My name is Gus Philpott, and I am a resident of District 5.
In January 2010 Zane Seipler filed a
Petition in McHenry County Circuit Court, seeking a Special
Prosecutor to investigate Sheriff Keith Nygren for numerous criminal
improprieties.
On April 25 of this year Judge Thomas
Meyer declined to approve a special prosecutor and ruled that the
State's Attorney should investigate.
Had Judge Meyer ever believed that this
case was frivolous, he would have ended the case far short of its
27-month duration. The involvement of Attorney William Caldwell
should have ended on that date, except for reporting and billing.
However, a month later, on Thursday,
May 25, Attorney Caldwell filed a Petition for Sanctions against Zane
Seipler, a private citizen and resident of McHenry County, and his
lawyer, Blake Horwitz.
Late on Friday afternoon, May 26, the
start of a holiday week-end, the Northwest Herald reported this
filing and referred to “the County” as having filed it which,
indeed, it had. The problem was that “the County” wasn't
identified. No name of anyone associated with the County could be
found within the article.
On May 30, FirstElectricNewspaper.com
published this statement, “County Board Chairman Ken Koehler told
FEN (First Electric Newspaper) Tuesday he ordered the request without
consulting other Board members.”
If this statement is accurate, and I
have no doubt that it is, how can one Board member, even the
Chairman, order a civil legal action by the County against a County
resident without consideration, decision and authorization by the
County Board? This action will incur legal expense by the County and
could open it to very substantial, new, legal expense.
This is an outrageous, retaliative
action and must be halted by this Board. I ask this Board to refuse
to pay any bill for legal fees for this Petition for Sanctions and to
direct the law firm of Caldwell, Berner & Caldwell to cease its
work until such time as legal authorization is given, if ever.
Gus Philpott
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