Introduction

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="133d8c00dduajq.jpg"> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> INDEX OF PAGES</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Main"><U><B>Home Page</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="background.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Background"><U><B>Background</B></U></A><B> </B></div> <div> <A HREF="news.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="In The News"><U><B>In The News</B></U></A><B> </B></div> <div> <B> </B><A HREF="gasb_fraud.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="gasb"><U><B>German-American State Bank Fraud</B></U></A><B> </B></div> <div> <A HREF="davis_bank_fraud.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="davis"><U><B>State Bank of Davis Fraud</B></U></A><B> </B></div> <div> <B> </B><A HREF="records_confirmed.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="confirmed"><U><B>Property Title Records Confirmed</B></U></A><B> </B></div> <div> <A HREF="title_fraud__i_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bankruptcy Court/Title Company Fraud, Pa"><U><B>Bankruptcy Court/Title Company Fraud (1)</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#0000CC" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <B>INTRODUCTI</B><B>ON</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B> </B><B>     </B></FONT></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=370 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <B>  </B></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><IMG SRC="2a87c0d0.jpg" border=0 width="380" height="269" ALT="farmhouse" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="45" VSPACE="0"></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Courier" > </FONT><B>The purpose of this website is to EXPOSE both the SCHEMES and the SCHEMERS.  In so doing, this website is setting forth the chronology to date of a well-documented and ongoing extortion scheme perpetrated, over the past thirty (30) plus years, by bankers, by judges and by others "</B><I><B>under color of official right</B></I><B>" of both State and Federal Courts located in and around Rockford, Illinois.</B></div> <bR> <div>      The current focus case features actions of state chartered banks located in Stephenson County and Winnebago County, Illinois, a bank holding company now located in Rockford, Illinois, certain bankruptcy trustees, a nationwide Title Company, State and Federal Judges, State and Federal Law Enforcement Officers, along with various others that, together, have raised extortion to an all new level by the taking, "<I>under color of official right</I>", of this partially restored Nineteenth Century farm house including the 179 Acres of Pecatonica, Illinois, farmland on which it is located.</div> <bR> <div>      Wellsofjustice.org has followed and intensely researched this case since the summer of calendar year 2000.  This case involves flagrant corruption and the ongoing malicious abuse of legal process.  The early history of this case appears, in brief, at: <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="http://www.wellsofjustice.com/stealingland.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.wellsofjustice.com/stealingla"><U>www.wellsofjustice.com/stealingland.htm</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div>      The evidence in this case establishes an extortion scheme, contrived and carried out in "t<I>rying to obtain title to</I> (the farm)<I> property</I>", which:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Was perpetrated originally by Officers of the German-American State Bank at German Valley, Illinois, after being informed that the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, by a <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" > <a href="http://www.wellsofjustice.org/pdf/eltr.pdf" target="new">letter</a>  </FONT>dated June 9, 1971, stated that:</div> <bR> <div>  "<I>The silty clays and greenish-gray clays which are dominant in the borings are generally very good protective soils and are suitable for landfill purpose.  It appears that the depths of clay over the rock strata are sufficient in the East 60 A. +/-</I>";</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> Was subsequently perpetrated by Officers of the State Bank of Davis, at Davis, Illinois, when the Bank started financing the farming operation of Clarence Vance on December 5, 1980.  Very shortly thereafter on January 28, 1981, the Rockford Register Star newspaper published an  <a href="http://www.wellsofjustice.org/pdf/article.pdf" target="new">article</a>  which stated that:  "<I>The Rockford Sanitary District has begun to investigate placing a landfill </I>(on the farm property)<I> between Durand and Pecatonica . . .</I>";</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Was perpetuated by the State Bank of Davis, as a Foresight Financial Group Bank.  Foresight Financial Group, Inc. is a bank holding company created, on June 26, 1985, by Officers and Directors of the German-American State Bank, the State Bank of Davis, and the Northwest Banks in Rockford, Illinois;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Was also perpetuated by State Bank of Davis Attorney Daniel M. Donahue and Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee together with Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee Thomas J. Lester in Bankruptcy Case 97-B-50687 and Adversary Case 98-A 5060 and, then together with attorney Janet D. Fuenty and others, in Adversary Proceeding 99-A-5023.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Was further perpetuated by attorney Janet D. Fuenty in Winnebago County Circuit Court Case 01-L-287 in which evidence indicates attorney Janet Fuenty secretly represented the interests of Fidelity National Financial, Inc., a nationwide Title and information processing company.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Continues to be perpetuated by Winnebago County State's Attorney Paul A. Logli in Winnebago County Circuit Court Criminal Case Numbers 01-CF-2701, 01-CM-8121, 02-CM-637, 02-CM-3066, and 02-CM-6438.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">This Title Fraud scheme was acknowledged by Wendy Larson, an assistant to State's Attorney Paul A. Logli, during a court hearing in<I> People v. Vance</I> (Case 01-CF-2701), conducted on April 28, 2004, when she stated, either by intent or by a "slip of the lip", as follows:</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>"Actually, Judge, it's my understanding that this stems from a proceeding from 20 years ago started by the bank trying to obtain title to property."</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#BF0000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>NOTE:</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Times New Roman" >     Wendy Larson then stated to Judge Richard W. Vidal that "There is a valid trustee's deed".  That "deed" was issued, </FONT>"<I>under color of official right</I>" of the Bankruptcy Court in Rockford, Illinois,<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Times New Roman" > to Alan F. Miller, on September 26, 2000, by Thomas J. Lester as Trustee of Clarence's Bankruptcy Estate in Adversary Case 99-A-5023.  Clarence responded to Wendy Larson by stating:  "I haven't had title to that property since 1983".  Wendy Larson acknowledged that absence of ownership by stating before presiding Judge Rechard W. Vidal:  "That's correct".  (</FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#009933" FACE="Times New Roman" > <a href="http://www.wellsofjustice.org/pdf/trnscrt.pdf" target="new">See Transcript</a>  </FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Times New Roman" >, pages 14 & 15).  Wendy Larson did not explain to Judge Vidal how Alan Miller could obtain "a valid trustee's deed" from Clarence's Bankruptcy Trustee Seventeen (17) years after Clarence's ownership interest in the subject property had been lawfully transferred and later confirmed, by a Winnebago County Circuit Court FINAL JUDGMENT ORDER on October 29, 1998, confirmed by court order two (2) years before that "deed" was issued to Alan Miller.  Nevertheless, the evidence establishes that Judge Richard Vidal continues to allow Paul Logli and his assistants to prosecute Clarence on the basis of that "trustee's deed".</FONT></div> <bR> <div>      The information and documentation contained in this website reveals the details and the actions of how the scheme of "<I><B>trying to obtain title to (the farm) property</B></I>" has taken place as well as how this scheme:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Has been knowingly perpetrated by:</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Thomas J. Lester (a HINSHAW & CULBERTSON Attorney) as the Bankruptcy Trustee for the Bankruptcy Estate of Clarence L. Vance; </div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Daniel M. Donahue (a McGreevy, Johnson & Williams, P.C. Attorney)  as a member of the lawfirm representing the interests of Clarence's creditor, the State Bank of Davis, and also, at the very same time, the interests of Thomas J. Lester as Bankruptcy Trustee for the Bankruptcy Estate of Clarence L. Vance;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Bankruptcy Judge Manuel Barbosa who facilitated the perpetration of this scheme "<I>under color of official right</I>" of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Western Division, located in Rockford, Illinois;  and</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Fidelity National Financial, Inc. and subsidiaries Chicago Title Insurance Company and Security Union Title Insurance Company;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Title Underwriters Agency in Rockford, Illinois, operated by David Black, Nedra Black, Chad Black;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Pecatonica Attorney Janet D. Fuenty as attorney for Jim Blunt who, evidence indicates, also secretly represented the interests of Fidelity National Financial, Inc.;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Federal District Judge Philip G. Reinhard;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Henry Hachmeister (now deceased), Greg Hachmeister, and Swan Hachmeister of Hack's Auction and Realty, Inc.;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">McAviation Corp, Joseph McGuire, Carolyn McGuire, the McGuire Family Trust, Alan F. Miller, Craig Dummer, Catherine Dummer, Norman Wheeler;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Others so involved;  and </div> <bR> <div> <B>Has been knowingly perpetuated by the practice of willful blindness on the part of:</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     High-ranking officials of the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees (created by the United States Congress to oversee Bankruptcy Trustees); </div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800330000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     United States Justice Department including both the Attorney Generals Office and the FBI in Washington, DC;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800330000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     The FBI Offices in both Chicago and Rockford, Illinois</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     Illinois United States Senator Richard Durbin and former Illinois United States Senator Peter Fitzgerald;  </div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     Scott Lazier and his successor Patrick Fitzgerald as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     Keith Syfert, now the former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     Jim Ryan and his successor Lisa Madigan as the Attorney General for the State of Illinois;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     Winnebago County Sheriff Richard A. Meyers;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800330000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     Winnbago County State's Attorney Paul A. Logli;</div> <bR> <div> <B>Has been knowingly perpetuated by efforts to validate the extortion scheme on the part of:</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     Winnebago County Judges Gerald F. Grubb, Janet Holmgren, Ronald L. Pirrello, Brian Dean Shore, John R. Truitt, Richard W. Vidal, to name a few;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     Winnebago County States Attorney Paul A. Logli and his assistants Wendy Larson, Charles Prorok, and others;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     Illinois State Police, Post 16 personnel;  Sgt. Lee L. Files #2536 and Trooper William Dettman #3603, to name a few;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     Vella & Lund, P.C. lawfirm, Barbara Giorgi Vella, and David Davitt of the lawfirm of Schlueter & Eklund lawfirm, both in Rockford, Illinois;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     Attorney Janet D. Fuenty, in private practice in Pecatonica, Illinois;</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b7011800000000.png" HEIGHT="19" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     Others so involved.</div> <bR> <div>       Wellsofjustice.org has reason to believe that this is not an isolated case but rather a well documented example of a nation-wide pattern of extortion schemes that are literally stealing real estate "<I>under color of official right</I>" of our banking and judicial systems.  </div> <bR> <div>      It is hoped that this web site, by exposing this particular Title Fraud and extortion Case, will make the public more aware of the attacks being made against the integrity of their Title Deeds to Real Estate across the United States.</div> <bR> <div>      Every statement of fact set forth on this website is supported either by the documents linked;  Public Documents contained in pertinent Court Records;  Public Records maintained by the Winnebago County Recorder's Office in Rockford, Illinois;  or by verifiable statements of the victims in this case.</div> <bR> <div>      This website is still under construction.  Efforts to expose this Title Fraud and extortion case, conducted "<I>under color of official right</I>" of our banking, corporate, judicial, and law enforcement systems, are progressing as time permits.  However, it will take time as this is a very long and documented case that apparently started in the early 1970's..  The construction phase of this website will be completed as soon as possible.  Thank you for your patience.</div> <bR> <div>      Wellsofjustice.org thanks you for your interest in this website and for any influence or effort you are able to bring to bear towards exposing or removing corrupt or inept judges, corrupt government officials and corporate officers as well as the prosecuting of those involved in court and/or corporate corruption.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Email:  </B><A HREF="mailto:victims@wellsofjustict.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:victims@wellsofjustict.org"><U><B>victims@wellsofjustice.org</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>