Check the timing, will ya?

Just check out the timing on this one. A phone call from a reader alerted me to an article posted at 3:17PM today on the Northwest Herald's website:

"County wants deputy to pay sheriff's legal bill"

3:17PM
Friday
Day before holiday week-end
Government offices closed on Monday

It's all in the timing, folks...

Rather than have Seipler pay for the sheriff's legal bill, how about if we, the People, just get the State's Attorney to investigate Nygren? And, if he won't do it, how about the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor?

If the county's top cop is being associated (that is, allegedly being associated) with murder-for-hire solicitation, trafficking in illegal aliens, fraudulent loan documents, shouldn't that be investigated?

OF COURSE, IT SHOULD BE!!!

Did anybody ever attempt to confirm the authenticity of the FBI's letter that said accusations by fired Deputy Scott Milliman lacked prosecutive merts? That letter was immediately suspicious to me.

First of all, the FBI doesn't make those type of comments. Secondly, why would the FBI reveal anything about a case it had investigated? Thirdly, why would an underling at the FBI write to the second-in-command at a law enforcement agency about an investigation of his superior? Fourth, a File or Reference Number was conspicuously absent from the letter. Whoever heard of the FBI sending out an official document without a File Number?

Was the letter a fraud? Who furnished the letter to the Northwest Herald? Did the paper swallow it - hook, line and sinker?

Who dreamed up the idea of going after Seipler for the legal fees?

What "court documents" are there that are mentioned in Paragraph 2 of the story? There is nothing in the online Circuit Court records at this time. Did someone "leak" the filing to their friends at the Northwest Herald?

The first comment to the Northwest Herald online article hits the nail on the head: "They do not have the sense to quit, when they are ahead."

Remember when a guy from Marengo challenged Perry Moy's candidacy against Jack Franks a few years ago. Moy's attorney asked the Election hearing board to make the guy pay the hearing costs. His Chicago attorney said such a decision would have a "chilling effect" on every citizen. It's the same thing here.

Seipler's petition was not a frivolous action. Had it been, Judge Meyer would have tossed it very quickly. But it ran its course from January 2010 until April 25, 2012.

The State's Attorney, elected by The People of McHenry County, should investigate Nygren and, if warranted, seek to indict and then prosecute him. And, if he won't, somebody ought to know how to get the Illinois Appellate Prosecutor to go into action.

And we ought to have an investigative newspaper reporter in this county who is on the Peoples' side.