VANDALISM, AGGRESSION, AND ATTEMPT OF ABDUCTION

  On February 2. 2014, I was supposed to travel from Macomb to meet my spouse in Chicago  using the Amtrak train. Scheduled to departure at 7 am, the train arrived at the Macomb station at 10 am. Curiously, about five miles after the train left the Macomb train station, it was directed to another track, away from the normal Macomb-Chicago track and stationed for about 4 hours. Around 3 pm, the train was redirected to the normal track toward Galesburg, and again stopped a few miles away from the station for about 2 hours. After Galesburg, the train was repeatedly pulled away from the normal track and stationed on side tracks in the forest without any update to the small pool of passengers until late in the night. Luckily, I was updating my wife and other persons from another state. Around 9:30 pm, my wife who was concerned about this bizarre delay called the Customer’s Service of Amtrak in Chicago to know why the train scheduled to be in Chicago at 10:45 am was still stationed in the forest at 9:30 pm. She was instructed by the Amtrak Customer Service that records indicated that the train from Macomb to Chicago was already in Chicago since 9:45 am. My wife made a complaint to this service but also sent additional messages to the company website to alert Amtrak about her son and husband being kept in the train for more than 10h. Around 10:00 pm, the train was redirected to Chicago and reached the train station around 11 pm. What happened that day had nothing to do with a mechanical problem because Amtrak has the tradition to send a bus to accommodate passengers whenever a serious mechanical problem unpairs the traffic. Passengers are not kept inside the train for 10h. This incident happened while I was actively looking for a new attorney to replace a previous I terminated for unprofessional behavior. It appeared that everything was planned in Illinois to prevent me from taking the legal case forward. What I experienced that day resembled an attempt of abduction. 

  In my search for a legal representation, 68 law offices in Illinois refused to represent me although the large majority recognized that I have a very strong case. Some of them simply told me that I will go nowhere against WIU and the Illinois Attorney General. Late February 2014, a Chicago lawyer agreed to take my case forward. After he charged me $10, 000 as retention fee, he inserted numerous false statements including a misrepresentation of the content of the WIU President’s letter to terminate me. He also replaced the name of the defendants Western Illinois University et al. with a high school in Chicago. When I asked him to correct the misrepresentation, he requested my tax returns as a condition to any correction. I later found out that the $10,000 he charged me for retention fee was 2.5 times higher than the amount of money he normally charges his clients. This lawyer did nothing to serve the case he was paid for, and violated the agreement he signed. In August 2014, I was forced to separate from him and the federal court allowed me 30 days to find another attorney.