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
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.
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.
I sent this to mullins, also to 3500 other people
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.
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
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.
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.
--------------------------
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.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
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
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?
'
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
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
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?
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
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"
http://mnpublius.com/2008/10/colemans-strange-save-a-life-foundation-connections/
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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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.
Tell us what you think!
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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!
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.
Tell us what you think!
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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
| 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 FROM: Minnesota DFL Party RE: In Case You Missed It: Coleman Connection to Shady 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 November 2006 exclusive report by WLS-TV, ABC7 Chicago, Senator Coleman’s office today was defensive about Coleman’s
Today’s article concludes by saying that while Coleman’s office denies http://www.dl-online.com/articles/index.cfm?id=38311 Commentary: More questions than answers over odd
Silence can breed skepticism, sometimes unwarranted. Take the example of a recent news tip about little-known legislation “This legislation gives us the opportunity to support an initiative On its surface, the episode hardly deserves a skeptical look: A Supposedly, that was the end of it. The feds and Coleman moved Yet, reporting yielded interesting facts. An emergency training Additionally, there was no detailed explanation for why the Calls were made, including to the foundation, Homeland Security -- Did Coleman author the legislation with the foundation in mind? -- Since lawmakers like to talk about how they help their -- Did Coleman or federal officials make sure Save A Life did not get Homeland Security officials responded to an initial inquiry, but The foundation’s leader, Carol Spizzirri, would not return repeated calls. Even the office of Coleman's Democratic opponent, Al Franken, had heard Surely Coleman, a Republican locked in a fierce re-election battle, would The senator’s press secretary, LeRoy Coleman (no relation to the senator), The spokesman would not grant an interview with Coleman, arguing there That may be, but it’s hard for the public to decide that when left with so Coleman’s Questionable Involvement with the Save-A-Life 2006: COLEMAN INTRODUCED LEGISLATION FOR BASIC 2006: Coleman Solely Sponsored Legislation To Fund · Amendment Would Allow DHR To “Enter Into An Agreement Coleman Legislation Proposed $40 Million For Basic First Aid 2006: COLEMAN COMMENDED BY SAVE-A-LIFE FOR Coleman Was Commended By SALF For Being “Instrumental According to a February 16, 2006 post on the Save-A-Life Foundation · SALF Praised Coleman For Sole Sponsorship Of “CRSI Act.” 2006: SAVE-A-LIFE FOUNDATION UNDER FIRE Save-A-Life Foundation Received Millions Of Government Dollars, SALF Claimed Organization Taught Heimlich Maneuver And
Federal And State Funding Agencies Defrauded By Spizzirri’s Claim
Spizzirri Gave Herself Salary Of $120,000, Traveled On Generous Spizzirri Fabricated Circumstances Of Her Daughter’s Death When American Red Cross Recommends The Opposite Of What SALF -30- |
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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.
>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
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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
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!
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?
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.