Here is the order issued by McHenry County Circuit Court Judge Michael Caldwell in response to a motion made by Algonquin Township Clerk Karen Lukasik:
Here is the order issued by McHenry County Circuit Court Judge Michael Caldwell in response to a motion made by Algonquin Township Clerk Karen Lukasik:
Kind of makes it sound like Gasser is the one trying to steal records. How did this circus manage to go this much sideways? Something really stinks.
So she needs a step stool or something?
wHY NOT POST THE MOTION ALSO cAL SO EVERYONE CAN READ THE ALLEGATIONS AND EXHIBITS AGAINST YOUR PAL GASSER?
THEN PEOPLE CAN SEE WHAT OUR NEW HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER AND HIS PALS HAVE REALLY BEEN UP TO??
Hey Gooch why not post about all the criminal allegations your pal Miller is facing so everyone can hear it and stop defending that clown as some sort of johnnie-be-good township hero
Why Not Both?
It would seem Chuck let Andrew have free access to the records and Karen thinks original records are missing.
Apparently Karen doesn’t have a list of all the records removed and not put back right away, this leads to a problem with doctoring.
We keep hearing more to come from Team Transparent, well what are you hiding?
Let’s hope the video wasn’t doctored already, it will answer some of the questions on where the records went.
Cindy this may hurt, I agree with you point.
Your, ya 👌.
Looks to me as a, he files, she files, rinse, and repeat.
I don’t read any accusation into the order.
Although, if anyone has proof of Gasser threatening to destroy township records, possibly on the world wide web?
Maybe IDK, on a social media site?
I’d enjoy reading that.
Looks like the Russian twist again.
Ignore the content, nobody needs to know.
If you have them, share them.
Cal, share the motion.
Why not both?
Someone email Cal
AND please post a link
OR email cal, then post a link two days later when he fails to post them.
Here’s the thing about preliminary injunctions.
If the motion alleges that the status quo will change without relief, a judge will always grant it unless the enjoined party can prove the injunction will cause damage.
With respect to allegations of record destruction (even if frivolous) there can be no real injury from granting the injunction, especially with respect to public records which are presumed to be available to the public.
I’d like to see the motion as well, but just like the complaints filed, I wouldn’t trust any allegation made in it.
You can’t get a defamation claim from pleadings in a court case–there’s a special type of immunity that applies.
So, lawyers are basically free to slander the hell out of the other side in pleadings unless they go so incredibly far that the judge sanctions them for it (which never happens, and especially never happens in front of Mike Caldwell).
If you people who have an axe to grind against Gasser were smart, you wouldn’t be picking on him for entry of the injunction or the salacious allegations in the motion that secured it.
Instead you should be asking why his $20k retainer, hotshot lawyer didn’t get reciprocal prohibitions against Lukasik, or even better, get an order that all the records be deposited in a safe repository (corporate America uses Iron Mountain and similar vendors).
This is rookie-level stuff that I can’t imagine wasn’t requested.
Publius, I’m not an attorney, and I probably know less than even I think I do.
Wasn’t it Mr. Gasser’s attorney’s first action, to request an order to secure, and protect all township records?
There was most certainly a publicly made threat to destroy township record’s, but it wasn’t made by Mr. Gasser, or Mr. Lutzow.
Please correct me if you know differently, but I saw this as Lukasik’s reciprocal response.
Which to me, then means nothing.
It’s just a you filed against me, so I’ll file against you, so to say.
So is Gasser trying to destroy records or something?
Robert, I haven’t seen anything that accuses Mr. Gasser of that.
What I have read is that he’s still trying to locate many of them.
Look at my first comment under the posting.
Keep in mind that the court and the attorneys have now seen the video recorded camera footage covering the time leading up to the turnover of seats and immediately following.
I haven’t seen much news on that (which makes one wonder if it is now also evidence in a criminal investigation?), but you can’t analyze what the court is doing with these injunction/TROs without giving weight to what everybody beyond the bar in that courtroom knows but isn’t yet talking about.
I don’t believe the court has seen much, if any, of the Algonquin Township camera recordings.