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Gladstone — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:21:12 GMT

I feel sad that Kevin Jay Long has gotten to hurt so many people and he thinks he is above the law and go after others without cause. How do I know? well he is my ex-brother-in-law that I took him to court for what he tried to do to my family and won all the court cases against him. If you look in to his past his 1st father-in-law a prominent cardiologist was taken for $30,000 by Kevin stealing it from his bank account. How identity thief. The father-in-law did not press charges against him so not to be Embarrassed...
Kevin will use the legal system to wiggle out of the charges. I hope that Joseph P McCaffery watches out Long is intelligent and yet educate derelict and is dangerous.

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Lino — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:44:15 GMT

WOW!!!! That's truly incredible!!! Just goes to show how backward the judicial system works. This guy is an obvious threat to society and he's allowed to skate because of some good behavior but, in the mean time, there are people who go to jail and are branded felon's, who's life's get turned upside down, just because they had a little weed on them.
It freaks me out to think that the public continues to go with the flow of idiocy, its truly mind blowing.
GOOD FOR YOU!!!

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Administrator — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:56:10 GMT

Yes. I believe if you read Judge Zagel's opinion (link in original post) there's mention of his interactions with law library personnel. Thanks for your insight.

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Administrator — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:37:31 GMT

Thanks for your insider's view PPDL! We've seen a lot of comments on various news stories and posts asking why Kevin Long wasn't put away, or at least watched closely, much sooner.

What we've heard from a lot of individuals who were directly affected by Kevin Long is that they were afraid - of both physical harm and/or having to defend a lawsuit.

Frivolous or not, defending a lawsuit costs money - to both the defendant and the taxpayers who are supporting the court system. Few were willing to take that risk. Joe Yost is an example of why.

Besides the actual costs of his first attorney before we came in (our costs are being deferred pending collection from Mr. Long in the ongoing malicious prosecution matter) Joe Yost suffered irreparable damage to his career.

Finally, members of our firm know Roger Konow and Willie Hogan and their opinion...well, let's just say they were "every man for themselves" kinds of guys. Not our ideal choices for holding positions of public trust. One would think that the story about their "sudden" departure from the park district should have gotten at least half the attention that Mr. Long's story finally did in the past week!

So just for kicks we Googled to try to find an archived news story about that "incident." Here's what we got:

Your search - "roger konow" AND "william hogan" AND "chicago park district" - did not match any documents.

Amazing how far the hand of politics can reach!

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PattiParkDistrictLady — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:09:16 GMT

There's lots of friends of Chicago Park District CEO Tim Mitchell and Mayor Daley that know all about Kevin Long.

They have lots of records of Kevin in incident reports, that might be burned or stay locked away in Tim Mitchell's file cabinet.

Roger Konow and his underlings had meetings on how they would "screw over Mr Yost', for causing them to actually do their job.

THEY COULD HAVE put security at Wilson Park to defend the park workers.They could have provided legal counsel to the employees getting sued.

Instead Park folks decided to blacklist him. Tom Bracey former Park District Supervisor and Manager stated that his boss Roger Konow from the Park's North Region wanted to "send Yost to the dogs over at Stateway Gardens, let's see him teach music there" said Konow.

Tom Bracey, William Hogan, Becky Kliber and Roger Konow were all aware of the problems with Kevin Long. What did they do:

Sun Times reported that Roger Konow and William Hogan lost their jobs with the park district, something about missing cash is what Lynn Sweet reported. Boy that story was muted fast! Then they magically re appear, with jobs, with the sister of the park district, Chicago Public Schools, way to go ARNIE , these guys showed up at your schools on your watch! I bet Arnie knows both these guys personally from political functions.

Tom Bracey resigned from the parks, JUST IN TIME! Just in time to get away from the sun times report. He had other things to worry about, like having an affair with his co worker Becky Kliber, on Park time, in hotels paid for by the Park District. No one wants this in the papers, that's why the papers fail to talk about Daley's buddy's at the Chicago Park District.

Kevin Long was very active at the Park District and only a few brave souls decided to do what was right. Way to go to all you people who do the right thing! Those political phonies and cronies will get their day in the paper soon.

I worked at Wilson Park, I know what happened. So does everyone in the neighborhood, I hope the REAL story comes out. I wish the Alderman would have stepped up to the plate and done something, afterall, Kevin Long was going after his family before the Yost family turned him in.

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sadsackmac — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:41:45 GMT

I met Mr. Long when I worked in the Dirksen building. He was a notorious filer of junk lawsuits. He was also banned from the Northern District law library for propositioning interns. Mr. Long was apparently even more appalling than I knew.

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Administrator — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:16:53 GMT

Matt, Thanks for your comment. Yes, Joe Yost did have an enormous fight on his hands and it's outrageous that he didn't get the support from those who were supposed to be backing him...which is what makes his battle even more heroic. The issue that you reference re his former boss - that's a whole other story we may cover here someday. Sadly that kind of behavior seems to be throughout Chicago government.

And thanks for reminding us about the phone messages...we have a few of those too. Perhaps our Webmaster will get some audio posted to accompany this story. We've seen a lot of naysayers on the newspaper comments - suggesting the guy was harmless - but we all know better. Perhaps the sound of Long's voice and hearing his threats will convince them if Joe Yost's story doesn't.

We ecourage everyone to check out the links in this post - Judge Zagel's opinion in particular - as that just demonstrates Long's complete disregard for the law and judicial process...nearly as much as his attempt to enter Daley Center with weapons in his briefcase showed.

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Matt — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:38:23 GMT

A related story is how the parks dept threw (Emery) Joe Yost to the wolves providing no legal help when the frivolous lawsuits started piling up, and Long began harassing Joe at work to get him fired, and tried to get him kicked out of night school when he was working on his masters degree. Long invents some pack of lies to the univeristy president that forces a full scale 3-month ethics investigation; its a one year degree program, double hit because his mentor had to recuse herself. He was cleared, but it weighs heavily on your head knowing that his lie might somehow prevail.

Long sues the cops and Joe, and the arch bishop of chicago and anybody else that Long thinks he can screw with, at least they get legal assistance. Screw Joe, its his problem, not the park district.

Then Joe’s boss who tried to keep this hush hush and asked him to fall on his sword and quit his job; that guy goes down for over $100k embezzlement from the parks department. I guess he and the higher ups at the park had more important things to do than protect their employees and patrons against a menace like this.

Start looking at the leaders (park & judicial) and you will find a bunch of scared cockroaches who did not want to deal with this tar baby and were comfortably ok that Joe gets screwed over by their inaction.

Joe actually had one of his fellow employees tell him he should not have gotten involved! He is the adult in charge at the park responsible for the safety of kids.

What should he do, let Long molest the kid and he look the other way? Sounds like that might be what some people would do.

Its not like Joe woke up one day looking to meet and get sued by this piece of garbage, who is a paralegal.

He was doing the ethical thing by stopping it and calling the cops. If he did not do this, his life would not have crossed with Long.

Dig into this and you will get a story about why government does not work, screw the little guy because the fat cats won’t lift a finger when they are legally supposed to.

I live in Texas, it just amazes me this goes on in Chicago. I guess it comes down to somebody is going to have to get killed like the Lefkow case before somebody says we got to do something. My guess is that Long will be out in a few months after serving time at prison-lite. He is good at polishing boots and kissing ass if he thinks it will pull one over.

I got audio recordings of this whack job trying to intimidate me long distance. The fool leaves messages on the answer machines, very explicit.

But he has not killed anybody yet and there are bigger problems like some low level pot bust or somebody the CJ system feels they do an easy conviction by pleading guilty.

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