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Montco Expose For Free Today On Amazon — Elaine Mickman, who was one of the first who exposed us to the injustice and corruption in Montgomery County’s judicial system, has her book about it for free, today, Jan. 20, on Amazon.
The book is Court-Gate….the Courts “Divorced from the Law“
Click here then click read now to get it.
Legislation Would Gut Kayden’s Law –We posted reports a few hours ago that powerful persons in the legal community were seeking to gut Kayden’s Law which was signed into existence April 15 and took effect Aug. 13.
Kayden’s Law is named for seven-year-old Kayden Mancuso who was murdered by her father in 2018 during a visitation. It mandates courts to consider a parent’s history of violence when deciding custody.
Why would anyone want to have propensity to violence and abuse not be a prime, if not the prime, reason in deciding custody?
Who could even think of this?
A mercenary attorney seeking to maintain an avenue to making a buck? A child abuser?
Certainly no decent person.
Nor, did we think, a legislator concerned about his standing with his constituency.
We were wrong.
House Bill 2018 has been introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature and it guts Kayden’s Law.
Prime sponsor is Montgomery County Democrat Liz Hanbidge who represents the 61st District.
It passed the House Judiciary Committee, Sept. 25. All Democrats voted for it and all Republicans voted no.
Why don’t these Democrats care about the safety of children? Why don’t they give a law that’s been in effect for only about six weeks a chance to work?
Feel free to try and answer these questions in the comments.
Legislation Would Gut Kayden’s Law
Woman Avoids Charges And Keeps Daughter After Montco Custodial Hearing — Alexandria, who is facing charges for taking her daughter to California to keep her from the clutches of an abusive ex escaped punishment, yesterday, Aug. 30, after a hearing before Montgomery County (Pa.) Common Pleas Court Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy.
Further, she retained full custody.
Among those attending the hearing in support, were Montco good-government activist Sean Connolly; the mother of Kayden Mancuso, whose death at the hands of a violent and unstable ex led to Kayden’s Law; a Delco woman seeking to keep her grandkids from unsupervised visits with a violent and unstable ex; Jody McMahon; and representatives from media outlets including a documentarian.
We understand that Montco President Judge Carolyn T. Carluccio is beginning to take an interest in these cases.
Something is seriously wrong with Pennsylvania’s system of (alleged) child protection. The women above described objective instances — like hospital reports — of physical or sexual abuse of children with the abusing spouse not only escaping charges but continuing to have visitation rights.
Meanwhile, not so long ago, we attended a hearing in which a rather bratty kid described how his mother left a bruise on him when she smacked him after he kicked her leading to the Delaware County District Attorney to bring charges against her.
No hospitalization or stitches or anything of import.
The DA, however, chose to pursue this rather than protect children who hid in a Springfield sewer to escaped being in the custody of a violent father.
Sick people are in charge and the good judges and police and prosecuters have to speak up.
Connolly, by the way, noted he enjoyed the company of the seven or so sheriff deputies present at the hearing. He also said he had enjoyed a short conversation with the former driver for Mike Vereb, the one-time Montco GOP chairman who became secretary for legislative affairs for Gov. Josh Shapiro until unfortunate matters of legislative affairs compelled him to leave.
Justice Coming To Montco Courts? — We hear the looming scandals we’ve been covering concerning Montgomery County (Pa) courts are about to break wide upon.
We’ve been disappointed before but may the truth be revealed and justice prevail.
Meanwhile, some questions:
Why did Dr. Scott Rifkin make numerous visits to Josh Shapiro’s Philadelphia office when Josh was Pennsylvania Attorney General?
Why are right-to-know requests concerning what they discussed being denied?
How did Shapiro go from a net worth of $100,000 in 2000 to $4 million in 2010 to $35 million today?
Why are Amish farmers being coerced into conservatorships resulting in the state takeover of their lands?
Questions, questions questions.
Justice Coming To Montco Courts?
Complaint File Against Montco Judge Regarding Ducote Matter — The Montgomery County, Pa. judge who threw a hissy fit and ordered an attorney arrested and handcuffed is in a bit of trouble herself.
Common Please Court Judge Kelly Wall gave the bizarre order, May 8, because she didn’t like how attorney Richard Ducote was a questioning a witness.
Or maybe it’s because Ducote said that Judge Wall should recuse herself because she had engaged in ex parte communications, which is a violation of judicial ethics.
Ducote is representing noted ophthalmologist Dr. Nicole Gross in a horror-story divorce case.
Anyway Ducote filed a complaint against Judge Wall with the Judicial Conduct Board, regarding those ex parte communications.
The establishment media is actually covering it.
Ducote says Wall and the witnesses admitted to the conversations in court.
Regarding the handcuffs, holding a lawyer in a civil case in criminal contempt is improper, say legal experts. Especially, without a hearing.
Hat tip Sean Connolly
Complaint File Against Montco Judge Regarding Ducote Matter
Arthur Herring Gets Year Probation For Defending Mother In Her Loneliness — Arthur Herring was sentenced to 12 months probation by Bucks County President Judge Raymond F. McHugh, this morning, July 16, for picketing the New Britain home of David Jaskowiak.
The charge was harassment. Jaskowiak was the court-appointed lawyer for Arthur’s mother, Jane.
Jaskowiak was appointed by Montgomery County where Jane had lived.
Jane died the morning of July 2. That afternoon, McHugh revoked Arthur’s bail returning him to Bucks County Prison.
McHugh had forbidden Arthur to contact Jaskowiak.
Arthur cc’d him, however, in in an email to the court-appointed guardian of the estate.
It was the only contact Arthur, age 70, had with the attorney in a month of freedom since his bail was lowered to what he could afford.
He was arrested for the picketing, April 27. He had spent five weeks in jail on $100,000 bail.
McHugh, today, allowed Arthur a chance to make a statement before sentencing.
Arthur, probably against the advice of his lawyer, did.
Jaskowiak was appointed with the expectation his mother could replace him, Arthur said.
One might expect that to be the case. It’s what we’re taught in civics class, after all.
Not so in guardianship matters, though.
Arthur, tearfully, said that Jaskowiak wouldn’t let his mother to call witnesses such as her doctor and financial advisors in her competency hearing.
And the county found her incompetent, sentencing her to spend two years of wretched misery in poorly managed nursing homes and away form her beloved son.
He also accused Jaskowiak and the appointed guardians of siphoning money from the estate by giving no-work jobs to friends, and billing for unnecessary work.
Arthur slowly lost access to his mom. The last time they saw each other was in December. The courts prohibited him from taking photos and video of her.
Really, what’s up with that?
Arthur also took issue with a claim by the prosecution regarding the sign he held during the picketing. The prosecution said Arthur accused Jaskowiak of being a sex trafficker.
Arthur said he did not accuse Jaskowiak of being a sex trafficker.
He said he accused him of being a human trafficker and a sex pervert.
The human trafficking concerned what he considered to be the kidnapping of his mother, Arthur said. The sex pervert claim stems from video Jaskowiak made for a legal seminar. Jaskowiak explained how opponents can be goaded into getting jailed for contempt of court and this would lead them to a “date with Bubba.”
Arthur reasoned that Jaskowiak was promoting male rape.
McHugh lectured Arthur that disputes must be settled in court and that he most certainly broke the law, which Arthur objectively did.
Calling someone a sex pervert is illegal on a public street.
Judge McHugh made a legitimate point, but one wonders what is the recourse when courts go bad.
There most certainly is something bad in Pennsylvania’s guardianship system.
One story can be read here.
And another here.
Let’s not forget this one.
Or just do a search for Elaine Mickman.
Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Gail A. Weilheimer, who was one of the judges who tormented Arthur, has been nominated by Joe Biden to serve as a United States District Court judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Problematic Montco Judge Tapped For Fed Court — Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge Gail A. Weilheimer has been nominated by Joe Biden to serve as United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
The nomination was recommended by Pennsylvania’s Democrat senators Bob Casey and John Fetterman.
Judge Weilheimer is involved with the troubling stories regarding family court matter in Montco, including the torture inflicted on Arthur Herring.
She is the wife of Philadelphia Inquirer Vice President and Chief General Counsel Larry Wellheimer, and closely connected to Gov. Josh Shapiro.
With Democrat control of the US Senate her confirmation is basically assured.
Problematic Montco Judge Tapped For Fed Court
Lower Prov Sued For Stopping Shelter — Lower Providence Township in Montco is getting sued for stopping a “short-term housing project” on the Eagleville Hospital property.
The facility, known as Genny’s Place,would house 60 single adults from Montgomery County for 60-to-90 days.
Does this include new residents of Montco from points south who maybe aren’t there legally?
Behind this is the Philadelphia-based Resources for Human Development, a non-governmental organization.
We hear Gov. Josh Shapiro is a big backer of it.
Montco Adds 94 New County Jobs — Montgomery County, yesterday, June 27, approved 94 new positions with the highest salary at $151,148.80 for an interim director of Health and Human Services.
Republican Thomas DiBello,, who is Montgomery County’s mandated minority commissioner, said it was the last time he will vote for expanding the payroll until the county starts finding ways to save money.
David Morgan of Ambler noted in public comments that taxes in the county have risen 34 percent in the last few years.
Vice Chairman Neil Makhija said the county is still understaffed.
Morgan would later describe abortion as not a “reproductive right” but a failure of reproduction, which inspired a snippy bit of anger from Chairwoman Jamila H. Winder who basically said a woman can do what she wants with her body.
The Marquis de Sade would agree.
And whatever was Montco’s vax policy a short time back?
Also in public comments, Jenny Reimenschneider, whose mother, Elsie, is one of the victims of Montco’s guardianship program, again brought up the elder abuse in which Montco is complicit. Elsie has been forced into captivity, Ms. Reimenschneider said.
She said that Elsie lives in isolation and is a broken woman.
The judge and attorney who put her there are still getting paid, she said.
Day care providers Zakiyyah Boone, Christina Lynch and Kim Follette (phonetic) thanked the county for a $500,000 to hire substitutes. They said, however, the money would have been better used for raises for hard-to-keep staff.
If taxes were lower, they’d have more money for raises and the staff wouldn’t need as much. Just sayin’
A slab of asphalt in Foy Park in Lower Frederick Township caused much discussion. The 7-acre tract had been deeded as open space but the township put in a playground and basketball court in 2005 along with an asphalt pad for a skate park. The county found out and stopped the skate park but let them keep the basketball court and playground.
The township then recently thought it would be good to put a “traffic garden” on the pad. This would be just adding paint. A traffic garden is an image of streets and buildings. It supposedly helps children learn traffic laws and safety.
The county was fine with it until it realized that the asphalt was in a floodway. They decided that Lower Frederick can paint the traffic garden on the basketball court but it has to remove the other asphalt.
Somewhere King Solomon is laughing his butt off.
Makhija praised “Pride Month” at the meeting’s start. He also condemned the Supreme Court ruling that said that bump stocks could not be banned by presidential decree but required a law.
Bump stocks are devices that let semi-automatic firearms fire rapidly.
The Trump Administration banned them after Stephen Paddock allegedly used them, Oct. 1, 2017, to kill 58 people and injure 500 at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas. He caused this carnage firing about a thousand 5.56 caliber rounds from 500 yards away.
Bump stocks are considered to be wasters of ammunition.
But we don’t want to put conspiracy theories in anyone’s head.
And when are we going to get a “Gluttony Month?”
It seems that would be more fun.
Follow it with “Sloth Month.”
Every month is Avarice Month, of course, in places where taxes are rising 34 percent.
Finally, it was announced that Please, Please, Please by Quakertown native Sabrina Carpenter has hit number 1.
The Board says it will play it at future meeting. One even suggested having her come in and sing it.
Montco Adds 94 New County Jobs
DiBello Pushes Poll Watcher Freedom At Montco Counting Center; Dems Seem OK With It — Republican Thomas DiBello,, who is Montgomery County’s mandated minority commissioner, suggested at today’s, June 27, meeting of the county Election Board that poll watchers get free access to the entire central ballot processing center.
He noted that the reasons for the existing limitations were a legacy of Covid and no longer necessary.
County Election Director Frank Dean agreed as did Commissioner Vice Chairman Neil Makhija.
Mush suspicion would disappear if Montgomery County went through with this. Delaware County should take note.
DiBello also asked if it were possible for cellular signal jammers to be placed in the building. He said the signals are rampant. Dean said he would look into the feasibility and would also investigate DiBello’s concern regarding the possibility of the scanners being hackable with cellular devices along with his suggestion to livestream the ballot drop box cameras.
Dean also addressed questions posed by Jim Mollick of Worcester regarding the process of purging voter roles. He said a person can only be purged when a death is reported or by a state approved methods concerning the voter moving.
Mollick, during public comments, addressed a challenge by Chairwoman Jamila H. Winder to find vote fraud. Mollick noted that the state prohibits voters to use a Post Office box to register.
“Here is 50,” Mollick said. “Actually it is the same PO box.”
Mollick also said that he found five persons who moved from the county and are still on voting rolls. This includes one who moved to New York yet still votes in Montco.
Barbara Furman, a judge of elections in New Hanover, said it is impossible to determine chain of custody in the existing system and suggested that having the mail-in ballots be counted at the precinct would increase security.
Marleen Laska said it’s illegal for non-citizens to vote but many don’t realize it as they are told otherwise. She said the county should put signs declaring only US citizens may vote. This is not an unreasonable suggestion.
Sandra Levine said that Montgomery Township did not have the proper ballots for the machines at an election and that many voters could not wait and were in effect disenfranchised.
Adrian Seltzer, a judge of elections, said that Montgomery Township could have offered provisional ballots or allowed the ballots be placed manually in the dropbox to be counted later. She defended Montco’s system of elections.
Scott Emmet advocated handcounting the ballots.
Issues with right-to-know requests were also a subject as they had been at the preceding commissioners meeting.
Jean White said she has submitted 14 right-to-knows with the county new open records officer Joshua Wertheimer with little effect. Many involved seeking information about the voting process and she was told to subject them voter services, which she did, again without much luck.
Free clue: Fighting right-to-know request does not — repeat does not — ease suspicions.
