labor Day of '92. She was struck by a hit-and-run, and her arm had been severely injured, and she bled to death before EMS arrived," said Spizzirri.

But even that isn't true, according to police and hospital reports and an inquest by the Lake County coroner. The official record states that 18-year-old Christina Spizzirri was legally drunk at the time of the accident; and that after hosting a drinking party while her mother was vacationing in Florida, the teenager got behind the wheel and flipped her own car.

Police records show there was no hit-and-run, and even though the local police didn't know emergency first aid, the teenager did not die at the scene as Carol Spizzirri contends. Medical records state that Christina died 30 minutes after arriving at the hospital.

I-Team: "It was not a hit and run, was it?"

Spizzirri: "Yes, it was. Oh, my gosh. I got proof of that, absolutely ... I'm done, the interview's over."

After terminating that interview three weeks ago, Spizzirri's spokesperson requested that we e-mail our additional questions. So we asked for information supporting Spizzirri's often repeated story of Christina's death and any proof that Spizzirri has the medical training, licensing and expertise that she claims. They provided the I-Team with nothing.

The Heimlich Method

The Heimlich has become a brand name, like the Band-Aid. Dr. Henry Heimlich claims to have invented the technique in which you stand behind a choking victim, wrap your arms around them and pull sharply on their lower abdomen. Dr. Heimlich is medical advisor for a suburban Chicago charity called the Save-A-Life Foundation. Questions are being raised about both Heimlich and the founder of Save-A-Life, Carol Spizzirri.

The maneuver is so universally known that it is currently seen in a bank commercial which was shown by Dr. Henry Heimlich during a recent speech to the U.S. Conference of Mayors. But the Heimlich hasn't always been the prescribed method of helping someone who is choking.

As a country doctor in the movie Field of Dreams showed, back slaps were for decades the favored way to clear an airway blockage. The I-Team has learned that back slaps are back.

The American Red Cross, the nation's leading first aid organization, no longer supports the use of the Heimlich maneuver as the initial response when someone begins choking. Last spring, in a surprisingly under-publicized change, the Red Cross mandated its instructors to teach several sharp slaps to the back when someone begins choking, which induces them to cough.

"Research has shown that a series of five of each together is the most proven mechanism for releasing obstructed items from conscious children and adults," said Martha Dittmar, American Red Cross.

The Red Cross recommends Heimlich's abdominal thrust only if back slaps fail. That is the opposite of what the Save-A-Life Foundation continues to teach to thousands of school children in Chicago and several other states.

"We have trained this year alone, in the Chicago Public Schools alone, 67,000 children," said Carol Spizzirri, Save-A-Life Foundation.

Spizzirri is the founder of Save-A-Life. She claims to have a nursing degree and be a registered nurse, but state officials say their records show that neither is true. When the I-Team challenged her qualifications, Spizzirri walked out on our interview and has since declined numerous offers to supply evidence of her medical training and licensing.

A Spizzirri spokesman did e-mail a statement fully supporting the Heimlich method, which is hardly surprising, because Spizzirri enlisted Dr. Henry Heimlich as the medical advisor of Save-A-Life.

Heimlich has rejected the Red Cross' downgrading of his maneuver for choking and continues urging that it be used for other things as well, including drowning.

"The Heimlich maneuver can drive the water out. The Heimlich maneuver will stop an asthma attack," said Heimlich.

Heimlich also urges the maneuver be used on cystic fibrosis victims, all claims that have stunned the medical community and major medical organizations, which warn that the use of the Heimlich maneuver in those situations could be fatal.

The American Lung Association asked Chicago respiratory expert Dr. John Shannon to speak with us.

"It shouldn't be used at all in asthma in cystic fibrosis or any chronic inflation disorder in the lung passages," said Dr. John Shannon, Stroger Cook County Hospital ."There is a good possibility of making a person with asthma substantially worse."

Dr. Heimlich has spent his career in Cincinnati where the maneuver was introduced and promoted more than 30 years ago.

The I-Team visited the impressive-sounding Heimlich Institute, which exists to promote Heimlich and his maneuver, on the accounting floor of a Cincinnati office. We found the office, with no one in it, the phone answered by a machine.

The hospital that houses Heimlich's so-called Institute did not answer the I-Team's numerous requests for information about its relationship with Dr. Heimlich.

The 86-year-old Heimlich asked the I-Team for a list of questions about his relationship with Save-A-Life and the downgrading of his maneuver by the Red Cross. Chuck Goudie personally delivered the letter to his Cincinnati condo and handed it to his wife. Heimlich has since refused a television interview.

A public relations firm sent the I-Team a statement in which Heimlich says he became involved in Save-A-Life because he admired its mission and that his choking maneuver has saved thousands of lives.

Heimlich says he hasn't actually practiced medicine for more than 30 years since leaving the Jewish hospital here where he was chief of surgery. Neither the hospital nor Heimlich would disclose why they parted. He no longer has a medical license, but he and the Save-A-Life Foundation where he is medical advisor continue to advocate a wider use of the maneuver for drowning and asthma.

"His methods he is espousing have never been proven medically. There have never been controlled studies to show any of them work," said Robert Baratz, National Council Against Health Fraud.

In a press release Friday, the Save-A-Life Foundation said, in part, that it "stands by its excellent reputation as provider of first aid skills training and a good steward of the monies entrusted to us by taxpayers and private donors."

Over the past 10 years, Save-A-Life says, it has "carefully documented its training of hundreds of thousands of children K through 12, with many accounts of individual lives saved as a result.

"In addition, Save-A-Life says it has been at the forefront of efforts to protect the Good Samaritan law and introduced legislation, subsequently passed by the Illinois senate, to improve public safety by requiring all first responders receive training."

So there is no confusion, the Save-A-Life Foundation that we are investigating, is not connected to "Operation Save-A-Life," which is a fire and carbon monoxide safety effort by the Chicago Fire Department and ABC7.

ABC 7 report by Chick Goudie 2007

2008-11-23T13:08:00.000-08:00

5/31/07 ABC7 report: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news&id=5354419

Thursday, May 31, 2007 | 6:51 AM

By Chuck Goudie

May 30, 2007 (WLS) -- New details emerge about the embattled Illinois charity The Save-A-Life Foundation -- and why it may be losing funding and political support.

The I-Team investigation of Save-A-Life last year uncovered a founder who fabricated her medical credentials. Now we've learned that Save-A-Life's primary government bankroll appears to be drying up.

The Save-A-Life Foundation claims its instructors have taught first aid skills to more than 2 million school children in Illinois and several other states the past decade. Since 2001, Save-A-Life has received millions of dollars in state and federal funding, and has listed powerful State Senate President Emil Jones as one of its major backers.

"I've never supported it funding-wise," Jones said.

And Jones says the charity is not currently slated to receive money in next year's state budget. The apparent cut-off of government funds follows I-Team disclosures about Save-A-Life founder Carol Spizzirri.

For years, while soliciting government funding, Spizzirri claimed to be a kidney transplant nurse and an RN. The I-Team's investigation found that the now-defunct college she attended never awarded her a degree of any kind; and government records show she has never been a registered nurse in either Wisconsin, as she told the I-Team, or in Illinois. During questioning last November, Spizzirri walked out of our meeting and declined to be interviewed for this report.

Over the past few years in Springfield, State Senator Donne Trotter has been the primary sponsor of funding for Save-A-Life in the Illinois budget, last year $700,000 in taxpayer funds and another $88,000 in grant money.

"I am concerned if in fact that she is not spending the taxpayer dollars we have entrusted in her to be spent correctly," said Trotter.

The South Side senator says that Illinois' auditor general would investigate how Save-A-Life has spent state money and fulfilled state contracts before any consideration is given to future funding.

"To me, the jury is still out, because I haven't seen all the results," said Trotter.

Both senators Trotter and Jones have been given awards by Save-A-Life, Jones for saving someone from choking in a Springfield restaurant. Since then, Jones says he has been wrongly listed as Save-A-Life's "Illinois spokesman" and that he has never even helped fund the group.

"What do you mean support? I saved a woman's life down here in Springfield and this group came together, and they want to honor me for the woman choking to death in the Globe restaurant. Remember that?" Jones said.

In a letter, Jones writes that "issues and questions have been raised in the past year regarding SALF," and he "strongly encourages the foundation to answer those questions." He wrote the letter to Chicago woman Julia Rickert after receiving her complaint about Save-A-Life's use of state funds. Rickert worked at Save-A-Life's Schiller Park headquarters in late February as a temporary employee.

"I was told by the temp agency that Save-a-Life was looking for somebody to do proofreading, to proofread their instruction manual, a 600 page manual," said Rickert.

Rickert says she was told her assignment was to find misspellings in a new first responder's manual being prepared for it's instructors, but she says her supervisor had something else in mind.

"He never mentioned proofreading at all. He said their manual needed to be edited. They wanted it rewritten on a high school level. They wanted me to rewrite the entire book line by line," said Rickert said.

A Save-A-Life spokesman confirms to ABC7 that temp workers typed the copyrighted book into their system then hired Rickert as a temp who was told to rewrite it. The charity contends it was to be a first draft for a new training curriculum, even though Rickert had no expertise in emergency response.

"I have proofreading experience but not technical writing experience and no medical background," said Rickert.

Save-A-Life officials say when the year-long project is finished, it will be reviewed by "leading local and national EMS stakeholders and our intellectual property attorney," and then "certified by the Illinois Department of Public Health."

Rickert has contacted the publisher of the book she was told to rewrite. The publisher declined to discuss with ABC7 what he called their "legal investigation." And she has filed a complaint with the Illinois inspector general asking that Save-A-Life be investigated. Save-A-Life pledges to happily "cooperate with an investigation by responsible parties to dispel these baseless allegations."

Save-A-Life filed a defamation lawsuit this month against a doctor and two other men who have publicly criticized the charity. In the suit, Save-A-Life says the most serious allegations against them were "false, inflammatory and defamatory." Charity officials claim they have "lost business opportunities," funding and have had to spend money to repair damage to their reputation.

Save-A-Life may be losing funding from the Chicago Public Schools as well. A CPS official says they "are scrutinizing every expense" and may not have the budget to help out Save-A-Life as they have in recent years.

Rita Mullins endorses and promotes Carol Spizzirri, SALF

2008-11-23T12:39:00.000-08:00

See page 20 article by Rita Mullins about the Save A Life Foundation: http://www.iml.org/cnt/files/review_pdf/Review%2002-2001.pdf

Save A Life Foundation

By RITA MULLINS, Mayor of Palatine, and IRV BOCK, Mayor of Hanover Park

As mayors and village presidents, we have the obligation to
ensure the health, safety and well-being of our residents - including
our young people. That is why we have become involved in
an organization we feel helps fulfill that obligation.
The Save A Life Foundation (SALF) came into existence
through the efforts of Carol Spizzirri, founder, mother and nurse
who, on Labor Day 1992, lost her child, Christina, to a fatal hit and-
run car accident. Christina’s life might have been saved had
the first persons who arrived on the scene given prompt first aid
until the professionals arrived. Since that time, Carol has channeled
her grief by establishing the Save A Life Foundation, devoting
herself and requesting others to get involved in the process of
educating people in these most basic skills. SALF is a not-forprofit
organization dedicated to the promotion and education of
life supporting first aid.

Through Carol’s efforts, the Foundation was able to have a
law passed in Illinois mandating first aid and CPR training for all
new police and firefighters. With the assistance of Senator
Richard Durbin (D-IL), a federal appropriation was sponsored and
passed by President Clinton, providing funds for First Aid and
CPR training for all police and emergency personnel nationwide.
SALF has grown to include a team of dedicated volunteers
who promote its life-saving mission. Also, the Foundation is very
fortunate to have an internationally-recognized panel of experts
serving on its Medical Advisory Board, such as Dr. Henry
Heimlich, father of the Heimlich maneuver and head of the
Heimlich Institute, Dr. Peter Safar, developer of Cardio
Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and the head of the Safar
Research Center in Pittsburgh, and Dr. Stanley Zydlo, father of
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and SALF’s Medical
Director.

Life is full of surprises. Some of them are pleasant and others
are not. When we suddenly find ourselves face to face with a
crisis, it is important to know what to do - either fix the problem,
or keep it from getting worse. In our society, it seems all too often
people turn away when they see someone in trouble, or someone
suddenly becoming ill or injured. Many of us are simply afraid to
help because of fear being sued, contracting a disease or making
the situation worse because of a lack of knowledge.

The intent of the Save A Life Foundation program is to deliver
the most important lifesaving information in a simple, concise
format designed to fit into our busy lives. The program will teach
those taking the course just what they need to know.
SALF has focused on the need of creating a critical mass of
trained children in Life Supporting First Aid skills. Working with
EMS/Fire Departments and schools, SALF has trained more than
125,000 children in the Chicago school district and became part of
Governor George Ryan’s budget - appropriating funds to teach all
school children throughout the state of Illinois in first aid and
CPR.

SALF has experienced tremendous growth in the last two
years. From teaching a simple basic first aid program to children,
SALF’s curriculum now consists of four comprehensive training
programs geared to people of all ages. The program consists of
Save A Life for Kids, Bystander Basics, Bystander Advanced
(OSHA, Daycare Providers) and Bystander Basics Automatic
External Defibrillation.

Our audience has grown from school children to businesses of
all sizes. SALF has trained employees from companies such as
Lead Core and U.S. Steel and has been brought in to teach the
Chicago Police Department. SALF will also be working with the
Federal Aviation Administration in training employees and developing
standards for the aviation industry.

SALF’s training programs are as follows:

Save A Life for Kids is a one-hour program that teaches elementary
school children from kindergarten through eight grade.
Children learn skills such as scene safety, contacting Emergency
Medical Services, bleed control, opening an airway, early heart
attack care, Heimlich maneuver and rescue breathing.

Bystander Basic is a two-hour program geared for young
adults age 13 and older, which teaches all the above as well as
CPR.

Bystander Basics Advanced is a three-hour program that
meets OSHA standards, expands upon these skills by also teaching
C-Spine control, shock management, critical burn management,
initial wound care, and how to recognize various emergencies
and prioritize multiple casualty situations.
Bystander Basic A.E.D. is a one-hour program intended for
adults 18 and over that includes training in sudden death, the function
of the heart and circulatory system and how and when to use
an automatic external defibrillator.

The Save A Life Foundation has several current programs. These are:

1. Life Saving Skills for School Bus Drivers and School
Administrators. Through a joint effort with the Illinois State
Board of Education and the Secretary of State, SALF has proceeded
with the plans for a program to train the 23,000 Illinois school
bus drivers with basic hands-on life supporting first aid, including
CPR.

2. Blue Angels Program. A partnership with the Illinois
Criminal Justice Information Authority, Chicago Police
Department, Office of the Superintendent of the Chicago Police,
and the Police Academy to train police officers with EMS credentials
to become in-house instructors for fellow officers in their
police departments. These officers will also outreach their communities
by providing training in life saving skills to local schools.

3. Creation of Branch Offices. With an eye on the future,
SALF negotiated a partnership and established a regional training
site at Saint John’s Hospital in Springfield. This was the first step
in marketing our educational training into communities inadequately
served by emergency medical services. Recently, at the
National Conference of State Legislatures in Chicago, several
states, most notably Connecticut, Texas and North Carolina,
approached SALF about establishing branch offices in their states.
What started as a tragedy for one woman has become a
healthy, thriving and important organization making a difference
and facing the challenge of making our society a better place for
all.

Most often, the people that you will be called upon to help are
those we spend the most time with, our family, neighbors, and
friends. This program will prepare your residents to recognize
emergencies and teach them the right way to deal with emergencies.
As mayors, we have an opportunity to assist in getting the
word out to all our residents about the importance of these programs.
The Save A Life Foundation will train the trainers for you.
Men and women in your Police, Fire and Public Works departments
start the core groups which consist of school children,
social service clubs, church groups, etc.
Let’s work together to support the philosophy of the Save A
Life Foundation.

For further information, please contact Carol Spizzirri of the
Save A Life Foundation at 847-928-9683 or fax inquiries to 847-
928-9684.

2008-11-23T12:07:00.009-08:00

11/17/06 ABC7 report by Chuck Goudie about the Save A Life Foundation of Schiller Park: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news&id=4770490

5/31/07 ABC7 report: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news&id=5354419

See page 20 article by Rita Mullins about the Save A Life Foundation: http://www.iml.org/cnt/files/review_pdf/Review%2002-2001.pdf

Two years after the ABC7 report, Rita Mullins is listed as Corporate Secretary of the Save A Life Foundation

a. http://www.salf.org/our_foundation/boards.aspx

b. http://www.salf.org/media/documents/AnnualReport2007_2008.pdf (Page 2)

A Minnesota publication "MNPUBLIUS"

2008-11-23T12:07:00.007-08:00

http://mnpublius.com/2008/10/colemans-strange-save-a-life-foundation-connections/

Coleman’s Strange Save A Life Foundation Connections

Aaron Landry

Published on October 3, 2008 at 3:30 pm

, filed in MN 2008: Senate

. Tags: Norm Coleman.

The more I look into Norm Coleman’s connections with the Save A Life Foundation (SALF), the more curious I get. Last week, Scott Wente in the Detroit Lakes Tribune had an interesting commentary:

Take the example of a recent news tip about little-known legislation authored two years ago by U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman. The Minnesota Republican wanted to spend $40 million to help teach children basic first aid.

…

An emergency training organization with a controversial leader claimed it sought the legislation, had Coleman’s support and expected to reap funding from the program. That organization, Save A Life Foundation, operates out of Illinois and while it administers training in a number of states, has little affiliation with Minnesota.

Additionally, there was no detailed explanation for why the Coleman-backed program deemed important enough to pass Congress never got off the ground. And, perhaps most interesting to taxpayers, it was not clear whether Coleman or federal officials worked to prevent Save A Life from getting public money once it became embroiled in controversy months later.

It’s bizarre because Save A Life’s head, Carol Spizzirri, is a liar about her bio:

Spizzirri says she got her nursing degree in Wisconsin. Currently, Save-A-Life’s website and her bio claim, not only that she is an RN, but that she specializes in kidney transplants. The I-Team asked if that is true.

“Not at this time,” Spizzirri said. “I no longer have. I haven’t registered in a number of years.”

According to state officials, the now-defunct Wisconsin college where Spizzirri claims to have received a nursing degree never awarded her a degree of any kind, and government records show she has never been registered as a nurse in either Wisconsin, as she told the I-Team she was, or in Illinois.

There’s a lot more after the jump…

She’s also a liar about the pricing of what Save A Life does:

The president of the National Council Against Health Fraud, a watchdog organization of medical professionals, says that federal and state funding agencies have been defrauded by Spizzirri’s claims that she has a nursing degree and license.

“It’s free to the children. We bring this course to schools for free,” Spizzirri said.

But it wasn’t free to the Chicago Public Schools, where officials say Save-A-Life charged them $50,000 the past two years.

Schools CEO Arnie Duncan says it seems unlikely that Carol Spizzirri’s organization could have taught the number of students they claim, and it’s not free to the taxpayers, who give Save-A-Life more than $1 million a year through the Homeland Security department, Centers For Disease Control and the State of Illinois.

“If you have an organization that has mostly volunteers, where’s the million dollars going?” said Baratz. “It doesn’t take a million dollars to print a pamphlet.”

She’s also a liar about her motivation for the organization:

“My daughter was coming home from work on Labor Day of ‘92. She was struck by a hit-and-run, and her arm had been severely injured, and she bled to death before EMS arrived,” said Spizzirri.

But even that isn’t true, according to police and hospital reports and an inquest by the Lake County coroner. The official record states that 18-year-old Christina Spizzirri was legally drunk at the time of the accident; and that after hosting a drinking party while her mother was vacationing in Florida, the teenager got behind the wheel and flipped her own car.

Police records show there was no hit-and-run, and even though the local police didn’t know emergency first aid, the teenager did not die at the scene as Carol Spizzirri contends. Medical records state that Christina died 30 minutes after arriving at the hospital.

I-Team: “It was not a hit and run, was it?”

Spizzirri: “Yes, it was. Oh, my gosh. I got proof of that, absolutely … I’m done, the interview’s over.”

On the television version of the interview, she literally took off her microphone and left the room.

Why was Norm Coleman working to get this organization $40 Million? I’m not sure, but Carol Spizzirri is tight with the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a group that is very tight with Norm Coleman.

The bill Coleman introduced was called the Community Response System Initiative (CRSI) Act of 2006, which contained authorization for ”$10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2010 to carry out [the] Act.”

An annual report seems to confirm that the money was dedicated to SALF:

Earlier this year, the U.S. Conference of Mayors adopted the Community Response Systems Initiative (CRSI) Resolution, named in honor of Christina Spizzirri, committing their support to SALF as a foundation for emergency preparing their communities. Thereafter U.S. Senator Norm Coleman (MN), sponsored the “CRSI ACT” to assist in this initiative.

Scott Wente’s commentary raises a few questions:

— Did Coleman author the legislation with the foundation in mind?

I would say most certainly so.

— Since lawmakers like to talk about how they help their constituents, did Coleman believe Minnesota children could benefit from the legislation?

I would strongly doubt that, although embattled Burnsville mayor Elizabeth B. Kautz is part of the leadership of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and has met with Spizzirri. That’s about it, though.

— Did Coleman or federal officials make sure Save A Life did not get federal funds after news reports suggested the group’s leadership had made false claims? Certainly that itself would be newsworthy, particularly given the public’s interest in congressional spending.

Norm Coleman doing oversight? Ha ha ha. In fact, the Save A Life Foundation website still has a ”Affiliate of Citizen Corps” logo at the top, implying they have good standing with the Department of Homeland Security.

The good news is that Coleman’s Act died before reaching committee. But why was he trying to get a $40 Million earmark for a shady Illinois non-profit in the first place?

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1 1 IoannesMagnumus
October 3, 2008 at 8:27 pm

Wow, Elizabeth Kautz (Mayor of Burnsville for about the next 20 minutes and the next grand poo-bah of the US Conference of Mayors) is also in that picture. Now that Burnsville is turning bluer, this could be yet another nail in Mayor Kautz’s coffin.
2 2 Chunky Monkey
October 4, 2008 at 5:10 pm

>The bill Coleman introduced was called the Community Response System >Initiative (CRSI) Act of 2006

Coleman introduced the $40 million CRSI Act on June 16, 2006. Here’s a funny coincidence from the previous week:

http://www.usmayors.org/74thAnnualMeeting/resolutions/74thProposedResolutions.pdf
PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS, 74TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF MAYORS, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JUNE 2–6, 2006

Resolution No.17 (page 36)

COMMUNITY RESPONSE SYSTEM INITIATIVE

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that The United States Conference of Mayors urges Mayors to form a Community Response System Initiative or “CRSI” Committee;

Submitted By:
The Honorable Rita L. Mullins, Mayor of Palatine
The Honorable Marty Blum, Mayor of Santa Barbara
The Honorable Manuel A. Diaz, Mayor of Miami
The Honorable Ross Ferraro, Mayor of Carol Stream
The Honorable Patrick Henry Hays, Mayor of North Little Rock
THE HONORABLE ELIZABETH B. KAUTZ, MAYOR OF BURNSVILLE
The Honorable Irma L. Anderson, Mayor of Richmond, CA
The Honorable Donald L. Plusquellic, Mayor of Akron

###

Here’s another funny coincidence. This page on the Save A Life Foundation’s website calls it *their* resolution. The page also feature photos of John McCain and FEMA chief David Paulison with Save A Life president Carol Spizzirri.

“SALF’s Resolution Passes at US Conference of Mayors Meeting in Las Vegas
Community Response Committees to be Created in Cities Nationwide, June 08, 2006”: http://www.salf.org/media/news/2006_06/2006_06_08.html
3 3 Happy Kyne
October 6, 2008 at 10:17 am

Aaron Landry: ‘In fact, the Save A Life Foundation website still has a “Affiliate of Citizen Corps” logo at the top, implying they have good standing with the Department of Homeland Security.’

According to this 9/30/08 Daily Koz diary by The Big E, the Save A Life Foundation was invited to the White House last month and to receive praise from President Bush: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/30/234447/789/110/616210

Hey Aaron, the guest list must be public information. Would you find out if the fake nurse attended and share the results here?

Way to go, Homeland Security! Way to go, Norm! Way to go, Mayor Kautz!
4 4 South of the Riverian
November 5, 2008 at 12:41 pm

Kautz is Republican — in a sense. She is very fiscally conservative and maintains funds in bread and butter, brick and mortar. Which is why Bville’s infrastructure is pristine. However she is very eager to fund initiatives outside the realm of conservatism. Youth (teen center, programs, etc) and health prevention for example are generally Democratic causes that are now what Burnsville is well known for. She is also big on redevelopment. Bville is still expanding its medical campuses, building office towers, a performing arts center, and 5-10 year downtown urban redevelopment project — all very expensive endeavors to the city too. Yet the city still rates the lowest in property taxes and the city budget needs no slash and burn. Obviously something works with her style. Can we blame her for so many re-elections?
1 mike mars
November 24, 2008 at 12:06 pm

copy of what I sent to palatine and inverness,

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.

Cincinnati post

2008-11-23T12:07:00.005-08:00

SALF Retires Dr. Henry Heimlich

Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati

The Save A Life Foundation (SALF) recently came under attack when Chicago’s Chuck Goudie mounted this two part investigative report in November, 2006. The report pursued Carol Spizzirri, founder of SALF—reporting that her credentials appear to be faked, that the story she tells about her own daughter’s death appears to be fabricated, and that some of the lifesaving techniques her organization teaches school children have been discredited by the medical establishment. Specifically, SALF was helping push the Dr. Henry Heimlich medical agenda—and Heimlich was a member of the SALF board.

In a statement issued yesterday, SALF announced that they were retiring Heimlich from his position on their board:

On January 4, the Save A Life Foundation Executive Board of Directors announced its decision to retire SALF’s affiliation with Dr. Henry Heimlich, from its Medical Advisory Board, effective immediately. The Executive Board has initiated this action to allow Dr. Heimlich to focus on personal matters that would prevent him from serving as an effective representative of SALF’s mission, goals and objectives.”....Since its inception in 1993, SALF has taught more than one million children in Life Sustaining First Aid skills including, scene safety, bleed control, rescue breathing, opening an airway, CPR, and abdominal thrust.

Notice that last moniker? “Abdominal thrust.” Not only has SALF “retired” Henry Heimlich, they have also dropped his brand-name. Also notice that Heimlich did not initiate the split from SALF—the board “initiated this action to allow Dr. Heimlich to focus on personal matters that would prevent him from serving as an effective representative of SALF’s mission, goals and objectives.” One must wonder what kind of personal matters might prevent him from pursuing SALF’s mission.

Consider this excerpt from Part 2 of Chuck Goudie’s investigative work given this new context of SALF retiring Heimlich from his advisory position:

The Red Cross recommends Heimlich’s abdominal thrust only if back slaps fail. That is the opposite of what the Save-A-Life Foundation continues to teach to thousands of school children in Chicago and several other states.

“We have trained this year alone, in the Chicago Public Schools alone, 67,000 children,” said Carol Spizzirri, Save-A-Life Foundation.

Spizzirri is the founder of Save-A-Life. She claims to have a nursing degree and be a registered nurse, but state officials say their records show that neither is true. When the I-Team challenged her qualifications, Spizzirri walked out on our interview and has since declined numerous offers to supply evidence of her medical training and licensing.

A Spizzirri spokesman did e-mail a statement fully supporting the Heimlich method, which is hardly surprising, because Spizzirri enlisted Dr. Henry Heimlich as the medical advisor of Save-A-Life.

Heimlich has rejected the Red Cross’ downgrading of his maneuver for choking and continues urging that it be used for other things as well, including drowning.

“The Heimlich maneuver can drive the water out. The Heimlich maneuver will stop an asthma attack,” said Heimlich.

Heimlich also urges the maneuver be used on cystic fibrosis victims, all claims that have stunned the medical community and major medical organizations, which warn that the use of the Heimlich maneuver in those situations could be fatal.

The American Lung Association asked Chicago respiratory expert Dr. John Shannon to speak with us.

“It shouldn’t be used at all in asthma in cystic fibrosis or any chronic inflation disorder in the lung passages,” said Dr. John Shannon, Stroger Cook County Hospital ."There is a good possibility of making a person with asthma substantially worse.”

Did Carol Spizzirri know how controversial Henry Heimlich’s medical theories were when they first linked together? Did Spizzirri know she was teaching such controversial methods to schoolchildren? Or, did SALF only learn the truth when Chuck Goudie mounted his report? Did SALF retire Heimlich because his medical advice is unsound? What “personal matters” would stop Heimlich from advising an organization on how to save lives?

The recent announcement from SALF catalyzes more questions than it answers.

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1. Christopher P. Fanny says:
09 Jan 2007 at 11:04 am | #

Quite a season for the Heimlichs. Dr. Hank gets “retired” by this organization and Phil got “retired” by the electorate!
2. Wandering Mind says:
09 Jan 2007 at 11:05 am | #

So just how do you “retire” an affiliation? Don’t you sever or break an affiliation? Don’t you retire when it is voluntary? Strange choice of words.
3. Renee says:
09 Jan 2007 at 11:08 am | #

Another “proof” that the Cincinnati media is IGNORING this entire mess.
How much more does there have to be before someone picks up on this disaster? When is the Enquirer going to publish a correction to their story? When is the broadcast media going to do something like Chuckie did? The story is there for the picking.
And with Phil still on the Board of the Institute and now unemployed, I bet there is more to the story that we don’t know about.
4. Coconutnoodle says:
13 Feb 2007 at 04:38 pm | #

I was so happy to hear about this! I used to work for SALF, and I always thought something was fishy. She would constantly be gone on “business trips”, and they were for weeks at a time. From experience, I know that business trips are usually for 1-2 days, not weeks. They would always seem to be to “plush” locations - Florida, California, etc.. Plus, she would always bring her constant companion, Rita Mullins, the Mayor of Palatine.

Carol would always be dressed to the hilt, everything was top of the line, right down to her designer bags. You would think that a founder of an organization would be humble, and not dress like she did. It just looks bad. She was always complaining that she never got enough money from the government “for her organization.” Hmmm… I think the organization she used to speak of was her own pocket.

She has an exceedingly psycho personality. Carol would be nice one moment, then snap at everyone the next. Everyone that worked there thought Carol was bi-polar. Her daughter Ciprina, who used to work there with us, even stated that her mother should be on medication. Carol even went as far as firing a girl that worked there with us because she didn’t invite her to the wedding. With a temperament like that, who would want her at any wedding?

I hope she gets what she deserves - time in prison!
5. Alice B. Toke-less says:
14 Feb 2007 at 10:05 pm | #

They would always seem to be to “plush” locations - Florida, California, etc.. Plus, she would always bring her constant companion, Rita Mullins, the Mayor of Palatine...Everyone that worked there thought Carol was bi-polar.

Bi-polar? With all those long trips with her constant companion, sounds like she’s also bi-something else.
6. anon says:
15 Feb 2007 at 09:52 am | #

Attn: Coconutnoodle and others with information about SALF and Carol Spizzirri

Suggested contacts:

Chuck Goudie, ABC News Chicago, did the recent exposes on Spizzirri and on the Heimlich Institute: (312)650-7777

Dr. Robert Baratz, president of the National Council Against Health Fraud, was featured in Goudie’s reports. He may also be interested in follow-up information about SALF or Heimlich. Click here for contact info.
7. doodle says:
01 Jun 2007 at 10:12 am | #

I would LOVE an update on this situation.
8. toronto wedding says:
22 May 2008 at 12:17 am | #

great post! thanks for sharing!

more on the $40 million deal - Minnesota democratic farmer labor party news letter

2008-11-23T12:07:00.003-08:00

http://www.dfl.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={BB64F6EA-94CE-43DA-93B9-B26FF9EFFE0B}&DE={9CBD6B9B-589C-498A-A440-8C40AB43FEE4}

DFL Party: In Case You Missed It: Coleman Connection to Shady
Non-Profit Highlighted

M E M O R A N D U M

TO: Media, Interested Parties

FROM: Minnesota DFL Party

DATE: September 26, 2008

RE: In Case You Missed It: Coleman Connection to Shady
Non-Profit Highlighted; Coleman Campaign Defensive

A Forum Communications article published today in the Detroit
Lakes Tribune highlights Senator Norm Coleman’s exceptional
involvement in winning authorization for a $40-million grant to a
shady foundation that supposedly taught children first-aid procedures.

In September 2006, Senator Coleman was the sole sponsor of
a bill to spend $10 million dollars a year over four years to teach
children the Heimlich maneuver. The intended recipient of the
money was not a Minnesota-based non-profit, but the Save-A-Life
Foundation of Chicago. Coleman’s bill was later folded into a bill
to fund the Department of Homeland Security; funds were
authorized but not appropriated.

A November 2006 exclusive report by WLS-TV, ABC7 Chicago,
pointed out that while the Save-A-Life Foundation has “received
millions of dollars in government funds and corporate donations,
” their success is based in “a series of misleading claims and
deceptive credentials that raise doubts about Save-A-Life’s
integrity, funding and training.” The report suggested that
Save-A-Life could not possibly have spent the taxpayer money
that it received on actually promoting child safety. The report
also noted that the foundation’s founder paid herself a $120,000
salary and exaggerated or fabricated claims about her background.

Senator Coleman’s office today was defensive about Coleman’s
involvement with the Save-A-Life Foundation, which honored
Coleman in 2008. But questions remain, including:

Why did Coleman go to such lengths to assist a
non-Minnesota non-profit?
What did Coleman know about Save-A-Life’s questionable
practices or the background of its founder Carol Spirrizzi?
If Senator Coleman is the watchdog for taxpayers’ money
that he claims to be, how did he miss this scandal?

Today’s article concludes by saying that while Coleman’s office denies
any impropriety, “it’s hard for the public to decide that when left with so
many unanswered questions.”

http://www.dl-online.com/articles/index.cfm?id=38311

Commentary: More questions than answers over odd
Coleman bill
Scott Wente, St. Paul Bureau
DL-Online - 09/26/2008

ST. PAUL -- In the world of politics, the public often needs to hear
straight from government officials involved before understanding
and forming an opinion on a particular issue.

Silence can breed skepticism, sometimes unwarranted.

Take the example of a recent news tip about little-known legislation
authored two years ago by U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman. The Minnesota
Republican wanted to spend $40 million to help teach children basic
first aid.

“This legislation gives us the opportunity to support an initiative
that can truly pay dividends down the road by giving the American
people the training and tools to help other citizens in times of
emergencies,” Coleman wrote in 2006, after a streamlined version
of his proposal – without funding attached – passed as part of a
Department of Homeland Security bill.

On its surface, the episode hardly deserves a skeptical look: A
lawmaker proposes using tax dollars to fund organizations that
teach first aid to youth. And the program did not get started
because Homeland Security officials said Congress did not
provide needed funds.

Supposedly, that was the end of it. The feds and Coleman moved
on to other pressing matters.

Yet, reporting yielded interesting facts. An emergency training
organization with a controversial leader claimed it sought the
legislation, had Coleman’s support and expected to reap funding
from the program. That organization, Save A Life Foundation,
operates out of Illinois and while it administers training in a number
of states, has little affiliation with Minnesota.

Additionally, there was no detailed explanation for why the
Coleman-backed program deemed important enough to pass
Congress never got off the ground. And, perhaps most interesting
to taxpayers, it was not clear whether Coleman or federal officials
worked to prevent Save A Life from getting public money once it
became embroiled in controversy months later.

Calls were made, including to the foundation, Homeland Security
officials and Coleman’s office. Some questions came to mind, for
which the answers might have promptly dispelled any speculation
that something strange had occurred:

-- Did Coleman author the legislation with the foundation in mind?

-- Since lawmakers like to talk about how they help their
constituents, did Coleman believe Minnesota children could benefit
from the legislation?

-- Did Coleman or federal officials make sure Save A Life did not get
federal funds after news reports suggested the group’s leadership had
made false claims? Certainly that itself would be newsworthy,
particularly given the public’s interest in congressional spending.

Homeland Security officials responded to an initial inquiry, but
clammed up when asked about Save A Life Foundation. There was
nothing more to discuss, they said.

The foundation’s leader, Carol Spizzirri, would not return repeated calls.

Even the office of Coleman's Democratic opponent, Al Franken, had heard
of Save A Life Foundation but refused to talk about the issue.

Surely Coleman, a Republican locked in a fierce re-election battle, would
be willing to explain the issue.

The senator’s press secretary, LeRoy Coleman (no relation to the senator),
said the proposed program was benign and, as happens occasionally, just
never got off the ground. He said liberals were trying to smear Coleman by
suggesting a connection between the senator and the controversial
Save A Life Foundation.

The spokesman would not grant an interview with Coleman, arguing there
was no legitimate story because nothing unusual happened.

That may be, but it’s hard for the public to decide that when left with so
many unanswered questions.

Coleman’s Questionable Involvement with the Save-A-Life
Foundation

2006: COLEMAN INTRODUCED LEGISLATION FOR BASIC
FIRST AID EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN

2006: Coleman Solely Sponsored Legislation To Fund
Child Safety Training Added To Homeland Security
Appropriations Bill. In 2006, Senator Coleman was the sole
sponsor of the Community Response System Initiative Act of
2006. According to a press release from Coleman’s Senate
office, "The Homeland Security Appropriations bill also includes
legislation authored by Senator Coleman to educate the public
on emergency preparedness. The Community Response
System Initiative Act of 2006 authorizes funding to teach children
(K-12) age appropriate basic hands-on Life Supporting First Aid,
which includes training in CPR, the Heimlich maneuver, and
blood borne and bio hazardous precautions. 'Part of any
comprehensive emergency preparedness plan must include
educating the public on how to prepare for and react in an
emergency situation,' Coleman added. 'This legislation gives us
the opportunity to support an initiative that can truly pay
dividends down the road by giving the American people the
training and tools to help other citizens in times of emergencies.'"
[Coleman Press Release, 9/26/06]

· Amendment Would Allow DHR To “Enter Into An Agreement
With An Organization Which Shall Provide Funds” For
Emergency Response Education And Training To Children.
According to the text of the bill’s introduction, S. 3533: “Directs
the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
acting through the Chief Medical Officer, to enter into an
agreement with an organization which shall provide funds to local
governmental agencies that provide emergency response or
similar medical services or training for education and training in
life supporting first aid to children. Requires the selected
organization to give priority to emergency medical services,
fire departments, law enforcement agencies, hospitals, and
school nurses.” [S. 3533, Introduced 6/16/06, CRS Description]

Coleman Legislation Proposed $40 Million For Basic First Aid
Funding For Children; Passed Without Funding Attached As
Part Of Homeland Security Bill. According to the Detroit Lakes
Online, “Take the example of a recent news tip about little-known
legislation authored two years ago by U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman.
The Minnesota Republican wanted to spend $40 million to help
teach children basic first aid. "This legislation gives us the
opportunity to support an initiative that can truly pay dividends down
the road by giving the American people the training and tools to help
other citizens in times of emergencies," Coleman wrote in 2006,
after a streamlined version of his proposal -- without funding attached
-- passed as part of a Department of Homeland Security bill.”
[Detroit Lakes Online, 9/26/08]

2006: COLEMAN COMMENDED BY SAVE-A-LIFE FOR
SPEARHEADING SALF LEGISLATION

Coleman Was Commended By SALF For Being “Instrumental
Children.

According to a February 16, 2006 post on the Save-A-Life Foundation
website: “SALF is continually grateful to the U.S. Conference of
Mayors (USCM) and its members. At its winter meeting in D.C.,
SALF President and Founder Carol Spizzirri joined Mayor Rita Mullins,
Palatine, IL, U.S. Senator Norm Coleman, former mayor of St. Paul, MN,
Mayor Elizabeth B. Kautz, Burnsville, MN and Mayor Manny Diaz, Miami,
FL, who have been instrumental in spearheading SALF to emergency-
prepare American children… Mayor Kautz is taking aggressive measures
to follow Mayor Diaz’s plan for the children in and around her city of
Burnsville, while Senator Coleman takes leadership to bring this message
nationwide with bi-partisan support.”
[http://www.salf.org/media/news/2006_02/2006_02_17.html]

· SALF Praised Coleman For Sole Sponsorship Of “CRSI Act.”
According to the 2006-2007 SALF Annual Report, “Earlier this year,
the U.S. Conference of Mayors adopted the Community Response
Systems Initiative (CRSI) Resolution, named in honor of Christina
Spizzirri, committing their support to SALF as a foundation for
emergency preparing their communities. Thereafter U.S. Senator
Norm Coleman (MN), sponsored the “CRSI ACT” to assist in this
initiative.” [SALF Annual Report, 2006-2007]

2006: SAVE-A-LIFE FOUNDATION UNDER FIRE

Save-A-Life Foundation Received Millions Of Government Dollars,
Found To Have Series Of Misleading Claims And Deceptive
Credentials. In November 2006, Chicago’s ABC7’s I-Team reported,
“One of Illinois' highest profile charities teaches the Heimlich maneuver
to children while maneuvering the truth to get money from government
and big business. It's called the Save-A-Life Foundation and is known
across Illinois as an organization that teaches schoolchildren how to
respond in emergencies. For the past few years, Save-A-Life has received
millions of dollars in government funds and corporate donations.
An ABC7 I-Team investigation has uncovered a series of misleading
claims and deceptive credentials that raise doubts about Save-A-Life's
integrity, funding and training.” [ABC7, “The Maneuver,” 11/17/06]

SALF Claimed Organization Taught Heimlich Maneuver And
First Aid To Over 1 Million Studetns Since 1995. In November 2006,
Chicago’s ABC7’s I-Team reported, “Save-A-Life officials say they
have taught the Heimlich maneuver and other first aid techniques to
more than 1 million schoolchildren since 1995. They claim to have
taught nearly 70,000 children how to save a life in the Chicago Public
Schools this year alone.” [ABC7, “The Maneuver,” 11/17/06]

Carol Spizzirri, SALF Founder, Represented Herself To Mayors,
Congress, As Trained, Registered Nurse. In November 2006,
Chicago’s ABC7’s I-Team reported, "Our ultimate goal is to make this
part of driver's ed so that it becomes unified just as brushing teeth,"
said Carol Spizzirri, Save-A- Life founder. Spizzirri is the matriarch of
the Save-A-Life Foundation, based in west suburban Schiller Park, and
she has captured the attention -- and the funding -- of those who hold
government purse strings. For nearly 15 years, to mayors and members
of congress, she has represented herself as trained, registered nurse.”
[ABC7, “The Maneuver,” 11/17/06]

· Spizzirri Bio Claimed She Was Registered Nurse Specializing In
Kidney Transplants Then Claimed She Hadn’t Been Registered
In Years. In November 2006, Chicago’s ABC7’s I-Team reported,
“Spizzirri says she got her nursing degree in Wisconsin. Currently,
Save-A-Life's website and her bio claim, not only that she is an RN,
but that she specializes in kidney transplants. The I-Team asked if
that is true. "Not at this time," Spizzirri said. "I no longer have. I
haven't registered in a number of years."”
[ABC7, “The Maneuver,” 11/17/06]

The College Spizzirri Claimed To Receive Nursing Degree
From Never Awarded Her A Degree; No State Records To Prove
She Was A Registered Nurse. In November 2006, Chicago’s ABC7’s
I-Team reported, “According to state officials, the now-defunct
Wisconsin college where Spizzirri claims to have received a nursing
degree never awarded her a degree of any kind, and government
records show she has never been registered as a nurse in either
Wisconsin, as she told the I-Team she was, or in Illinois.”
[ABC7, “The Maneuver,” 11/17/06]

· The Hospital Spizzirri Said She Worked At As Nurse Said
She Was A Patient Care Assistant. In November 2006,
Chicago’s ABC7’s I-Team reported, "I had a nursing degree
and I have worked in a hospital," said Spizzirri. Officials at
the Milwaukee hospital where she claims to have been a
transplant nurse say she had a paid job for a couple of years,
as a patient care assistant akin to a candy striper.”
[ABC7, “The Maneuver,” 11/17/06]

· National Council Against Health Fraud: “Absolutely It’s
Fair Game To Go After Spizzirri And Her Credentials.”
In November 2006, Chicago’s ABC7’s I-Team reported,
"Absolutely it's fair game to go after her for her credentials
and her alleged story of how she got started in all of this,
because if they are incorrect or fraudulent or misrepresented,
then how can you believe anything she says after that?" said
Dr. Robert Baratz, National Council Against Health Fraud.”
[ABC7, “The Maneuver,” 11/17/06]

Federal And State Funding Agencies Defrauded By Spizzirri’s Claim
Of Holding Nursing Degree And License. In November 2006, Chicago’s
ABC7’s I-Team reported, “The president of the National Council Against
Health Fraud, a watchdog organization of medical professionals, says
that federal and state funding agencies have been defrauded by Spizzirri's
claims that she has a nursing degree and license.”
[ABC7, “The Maneuver,” 11/17/06]

· Spizzirri Claimed SALF Services Were Free But Chicago Public
Schools Were Billed $50,000 A Year. In November 2006,
Chicago’s ABC7’s I-Team reported, "It's free to the children. We
bring this course to schools for free," Spizzirri said. But it wasn't
free to the Chicago Public Schools, where officials say Save-A-Life
charged them $50,000 the past two years.”
[ABC7, “The Maneuver,” 11/17/06]

Chicago Public Schools CEO Said It Was Unlikely SALF Reached
As Many Students As It Claimed And Cost Taxpayers Over $1
Million Year. In November 2006, Chicago’s ABC7’s I-Team reported,
“Schools CEO Arnie Duncan says it seems unlikely that Carol
Spizzirri's organization could have taught the number of students they
claim, and it's not free to the taxpayers, who give Save-A-Life more than
$1 million a year through the Homeland Security department, Centers
For Disease Control and the State of Illinois. "If you have an organization
that has mostly volunteers, where's the million dollars going?" said
Baratz. "It doesn't take a million dollars to print a pamphlet."”
[ABC7, “The Maneuver,” 11/17/06]

Spizzirri Gave Herself Salary Of $120,000, Traveled On Generous
Expense Account To Obtain Government Funding For Save-A-Life.
In November 2006, Chicago’s ABC7’s I-Team reported, “Spizzirri pays
herself an annual salary of $120,000, according to Save-A-Life records
on file with the Illinois attorney general. She travels on a generous
expense account while working to obtain additional government
funding for expansion of her organization nationally.”
[ABC7, “The Maneuver,” 11/17/06]

Spizzirri Fabricated Circumstances Of Her Daughter’s Death When
Lobbying Lawmakers. In November 2006, Chicago’s ABC7’s I-Team
reported, “Spizzirri repeatedly tells politicians and public this story of her
motivation: "My daughter was coming home from work on Labor Day
of '92. She was struck by a hit-and-run, and her arm had been severely
injured, and she bled to death before EMS arrived," said Spizzirri. But
even that isn't true, according to police and hospital reports and an
inquest by the Lake County coroner. The official record states that
18-year-old Christina Spizzirri was legally drunk at the time of the
accident; and that after hosting a drinking party while her mother was
vacationing in Florida, the teenager got behind the wheel and flipped her
own car. Police records show there was no hit-and-run, and even though
the local police didn't know emergency first aid, the teenager did not die
at the scene as Carol Spizzirri contends. Medical records state that
Christina died 30 minutes after arriving at the hospital.””
[ABC7, “The Maneuver,” 11/17/06]

Spizzirri Could Not Provide Documentation Supporting Claimed
Circumstances Of Her Daughter’s Death Or Her Medical Training.
In November 2006, Chicago’s ABC7’s I-Team reported, “After terminating
that interview three weeks ago, Spizzirri's spokesperson requested that
we e-mail our additional questions. So we asked for information
supporting Spizzirri's often repeated story of Christina's death and any
proof that Spizzirri has the medical training, licensing and expertise that
she claims. They provided the I-Team with nothing.”
[ABC7, “The Maneuver,” 11/17/06]

American Red Cross Recommends The Opposite Of What SALF
Continues To Teach School Children For Emergency Response.
In November 2006, Chicago’s ABC7’s I-Team reported, "The American
Red Cross, the nation's leading first aid organization, no longer
supports the use of the Heimlich maneuver as the initial response
when someone begins choking. Last spring, in a surprisingly
under-publicized change, the Red Cross mandated its instructors to
teach several sharp slaps to the back when someone begins choking,
which induces them to cough. Research has shown that a series of
five of each together is the most proven mechanism for releasing
obstructed items from conscious children and adults," said Martha
Dittmar, American Red Cross. The Red Cross recommends Heimlich's
abdominal thrust only if back slaps fail. That is the opposite of what the
Save-A-Life Foundation continues to teach to thousands of school
children in Chicago and several other states.””
[ABC7, “The Maneuver,” 11/17/06]

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