Justice gone backwards. It’s a sad day for the citizens of McHenry County.
Your best interest and my pursuit of justice took a backseat to the protectionism of ghosts, or someone living. As many of you know, I have filed an Appeal with the Public Access Bureau in response to the denial of information from my Freedom of Information Act request to the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office. I have been trying to get all the information and documentation to my father’s murder case. I have received a letter back from the Public Access Bureau.
When you read the letter that was sent to me from the Illinois States Attorney’s Office (Public Access Bureau or PAC), put yourself in my shoes. I do tech support for a living. My expertise is supply chain management and the applications that facilitate distribution of products and goods. In my free time my interests are history, business, national and global events, politics (boring stuff I know, but that’s me), music and learning to play the guitar. There is nothing in my background that suggests that I have any knowledge in the area of law, investigations, or auditing of any kind. These are the skills that seem to be required as a citizen if you pursue answers to questions that should have already been submitted to the public domain. How many of you possess these skills?
Apparently there has been an elevation in the response by the Sheriff’s Office, all though highly inappropriate. The response did not come from the Freedom of Information Act Officer, Ms. Jan Weech. She is trained in the standards of the Illinois Freedom of Information Act and has to take training annually to maintain her status as a Freedom of Information Act Officer for the sheriff’s department. The response was from Donald Leist, the EEO/Legal Affairs Officer.
His response is on McHenry County Sheriff’s Office letter head, but I understand him to work for McHenry County’s State’s Attorney’s Office. How did they get involved? Think about it. If you put a FOIA request to the IRS, you would not hear from the US Marshall’s Office. The research that I could do gives me the perception that he works for Sheriff Nygren. I am unsure if that is actually true or not, but he seems to show up whenever there is allegations against Sheriff Nygren. He goes into court and appears to delay or obstruct any proceedings against the Sheriff.
If this does not seem bizarre to you consider this, my father’s case is 32 years old. I have learned that Debbie Neumann (the reason why my father and Pat Freeman are dead) has died in 2010. There is virtually no one still alive in this case. The Sheriff’s Office has already named the murderer of my father and Pat to be Larry Neumann. Why is this case still open? Why am I in a vicious fight to get information that would seem to only harm ghosts of the dead involved in this case? Maybe it is not the dead that is needing protection, maybe it is among the living that is needing the protection, but who? Are you starting to see the machine?
Here are the links to the reply that I received from PAB and my response back to them. Please stay engage and follow my story, there seems to be something fishy going on!
IMPORTANT NOTE AND UPDATE: I understand now that Donald Leist use to work in McHenry County’s States Attorney’s office. He was then hired by Sheriff Keith Nygren. It looks like the Tax Payers of McHenry County had purchased the Sheriff Nygren is own attorney. This still does not qualify him to respond to my FOIA Appeal.
