Annabelle Melongo in Chicago, indicted in 2007 for computer tampering despite clear evidence that a now defunct shady foundation's computer at SALF did not have financial data permanently erased - data which proves their CEO Spizzirri committed fraud in obtaining millions from the government to train kids by computer in CPR - has still eight months later been denied a hearing on a petition for writ of habeas corpus.
When Melongo gathered evidence to defend herself she tape-recorded the court reporter because she believed the transcript was altered from a pretrial hearing. However this is a felony crime in IL to record someone without their permission. The one exception is if you have a reasonable belief that the person committed or will commit a crime. Melongo was charged with eavesdropping and her bail on the computer tampering was excessively raised from $10,000 personal recognizance bond to $500,000 bail.
Many question this case against Melongo as politically motivated to cover-up involvement of prominent politicians in aiding Spizzirri in obtaining government funds.
Friday's trial on this eavesdropping resulted in a hung jury. This is a whopper of a story about corruption in Illinois and how whistle blowers are defamed and shut-up in order to protect the corrupt.
Please note that some links to Examiner.com are no longer good as Examiner.com has removed all of Shelton's articles that criticize IL AG Lisa Madigan or Court Clerk Dorothy Brown. Shelton's articles contain evidence of their criminal conduct. Examiner.com refuses to allow Shelton to appeal their decision. Please also note that the Huffington Post also has banned Shelton from commenting without explanation. Shelton has made no inappropriate comments, used no foul language, and made no statements that she cannot support. Huffington Post appears to want to prevent anyone from posting anything negative (especially with unequivocal evidence) about Lisa Madigan or Dorothy Brown or any judges of the Cook County Courts.
A substitute article can be found at the Cincinnatti Beacon here, for some of the missing information.
Further evidence of criminal acts of treason by IL AG Lisa Madigan, Clerk Dorothy Brown and a number of Cook County Judges can be found at this blog.
This is a story the corrupt in Illinois don't want you to hear! Read more details concerning the background of this story here.
After reading it consider writing to the U.S. Attorney at the Dept. of Justice and demand an investigation at: U.S. Dept. of Justice, FBI, Civil Rights Unit, Criminal Investigative Division, Washington, DC 20535-0001.
To protect our constitutional rights this story deserves a massive public outcry. Many talk, but legal and persuasive action is needed. Won't you walk the walk to protect constitutional rights?
Melongo’s trial on eavesdropping ended in a hung jury yesterday so she will be re-tried. The prosecution said she was “trying to manipulate the system” and “a danger to the court system”, because she was “attacking the court system” by “trying to change history” and saying “she was never arraigned,” in order to get off on a charge of computer tamperingregarding Save-A-Life Foundation ("SALF")computers, which this reporter believes to be a false charge.
Of note: Recording a conversation without the other person's permission, especially if it harms no one is not a crime in most states, yet it is a felony in IL. The charge is almost never used by prosecutors in IL. Why is it being used here? Ask yourself if this is political.
The state tried to paint Melongo as a deranged and evil person who was guilty of computer tampering before she's even been tried on that charge. They played off of the string of previous Tucson-like tragedies by implying that Melongo was crazy and stating that Melongo was making up false conspiracy theories about the state attacking her for complaining about involvement of prominent politicians. The stickler however is that an Emmy winning reporter, Chuck Goudie, has already revealed that prominent politicians were involved and that SALF fraudulently obtained millions from the federal and several state governments and cannot account for how the money was used. However, the court didn't allow the jury to hear this fact. The result was introduction of bias to the jury - fueled by the fires of using the words "conspiracy", implying mental illness, ironically a day before the Tucson tragedy.
The State is trying to make it a federal case for an innocent person to be furious and upset about a false charge and then try to pick apart the charge, gather detailed evidence to defend oneself, and question court personnel whom you believe are aiding in this false charge by tampering with a transcript. Even if Melongo is wrong about the alteration of the transcript, doesn't she have a right to defend herself and be nit picky about it? Should a court allow a prosecutor to bias the jury with inflammatory and defamatory rhetoric? I thought President Obama just appealed for the country to make statements that heal and not wound, as well as to allow the justice system to look into the facts and find the truth! Shouldn't the court be seeking truth not encouraging injustice by biasing a jury and making a mockery of justice with inflammatory language.
Copious evidence reveals that the IL Attorney General computer investigator found the SALF computer was accessed with an AT&T computer IP address. Melongo had a contract with SBC and an SBC IP address. Therefore she could not have accessed the SALF computer remotely. There may actually be evidence that a different SALF disgruntled employee may have been illegally accessing e-mails remotely, but still no evidence the data was actually permanently erased.
In addition the indictment says that the data was "permanently erased". Spizzirri's own expert she hired wrote the data was not erased, but that it had become difficult to access. No one including Goudie has followed-up on the fact that the use of the grant money has not been accounted for. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who was former CEO of the Chicago Public School admitted to Goudie on camera that the CPS gave SALF $50,000 per year for several years and has no proof any child was trained in CPR.
Melongo went to the FBI with her evidence and the U.S. Attorney still has not indicted Spizzirri or others at SALF. FBI Special Agent Depooter even testified on Friday that Melongo has a reasonable suspicion that a crime had been committed, not just fraud by SALF, but that the transcripts in her computer tampering case may have been altered.
Clearly there is no probable cause for the charge of eavesdropping as Melongo had a reasonable belief the transcripts were altered.
For the State to inflame the passions of the jury, thus producing bias, with allegations that Melongo is crazy and has false conspiracy theories is outrageous. Why are they not indicting Spizzirri for fraud? Spizzirri is the star witness against Melongo in the computer tampering case. Spizzirri obtained millions schmoozing with politicians and there are even photos of her at the White House during the Bush years.
So where's the beef? No crime has been committed as the data was not erased, as well as Melongo could not have accessed the computer at the time the state expert says it was accessed. Without probable cause in either the computer tampering case or the eavesdropping case, under the 4th Amendment, detention is unconstitutional and open to challenge with an habeas petition.
The right to file an habeas petition is our highest right in the criminal justice system to question detention when being held without probable cause. IL law even provides for the IL Attorney General to charge the judges with refusing to hear a habeas petition promptly and the $1,000 fine against the judge would be paid, by law, to the defendant. Fat chance that any judge will be charged. The right to request a writ of habeas corpus has been suspended in Cook County, and Judge McHale has even made ita crime for a non-attorney to file a next-friend habeas petition(something that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Souter said was legal and a fundamental constitutional right in a footnote in Boumadine v Bush, a 2008 case where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that even Guantanamo Bay prisoners have a right to have a non-attorney family member file an habeas petition).
The United States Supreme Court defined treason by a judge as refusing to follow law or their rulings - which is the case here. The habeas petition is still pending after eight months and the judges refuse to schedule a date to hear it. IL law requires a habeas petition be heard "promptly" and that "a person on behalf of another" may file it. (735 ILCS Article X) Trial is still pending on the computer tampering charge.
Annabelle Melongo a dual Cameroonian and Haitian citizen living in the U.S. who worked as an information technology expert for SALF, until she discovered that they were fraudulently obtaining millions in federal and state grant money to train kids in CPR by computer still has been denied a most essential fundamental constitutional right - now for eight months. That is the right to petition the court for a writ of habeas corpus to show the court she is being held without probable cause.
Judge Mary Margaret Brosnahan raised bail to $500,000 saying she was a flight risk because she had dual passports from Haiti and Cameroon. When did it become a crime to hold dual passports? When did it become a criteria for high bail to be a foreign citizen legally in the U.S.? When did computer tampering, when no one was hurt, and the company doesn't even still exist, warrant bail akin to that of a murderer?
Shortly after Emmy award winning investigative reporter Chuck Goudie rattled the Save-A-Life Foundation CEO, Carol Spizzirri by asking her to show records as to how the money was spent and after he revealed she claimed to be a nurse on her grant applications but actually never worked in a hospital except as a candy striper, SALF fired Melongo and went to the police and alleged Melongo had remotely tampered with their computer files and erased all the data so they couldn't prove how the money was spent. How convenient! Investigative reporters with the help of Spizzirri's ex-husband have revealed extensive fraud by Spizzirri and that numerous prominent politicians have assisted Spizzirri in obtaining grants, while totally failing to do due diligence to find out about the legitimacy of SALF and the honesty of their CEO.
Melongo’s attorney pointed out that it is a crime in IL (petty offense) for the court clerk not to keep proper court records. After all the statutes provide that as her main job. The court clerk’s records in three places (electronic docket, judge's half sheet, and court computer sheet) reveal Melongo was NOT arraigned on June 19, 2008.
It is also a crime to alter or falsify a transcript and court reporters are supposed to keep accurate records. The court transcript says she was arraigned.
Therefore either the clerk committed a petty offense by not recording a significant event like an arraignment or the court reporter committed a crime by preparing a false transcript and stating she was arraigned for computer tampering when she was not. Both the clerk and court reporter can’t be correct.
It is illegal in IL to record another person without their permission - this is a FELONY! In most states, this is not even a crime. There is an exception. If you have a “reasonable suspicion” that the person you are recording committed a crime, or was about to commit a crime, you can record them without permission.
Melongo recorded the court reporters when she talked to them. She harmed no one. She was just convinced that one way she could get rid of this fraudulent charge was to prove the exception that she had a reasonable suspicion that a crime had been, was, or was going to be committed by the person on the other side of the phone.
She had a reasonable suspicion that she was not arraigned and the clerk was correct and there was what she THOUGHT was purposeful error with the transcript. She thought the fact that the transcript said she was arraigned was not correct because she really believes, after reading the law and understanding it to the best of her ability that she was NOT arraigned and therefore the case has to be dismissed, which would have saved her the expense of a defense and protected her ability to maintain a job and make an income in the field she loves.
Her web site, "illinoiscorruption.net" where she posted EVERYTHING about the computer tampering case - all evidence received in discovery, transcripts of records, documents she subpoenaed proving her innocence, is no longer functioning because while in jail for eight months now she has not paid the bill, so the links from this site no longer work.
Melongo has nothing to hide. The State officials and politicians have a lot to hide if you read the posts about SALF on this Internet here and through links on that post.