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.
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 Grant
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’
Foy Park
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.
Bump Stocks
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.
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.
70-Year-Old Man Risks Prison To See 99-Year-Old Mom — The nightmare for Arthur started in May 2021 when his older sister filed a petition seeking guardianship of his mom, Jane.
It was two days after Jane’s 96th birthday.
Arthur, now 70, had moved into mom’s sprawling home in Franconia, Montgomery County, Pa., two years earlier, mostly to keep her company.
Jane, a window of 12 years, was independent, active and even still driving.
Arthur was doing the shopping, though. It was the height of Covid and he was hoping to keep her isolated.
Arthur represented himself at a hearing in July. Sis had her own lawyer and the courts assigned attorney David Jaskowiak to represent Jane.
Jane accepted Jaskowiak because she was told he came free, Arthur said.
Spoiler: He didn’t.
Arthur said he suggested that Jaskowiak have Jane’s doctor of 21 years as a witness to her competency, as well as her CPA, investment advisors and hairdresser.
For some reason, Jaskowiak called no witnesses, Arthur said.
His sister dropped out as discovery started and that should have meant Arthur got the job, one would think.
But no.
Jaskowiak said that because Arthur and Sis didn’t get along, the court would have to appoint a guardian. Judge Gail Weilheimer tapped Duane Logie for the job.
Logie turned out to be a friend of Jaskowiak, says Arthur. He would be both guardian of estate, which is responsible for financial matters, and guardian of person who is task for caring for the living conditions and medical things.
When the same person is both there is no check and balance, says Arthur.
Jane stayed in her familiar home for a week after the court declared her incapacitated. Logie said the health care manager wanted to meet Jane at her house. A date was arranged but rather than a health care manager it was local police who showed along with Logie and Arthur’s sister.
Police physically restrained Arthur on the front porch. He said he heard his mother screaming inside. The cops held him as his sister and Logie took the 96-year-old woman in tears to his sister’s car.
Sis sent an email to Arthur warning him not to come to her house else he’d be arrested, he said. She wouldn’t let Jane call him.
Sister kept Jane at her house for 10 days before she fell unconscious and an ambulance had to be called. She spent six weeks in the hospital being treated for starvation, Arthur said.
Arthur said the treatment included sticking a needle 42 times in the stomach to prevent blood clots.
Oh, and while there she finally did catch Covid.
When that ordeal ended Jane was dumped at Manatawny Manor in Pottstown. Arthur describes it as a low-rated nursing home in Pottstown.
Manatawny Manor had just reopened after a Covid shut down.
Arthur says Judge Weilheimer initially allowed him one hour visitation three times a week but soon reduced it to one-hour per month in retaliation for the questions he was asking.
He said his visits started becoming supervised. He was forbidden to take cell phone video of his mom.
What honest reason could there be for that restriction?
Arthur says he now finds it lucky to be able to see his mother. The last time was in December.
He says Jane, who is now 99, was able to recognize him and could still dress herself.
He said he could have spent 16,300 waking hours with his mother between August 2021 and June 2024. As it was, he got but 224 hours.
Arthur says the powers-that-be have a financial incentive for keeping his mom. He says Jaskowiak charges $300 per hour. He said the guardian who replaced Logie — and who he says is also friends of Jaskowiak — got $125 per hour. Further, Arthur says she hired her husband to do legal work on Jane’s behalf for which he got $400 per hour. Further, Arthur says, the hubby hired four other lawyers who also charge $400 per hour.
“When one talks to the other, they charge the estate $800,” said Arthur.
Arthur says the court charges the estate $90,000 per year for the nursing home and accepted the yearly cost — which includes things like insurance and taxes — of Jane living at her home at $16,500.
He says he never see invoices.
Arthur has been in prison three times for defending his mom.
The first one was when he placed a story on his website ProtectMyParents.us that included information Weilheimer wanted hidden. Arthur said Jane was fine with what he wrote, but no matter.
Weilheimer sentenced him to six months in Montgomery County Prison or until he removed the material. He says he thinks she expected him serve the full six months as there were no computers in prison to fix it. A friend, though, came to his rescue and removed the offending information which let him go free after 10 days.
The second incarceration happened after he rewrote and published the story leaving out all names. He did, however, include a link to an archived copy of the original. This prison stint was just a week before his computer friend could fix things.
Both contempt orders were instigated by Jaskowiak.
He said a third contempt attempt in December by Jaskowiak failed. Jaskowiak said one of the those monitoring his visits said he used his cell phone camera to record his mother. A reasonable person would find such a prohibition curious, but nevermind, the judge said it was a no-no.
Arthur, however, did not do this vile transgression and proved it at a March 20 hearing.
Arthur has a new judge, by the way, who is Melissa Sterling.
Now, the most recent battle.
Arthur learned where Jaskowiak lived in New Britain in Bucks County.
He composed a two-page letter concerning his views about guardianship corruption, and put copies under every doormat on Jaskowiak’s street on April 10.
On April 23, he began picketing in front his house. A State Trooper who lived on the street said he was on private property. Arthur said that he was on the sidewalk. The trooper said it was private property and he would arrest him if he stayed.
Arthur was getting tired of jail so he left but went to the township building and confirmed the sidewalk was public.
He returned on April 27. His sign contained Jaskowiak’s name; and the words “human traffic” and “sex pervert”.
The traffic concerned what Arthur considers to be the kidnapping of his mom. He says the “sex pervert” is in reference to a instructional video he found of Jaskowiak reportedly describing strategic use of contempt of court complaints and the threat of being sodomized in prison.
After two hours of picketing, Arthur was arrested and charged with harassment. The judge set his bail at $100,000 of which he needed to raise $10,000 to be free.
Arthur points out that he lives out of his car and receives welfare.
After five weeks in Bucks County Prison, the bail was lowered to 10 percent of $10,000 and friends managed to get him out.
Before he retired, Arthur trained and practiced voice stress analysis, which is a type of lie detection. For 41-years, he tested criminal suspects, potential employees and helped investigate insurance fraud. His clients included the military, police and major corporations. He traveled the nation and the world.
Arthur notes that there are no standards or requirements as to what constitutes an accurate evaluation of a person that will determine incapacitation in Pennsylvania. He also points out that court psychologists don’t record sessions and have no proof as to how a person answered.
Arthur says he hasn’t seen his mom for a half of a year.
“I don’t know what my mother is thinking,” he said. “Does she think I’m dead? Does she think I don’t love her anymore?”
Sick, stupid and cruel people are in charge of America.
Ed. Note: We have left out Arthur’s last name as he fears using it will give the Montco courts an excuse to throw him back in prison.
Arthur at the March Montco Commissioners Meeting
70-Year-Old Man Risks Prison To See 99-Year-Old Mom
Montco Judge Puts Lawyer In Cuffs — We just posted the horror story involving Montgomery County, Pa.’s judicial system and then we learn this was just put on Facebook by National Safe Parents.
It concerns Richard Ducote, a litigator on matters of domestic abuse. Ducote, who is based in Louisiana, got a license to practice in Pennslvania in 2009.
Richard Ducote
He is representing noted ophthalmologist Dr. Nicole Gross in her own horror-story divorce case.
Montco Common Please Court Judge Kelly Wall had Ducote arrested and handcuffed, May 8, while he was questioning a witness, according to Danielle Pollack of National Safe Parents.
Ducote had said that Judge Wall should recuse herself as she had engaged in ex parte communications, which is a violation of judicial ethics.
He says his arrest was retaliation for this.
Ex parte is when one of the parties in a legal dispute is not present when an action occurs. Sometimes it’s allowed but usually not.
Montco Courts Still Won’t Let Jody McMahon See Her Kids — Maybe the evil was always there and maybe it just seems worse because it’s getting exposed.
Which would be a good thing, we suppose.
Anyway, here’s another story from Montgomery County, Pa.
Jody McMahon’s marriage hit the rocks, and she and her husband, Shawn, separated in 2017.
Jody, of West Pottsgrove, was an English teacher at Owen J. Roberts High School. Shawn was a financial adviser.
There was a custody fight over their four children. An adjudication hearing was held June 4, 2019. Shawn showed up with a team of lawyers. Jody represented herself.
Shawn got complete custody.
Why?
A custody evaluation described him as “immature and self-indulgent”. It said he “might go into rage because of poor impulse control.”
Among other things.
So why did he get complete custody?
Jody is an epileptic and prone to seizures. Is that a reason for a stripping a mom of all rights and contact with her children? Only in a place completely devoid of compassion.
A truly monstrous place.
Like Montgomery County.
Jody returned to court on Nov. 19 of that year. This time she brought a lawyer.
Or thought she did. The lawyer didn’t show. Jody says she learned the lawyer was pressured to drop her that morning.
Her American with Disabilities Act advocate, Tina Graham, stood by her, however.
Jody had a right to the advocate because of her epilepsy.
Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy was made aware of Jody’s condition and why Ms. Graham’s presence was needed.
During the hearing, Jody had a seizure.
Did the judge postpone the hearing? Call for an ambulance?
No, she put Jody in leg shackles and handcuffs, and charged her with contempt.
When the deputies lifted her from her chair they dropped her and her head banged the courtroom’s concrete floor.
So an ambulance was called, after all.
Her restraints weren’t removed, though, not even at the hospital.
There is a well-understood protocol for treating epileptic seizures. Unfortunately it can’t be done with one’s hands and feet shackled.
Jody fell again at the hospital, again banging her head on the floor.
This time she fractured her skull.
She also suffered a stroke.
Did Demchick-Alloy schedule a new hearing? No, she awarded Shawn sole custody.
Jody got one-hour-per- week supervised visitation for the first year.
There was no visitation during Covid.
Now, she gets 15 minutes per week with her children over Zoom. She has to pay $90 to the county for someone to supervise.
She says the children ask why she let their dog starve to death.
For the record, she didn’t.
You kind of wonder where they got the idea she did.
The $90 per week to talk to her children is her largest expense, she says. She is well below the poverty line.
Regarding what happened in Judge Demchick-Alloy’s courtroom, you would think the media would have made it a bigger issue.
KWY’s Carol MacKenzie had a story which was followed by crickets. Nothing in Larry Weilheimer’s Philadelphia Inquirer. Nothing on any of the local evening newscasts.
Somebodies and somethings are being protected.
Jody McMahon in happier times with her children.
Montco Courts Still Won’t Let Jody McMahon See Her Kids
Elderly Woman Gets Expensive Misery Courtesy Montco Adult Services — The social services promoted by the caring crowd are appearing more and more to be a money making scam, and a cruel one.
It started about 2-and-a-half ago. Her mom, Elsie, then 84, had been living with her 59-year-old brother, JG. For years they were inseparable and Elsie took him everywhere, then lost an eye after botched cataract surgery by Wills Eye Hospital.
The brother had been recognized as disabled by Social Security since a teen, though he had a business degree and made many of Elsie’s appointments.
They lived in a condo in Mont Clare.
When Elsie could no longer drive, Jenny and her sister Sophia helped as they could but it was not enough.
Friends pitched in to take Elsie to appointments and meals but it was still not enough.
The brother asked the visiting doctor if they could get help. She brought the matter up to the county who turned it over to Adult Protective Services.
An agent visited the home and declared it to be an unfit environment.
Jenny concedes it was not perfect but Elsie had a constant companion and was content.
No matter. Montco assigned Elsie a lawyer she didn’t want. The lawyer began charging her $300 per hour, while ignoring her directions and wishes.
A guardian was assigned.
“Guardians are thought to be good things,” Jenny said. “You know like guardian angels.”
This one though was cold and cruel. She was also indifferent to the wishes of the mother.
She appeared to be in cahoots with the lawyer and it was from her she took directions, Jenny said.
A hearing was held.
The mom was ordered from her home and into Genesis Healthcare’s Manor Care of King of Prussia.
Her children’s visits were supervised. Jenny says Elsie cried at each one asking why they were keeping her there.
The children were forbidden from saying why.
The county began the steps to take her $200,000 home.
Here, though, is where the plot was foiled.
JG’s disability kept him from being evicted.
Three more hearings ensued. Jenny, Sophia and her other brother Jerald acquired joint custody of Elsie.
Still the county won’t let Elsie leave a “care” facility.
Why?
Imagine us rubbing our fingers together while pretending we have green paper between them.
The Reimenschneiders’ battle to get Elsie home continues. So far it has cost them about $15,000 in legal fees — which Jenny says pales compared to others fighting Montco — and the $10,000 apiece Elsie was forced to pay the county-appointed lawyer and the county-appointed guardian.
The county also paid the lawyer $10G and the lawyer continues to bill the county.
If it looks like corruption, swims like corruption and quacks like corruption, what else can it be?
Elsie Reimenschneider with her family when she was freeElsie Reimenschneider confined at Manor Care
AG Wants 30 Days To Answer Connolly RTK — The Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General says it needs another 30 days, or until April 24, to answer the right-to-know (RTK) request Sean Connolly submitted March 18.
RTK Officer Sharon K. Maitland said the extension was needed due to the extent of Connolly’s request.
He says state, municipal and Montgomery County authorities are protecting Toll Brothers and then Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
Connolly seeks communications between the AG office and attorneys Jennifer Horn and Carter Williamson of Horn Williamson relating to Toll Brothers along with documents such as inter-office emails and meeting agendas involving former Consumer Protection Division Director Sarah Frasch in which Connolly was mentioned.
He also seeks financial records relating to use of special agents used to contact Greg Stenstrom and Leah Hoopes, both of Delaware County, after they reported election irregularities in November 2020 to former US Attorney Bill McSwain.
Connolly also asked for all communications sent to Dr. Scott Rifkin who is an advisor to now Gov. Shapiro. He says Shapiro, Rifkin and others were involved in a backdoor deal to sell the 200 acre county-owned Parkhouse property while Shapiro was a county commissioner.
Connolly has numerous other request in his RTK and we are including a pdf of the attorney general office’s response.
Flipping On Shapiro? —Doom, despair and misery aside, most in law enforcement and government are good guys. Granted, they are not usually the ones running things but they are the majority.
We just heard from a credible source that someone is about to flip on Gov. Josh Shapiro.
Keep watching the Montgomery County Courthouse, people. Keep watching the courthouse.
Corruption Rampant In Montco; Resident Describes To Commissioners Cronyism And Falsifying Documents — Sean Connolly took his peeled onion to his county commissioners, this morning, March 21.
“I know about the corruption that goes on in Montgomery County,” he said.
Connolly said deeds and certificates of occupations have been falsified, and crimes were covered up by law enforcement. He laid all at the feet of Josh Shapiro who chaired the Montco Commissioners before becoming Pennsylvania attorney general in 2017 and then governor in 2023.
He said Shapiro was involved in a backdoor deal with Scott Rifkin to sell the 200 acre county-owned Parkhouse property as county commissioner.
Connolly, a former Montco deputy sheriff, said Shapiro had a long-standing personal relationship to the Toll family of Toll Brothers developers. He said Shapiro has taken substantial campaign contributions from the Tolls and that he has worked to cover up complaints over Toll Brothers homes such as water-intrusion..
That’s what started Connolly’s crusade. He had purchased an expensive Toll Brothers home in 2017. There were problems even before he moved in and he, his wife and kids were living in a hotel. After he moved in, things were not fixed.
The roof leaked. There were gas leaks, and frozen pipes. The framing from basement to roof was compromised.
He said there were about 20 other homes in his development with the same problems.
He said the certificate of occupancy had been falsified by the township code inspector. Connolly said he contacted police and nothing happened. He sought his records via a right-to-know request and what police gave him was redacted.
Connolly said his deed was illegally recorded.
He was unable to get relief from the authorities — whether at the municipal, county, state or federal level — that allegedly protect citizens in such matter.
So he has taken the matter to the public.
Yesterday, he was interviewed by Emerald Robinson and gave far more detail than he was able to in the three minutes granted by the Montco Commissioners.
He has also started the website TollBrothersFraud.com in which he shows the receipts he acquired on his journey.
Connolly has branched off into investigating the other scandals involving Montgomery County. In his three minutes before the commissioners he cited the one concerning conservatorships. In an interview afterwards, he said there is a looming child sex scandal.
Some have accused Montco’s courts of using their power in the appointment of guardians to rob the elderly of their estates. The late talk show host Marti Oakley had it as a regular topic.
We have written several times about Elaine Mickman who says the county has worked with her ex to strip her of her home and assets.
Today we met Arthur who brought a sign saying “DA Steele Protects Guardianship Corruption.”
There is a whole lot of smoke in Montco and somewhere we think there is a raging fire.
Other ugliness revealed, today, was that King of Prussia was the nation’s second largest source of child trafficking behind Las Vegas.
A woman, who said she worked at one of the county’s Jefferson-Einstein hospitals, said young foreign women constantly arrive to give birth. The fathers are invariably “disgusting” American men with fake address. She was in near tears. She said she fears what happens to the babies after they leave.
Commissioner Tom DiBello backed her up. He said that Pennsylvania is the worst state in the nation for child trafficking due to its location and interstates.
One speaker said that taxes rose 34 percent over the last four years.
The commissioners passed a bizarre Soviet-sounding ordinance establishing a “Food Policy Council”. This would include “stakeholders” who are people who have no stake in the production or profitability of an enterprise.
Commissioner Neil Makhija said the county has 600 farms but only six percent grow vegetables.
Resident Joe Rooney of Abington called out their stupidity.
He said this was a five-year Soviet plan.
“How many of you people have ever raised chickens?” he asked. “How many of you have ever raised turkeys?”
We have a suspicion that there will be a whole lot less than 600 farms by the time this bunch is through.
There are a whole lot of half-acre backyards in Montco that would make just peachy vegetable patches. Who needs swimming pools and barbecue pits? Hey Neil, let all your wealthy suburban supporters know they can solve this problem themselves.
Despite the serious problems, today’s action by the commissioners was mostly creepy wokeyness. There were poetry readings and celebrations of women’s history month. Makhija took great pride in the upcoming “pride” month. Why one would take pride in pointless, dangerous and deviant sex remains a puzzle.
Maybe in a few short years the child traffickers will get a month of their own.
Arthur with his sign outside the commissioners meeting room.
Chesco Courts Inspire Dirty Secrets Of Divorce — We met attorney Renee Mazer at Wednesday’s hearing concerning election transparency in Delaware County and learned she is an author, a bit of a comedienne, and a crusader for reform in Pennsylvania’s family courts.
Her book The Dirty Secrets of Divorce or What Your Lawyer Won’t Tell You is a warning about the dangers and costs of divorce along with the apparent corruption that makes divorce far more painful and expensive than it has to be.
This apparent corruption includes the alleged theft of property and untenable and unconcionable loss of access to children.
It’s based on what she experienced in Chester County family courts during her divorce, and what she saw in countless other cases from around country.
Besides the book, Renee has created a whole new method for divorce called The Mazer Method, which is almost court free.
“We act as coaches,” she said. “We don’t act as lawyers.”
Basically, the parties file their own papers and little or no time is before a judge.
It is much more affordable and healthier, she says. She says her clients are quite pleased with the service, and their kids are doing great.
And she’s also considering going into comedy.
And she says that her experiences with Pennsylvania’s family court system have left her with strong opinions regarding divorce.
“Hypothetically, I can unequivocally say . . . I would choose a psychopathic, child torturing spouse I haven’t had sex with in years over child torturing psychopathic lawyers and judges who screw me on a daily basis,” she said.
