IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT
EASTERN DIVISION

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,       ]       Appeal from the United
                                                ]       States District Court for
                        Plaintiff.              ]       the Northern District of
                                                ]       Illinois, Eastern
                v.                              ]       Division.
                                                ]
MICHAEL WILLIAMS,                       ]       No. 88 CR 204
                                                ]
                        Defendant.              ]       JUDGE LEINENWEBER,
                                                ]       Judge.
                                                ]


DEFENDANT-APPELLANT MICHAEL WILLIAMS'
CONDENSED INDEX OF WILLIAM J. STEVENS' 
MAJOR ETHICAL AND CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS 
PRO SE APPELLANT

The following is a condensed index of my former court-appointed attorney,
William J. 
Stevens' major ethical and criminal violations which were perpetrated upon me.
Due to 
the unfortunate restrictions of time and space, my deteriorating health, as
well as my lack 
of access to crucial documentation unlawfully seized from me, I have
unfortunately only 
been able to set forth a portion of those violations which occurred. They
include, but are 
not limited to, the following:

1.      William J. Stevens did not provide me with competent counsel.
        From the beginning, William J. Stevens attempted to gain my trust in order to 
procure confidential information from me and terrorise me into pleading guilty.
At no time 
did he represent me in the manner  of a defence counsel interested in defending
his client, 
protecting his rights, and proving his innocence.

2.      William J. Stevens violated our attorney-client relationship.
        William J. Stevens violated our attorney-client relationship in many ways. One
of 
the first instances was his providing the F.B.I. and U.S. Attorney's Office
with 
confidential information I had entrusted to him under the condition that it
remain 
confidential between us. He literally ran to the F.B.I. and U.S. Attorney's
Office 
immediately after receiving the first confidential information I provided to
him. He 
returned shortly thereafter to tell me "they said to thank you for the
information".




3.      William J. Stevens refused to prepare for trial. 
        William J. Stevens' only interests were in terrifying me into pleading guilty
and 
providing information to the F.B.I. and U.S. Attorney's Office. He clearly
never had the 
slightest intentions of going  to trial. 

4.      William J. Stevens refused to file any appropriate motions. 
        During my court proceedings, to the best of my knowledge, William J. Stevens 
never filed a single motion in my behalf, despite my constant pleas.

5.      William J. Stevens refused to obtain copies of any court transcripts 
or other substantive documents.
        William J. Stevens refused to provide me with copies of any court transcripts
or 
other substantive documents. He ignored my many requests for transcripts, in
particular, 
the transcripts of my sentencing in the court of Hon. Harry Leinenweber and the

transcript from the change of plea hearing in the court of the Hon. George
Marovich. I 
recently received a highly inaccurate, edited version of the transcript of the
hearing in 
Hon. George Marovich's court through my own assiduous efforts, spanning nearly 
seven years. I recently received a copy of an inaccurate sentencing transcript
from 
attorney Robert G. Clarke.

6.      William J. Stevens refused to challenge Chicago as proper venue.
        The crime that I was charged with involved Pioneer America Corporation's (a 
Delaware corporation) ordering computer paper from companies primarily in the
Chicago 
area, and not paying the invoices in a timely manner. The F.B.I. has admitted
that the 
product was ordered by Edward Smolinsky, from Seattle, Washington. If I had
actually 
participated in the offence, (if it was, indeed, an offence, which I do not
believe), since I 
had never been to Chicago, Colorado was the proper jurisdiction to try me in,
not Illinois. 
The U.S. Code even goes so far as to clearly state that when there is a
question of where 
jurisdiction lies, in such cases, it shall lie in the jurisdiction of the
Defendant, for his 
convenience, since he is only an Accused and not convicted of any offence. When
I 
constantly complained about the issue of venue, William J. Stevens merely
laughed and 
uttered such remarks as "I guess this'll teach you not to mess around with
Chicago!"

        Permitting the prosecution to try me in a distant improper jurisdiction placed
a 
tremendously cruel hardship on my family, resulting in their becoming, in
essence, 
unwilling "wards of the State" and eventually resulting in the breakup of my
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something F.B.I. Special Agent Richard Loyd, Metropolitan Correctional Center
Case 
Manager Jerry Urbanek, and many others within the government had threatened me
with 
from the moment of my arrest. It also played a predominant role in my
eventually entering 
a guilty plea.

        Agent Richard Loyd and Assistant U.S. Attorney Laurie Barsella both admitted 
that I was not the person who had, in fact, ordered the computer paper over the
telephone; 
that it was Edward Smolinsky, a resident of Seattle, Washington, and a fugitive
from 
justice with an extensive criminal record whom I had never even met. Agent Loyd
stated 
that the F.B.I. had "had some jurisdictional problems in getting the Seattle
F.B.I. to 
cooperate" with the Chicago F.B.I. because Edward Smolinksky had not been to
Chicago 
either, but had ordered the product over the telephone from Seattle. In other
words, Agent 
Loyd convinced the Denver F.B.I. to do what the Seattle F.B.I. was unwilling to
do. 
Since Agent Loyd was unable to have Edward Smolinsky improperly removed from
his 
proper home jurisdiction and taken to the improper jurisdiction of Chicago, he
had me 
taken there.

8.      William J. Stevens refused to challenge my improper removal from 
Colorado.

        Legal work pertaining to my improper removal from Colorado should have been 
amongst the first work William J. Stevens performed on my case, but despite my 
continuous pleas, he refused to ever say a word about my improper removal from 
Colorado.

9.      William J. Stevens refused to challenge the indictment.

        William J. Stevens never raised a single question regarding my indictment or
its 
validity, despite my constantly demanding that he do so. He even refused to
obtain and 
provide me with a copy of the Minutes of the Special Grand Jury, so that it
could be 
determined if the indictment was even legally handed down.

10.     William J. Stevens refused to request a standard bail hearing. 

        William J. Stevens refused to request a hearing for my Eighth Amendment right
to 
bail. He clearly did this in the hopes of "wearing" me "down". This is, of
course, a 
Prosecutor's most effective tool, akin to medieval torture methods. Without it,
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defendants, particularly those innocent of the crime they are charged with,
would be far 
more reluctant to enter a plea of guilty. By refusing to request a standard
bail hearing, 
there was no hope of my being released on my own recognizance, something which
is 
common for those charged with non-violent white collar crimes, or of my raising
and 
remaining free on bail pending trial. William J. Stevens needed me to be "worn
down" so 
I would be more inclined to accept his nefarious offers and be deceived by his
dirty 
tricks. My family, friends, acquaintances and I constantly pleaded with him to
request a 
bail hearing, but he refused. This is one of the most simple elements of legal
defence 
representation, and William J. Stevens violated it in order to please his
friends in the 
F.B.I. and U.S. Attorney's Office.

11.     William J. Stevens forced me to aggressively solicit wealthy private 
clients for him. 
        William J. Stevens forced me to aggressively solicit wealthy clients for his
private 
practise for him from the ranks of my fellow prisoners in the Metropolitan
Correctional 
Center, repeatedly telling me that was the only way he would be "inspired" to
perform 
any required legal services for me. In files not presently available to me, I
have the names 
of several of these individuals. They were mostly wealthy drug dealers. 

        One Jamaican gangster I referred to William J. Stevens dealt in large
quantities of 
cocaine, utilising the cellular telephones in his fleet of BMWs to sell the
drugs, stating it 
was nearly impossible for the authorities to tap into his conversations while
his car was 
quickly moving. The prisoner sported a Rastafarian hairstyle with extremely
long 
"dreadlocks", was very tall and had several children.

        At one point, after I had delivered many potential clients to William J.
Stevens, he 
offered to pay a "commission" directly to my wife if I could "close the deal"
on another 
potential Jamaican drug dealer client.

        Another client I referred to William J. Stevens was a gigantic, obese, young
black 
drug dealer from the state of Indiana. I think his case was in the South Bend
jurisdiction. 
He was approximately twenty-one-years old. He did not trust William J. Stevens
and 
therefore did not retain him. He received a harsh sentence for his drug
offences, which 
was approximately fifteen years under the then "new guidelines". 

        One potential client was apparently being extradited to San Diego, California.

When he was removed from the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center before
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J. Stevens was able to extract a retainer fee from him, William J. Stevens had
me contact 
my attorney friend, Robert J. Bourne, in San Diego, California, to try to make 
arrangements for Bourne to represent him, and send a commission to me, which I,
in 
turn, would be required to present to William J. Stevens. Mr. Bourne refused to
go along 
with this arrangement.

        I was convinced that things would have turned out much worse for me if I had
not 
provided William J. Stevens with client referrals. For example, he refused to
speak with 
sentencing consultant Marshall Rosner, whose services I desired, despite many
telephone 
calls and visits from my supporters, until I had referred a client to him. At
this time, 
several individuals, including my wife, my friends, Dr. Glenn Brooke, Peter
Syer, 
Michael Cross, and others, were well aware that William J. Stevens did not want
to do 
anything that should be done, or that I wanted done, including speaking to
Marshall 
Rosner regarding his sentence consulting services.

12.     William J. Stevens coerced and tricked me into pleading guilty.
        After physical torture in the prison was unsuccessful at wrenching a guilty
plea 
out of me, William J. Stevens resorted to psychological torture: shortly after
the birth of 
my second daughter, Shannon Elise Williams, he falsely informed me that she was
dying 
of spinal meningitis, and that the U.S. Attorney had agreed to allow me to be
escorted by 
U.S. Marshals to her deathbed in Georgia. When I arrived in court, he changed
the 
agreement: I had to plead guilty in order to be allowed to leave immediately
for Georgia. 
Since, as any good father, I could not live with the thought of my daughter
dying without 
ever seeing her, I reluctantly agreed. As it turned out, my daughter was not
dying. It was 
a lie. So was the agreement. I received a two year sentence with five years'
consecutive 
probation. William J. Stevens went on holidays. 

13.     William J. Stevens continued to refuse to protect my rights even 
after I was sentenced.
        As I had been denied all of my other rights, I was also denied the right to
apply 
for early release on parole, or transfer to a halfway house at the end of my
sentence and I 
ended up serving more time on a two year sentence than most other inmates
served on six 
year sentences, perhaps even longer. William J. Stevens promised to "take care
of it", 
but, as always, did nothing.

        Even though it is official Bureau of Prisons policy to designate federal
prisoners 
to the facility nearest to their family, even though I had been separated from
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over a year, even though I had a 9-month-old daughter who didn't even know me,
even 
though I was considered a "non-violent white collar criminal", I was sent to
the infamous 
Marion Federal Prison. I was apparently the only prisoner there who was not
within close 
proximity of his family. Again, William J. Stevens promised to "take care of
it", but did 
nothing.

        After my eventual release, I took a Greyhound bus to Georgia to reunite with
my 
family, arriving on the Saturday before Thanksgiving 1989. When I reported to
the 
probation officer on Monday morning, he ordered me to "take the next bus out"
to San 
Diego, California, threatening to cause me "more trouble" than I'd "ever seen"
if I wasn't 
"on that bus". This was clearly far beyond any authority this man had, and I
immediately 
called William J. Stevens, who again promised to "take care of it", but did
nothing. He 
gave me a time to call him back, but he wouldn't even come to the telephone
when I 
called him back at the designated time. I didn't want to be returned to prison
again, 
especially after just being released, and I had no attorney to protect my
rights, so I took 
the "next bus out to San Diego" that evening. 

        I arrived penniless and homeless at the San Diego Greyhound bus station, in
the 
heart of the downtown San Diego ghetto on Thanksgiving morning: the
Thanksgiving 
holiday my family and I had looked forward to spending together for so long. I
made a 
"collect" telephone call to them to wish them "Happy Thanksgiving". When my
elder 
daughter, Erin Rose Williams, (aged 3 1/2 years), came to the telephone, she
was crying. 
She asked: "How much more are they going to hurt us, Daddy?" I have the same
question 
as I sit here in distant exile today.

        Upon being exiled to San Diego, I asked William J. Stevens to file a motion
with 
the federal court in Chicago asking for permission to return to Georgia. He
refused to do 
it until I had personally drafted the motion, and informed him I was preparing
to send it 
directly to the court. Several months later, the court ruled I could go to
Georgia. William 
J. Stevens then warned me that visiting Georgia was dangerous, as I'd made
enemies 
there with the U.S. Probation Department, the F.B.I. and others, by demanding
my 
rights. The government succeeded in their threat to break up my family.

14.     William J. Stevens conspired with the F.B.I. and U.S. Attorney's 
Office to exile me to Switzerland.
        After making it impossible for me to have any sort of a relationship at all
with my 
children or other members of my family, in June 1991, the government, through
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F.B.I., U.S. Probation Department and U.S. Attorney's Office, with the full
cooperation 
and participation of William J. Stevens, pressured me into going into exile in
Switzerland 
for fear of my life and freedom. Having had virtually everything taken away
from me, 
from all of my property to my family, there was nothing left for me in the
country I loved 
and had tried so hard to serve, except pain and terror. I could not take any
more. For me, 
the United States of America had become the "United States of Fear".

15.     William J. Stevens extorted $1,600 from my fiancee.
        Before my exile to Switzerland, William J. Stevens extorted $1,600 from my 
fiancee, Silvia Niklaus, for "legal fees" he was, as my court-appointed
indigent attorney, 
not entitled to when, at his request, she wired him funds he falsely informed
her were 
urgently required to pay an erroneous utility bill I had received. She was told
that the 
funds were required in order to avoid an inevitable probation violation.

16.     William J. Stevens ignored my request to file appeals after my 
sentencing.
        Immediately after my sentencing, I advised William J. Stevens, while still in
the 
courtroom that I wanted him to file appeals regarding, among other things, the
dollar 
amount of product my corporation had allegedly ordered and not paid for. This
was 
regarding one of my corporation's divisions, located in the State of Texas. I
had been so 
incensed when Agent Loyd accused me of defrauding a Texas company out of
product 
that, against William J. Stevens' wishes, I insisted on taking the stand on my
own behalf 
to discuss it under oath with Hon. Harry Leinenweber. I discussed the matter
with him at 
great length, detailing the activities of a certain "over-zealous salesman" in
Texas who had 
shipped product to one of our corporate warehouses which was then returned to
his 
company. Not only was this transaction absolutely not an act of fraud or a
crime of any 
shape or kind, but it was only included in the sentencing stage of the hearing
for the 
express purposes of raising the dollar amount on the purported fraud case in
order to raise 
my parole guidelines to the next level. As was his custom, William J. Stevens
agreed to 
appeal the matter, but did not. Immediately after my sentencing, he went on
holidays.

17.     William J. Stevens ignored my request for no travel restrictions.
        William J. Stevens advised me that there be absolutely no travel restrictions
of any 
kind if I were to receive probation. When this stipulation failed to
materialise in writing, 
he agreed to ask Hon. Harry Leinenweber to stipulate it t my sentencing
hearing, assuring 
me that that was the right time and place to do it and that it would be quickly
and easily 
granted. I had seen many individuals, even drug-dealing truck drivers, ask for
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granted. I had seen many individuals, even drug-dealing truck drivers, ask for
and 
receive this stipulation without any problem, citing the interference with
their livelihood 
travels restrictions would bring. It was essential that I have no travel
restrictions, as my 
family, friends and business are scattered all over the world. William J.
Stevens was well 
aware of this. Unfortunately, like everything else, he promised to do it, but
did not. 
When I called him at his office directly after the sentencing hearing to
complain that he 
had not brought this issue up to the judge, even after I had continuously
reminded him 
while in the courtroom, he said "Oh! I forgot!" and promised to "run" back to
the 
courtroom "immediately" to advise the judge he wanted this stipulation. He did
not, and 
the many problems I had regarding travel afterwards were a direct result of
William J. 
Stevens' not doing yet another thing he promised to do. 

18.     William J. Stevens has repeatedly warned me that were I to return 
to my home in the United States, I would be placing my "life and freedom 
in the greatest possible jeopardy".
        Shortly after my arrival in Switzerland from the U.S. on or about 12. June
1991, 
William J. Stevens, informed me in a telephone conversation that the U.S.
Attorney's 
Office and F.B.I., with whom he is in obvious collaboration, had instructed him
to relay 
the message to me, that if I were ever to return to my homeland, the United
States, I 
would be placing my "life and freedom in the greatest possible jeopardy". This
threat, 
often repeated by Mr. Stevens, has caused my family and I to live in fear for
nearly five 
years, and has affected us in many negative ways, including financially. 

        This situation exploded when my elderly aunt, Dorothy P. Hilgadiack, who
raised 
me after my youthful mother's timely death, suffered a severe, near-fatal
stroke, causing 
total paralysis of the entire right side of her body and the almost total loss
of her speech 
abilities. With her lying in a hospital in Indianapolis on what could well have
become her 
deathbed, I contacted William J. Stevens, the person who is most responsible
for the 
pathetic position I am in, who had repeatedly warned that were I to return to
my American 
home, I would be placing my "life and freedom in the greatest possible
jeopardy". He 
continued to stand by that statement, while continuing to refuse to put it in
writing.  

19.     William J. Stevens attempted to extort yet more undue legal fees 
from me in return for obtaining my "safe passage" to the United States.
        Under the guise of "legal fees", William J. Stevens attempted to extort yet
more 
money from me in exchange for "making a deal with the government" to allow me
safe 
passage to my aunt's bedside in Indianapolis and back to my exile in
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 under such tragic circumstances, fully aware of my insolvency brought on by
the 
unlawful seizures of my assets by the F.B.I., which he had done nothing about,
William 
J. Stevens continued to attempt to extort money disguised as "legal fees" from
me. 

20.     William J. Stevens refused to respond to any correspondence from 
me or from another attorney.
        William J. Stevens chose to ignore my correspondence, as well as that of Swiss

attorney Riitta Diener-Alho's, who contacted him on my behalf in an attempt to
obtain a 
written answer regarding my legal status. William J. Stevens consistently
refused to put 
anything in writing that would serve as evidence against the unethical way he
represented 
me. He also chose to refrain from putting anything in writing which might
incriminate or 
embarrass his friends in the F.B.I. or U.S. Attorney's Office. 

21.     William J. Stevens refused to honour his many offers and 
agreements to attempt to procure the release of my assets which were 
unlawfully seized by the F.B.I. at the time of my arrest on 18. March 
1988.
        When, after nearly five years, the F.B.I. suddenly wrote to me in Switzerland,

advising me I could pick up a portion of my computer equipment they seized from
me, 
William J. Stevens agreed to pick up the equipment that day. He asked me to fax
him a 
copy of the F.B.I. letter and a Power-of-Attorney, (which he did not think
would be 
necessary), as a safeguard. After receiving the fax letter, he then resorted to
his delaying 
tactics and only picked up the equipment after I had spent a considerable
amount of 
money on international telephone bills and postage, and the deadline to pick
the 
equipment up was quickly approaching.

        In their letter to me, the F.B.I. failed to mention anything else they had
seized 
from me, such as the substantial amounts of money they seized. William J.
Stevens 
offered and agreed to demand the release of my remaining assets as soon as he
had picked 
up my computer equipment. However, after he had picked up my computer
equipment, 
he refused to do anything else for me, altogether.

22.     William J. Stevens attempted to extort yet more undue legal fees 
from me for picking up my computer equipment.
        After finally picking up my computer equipment from the F.B.I. office in 
Chicago, William J. Stevens, violently demanded more undue "legal fees" from
me. He 
went so far as to write me regarding this demand, although his written demand
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different than the ominous, threatening demand he deliriously shouted to me
over the 
telephone. 

23.     William J. Stevens made innumerable threats against me.
        I received innumerable threats from William J. Stevens, among them, the threat
to 
use his connections to violate my probation on fabricated charges. He
constantly told me 
that while I was on probation, I had no rights, and the Probation Department
was not 
required to prove anything they decided to accuse me of. He often shouted the
to me: "If 
it wasn't for me, your ass would be in jail!" He continuously stated that if he
were to 
withdraw as my court-appointed attorney, there would be nothing standing
between me 
and a "one-way ticket back to Marion." He constantly told me that the F.B.I.
and U.S. 
Attorney's Office were furious that I had received what they considered "a
light 
sentence".

24.     William J. Stevens denied me my Constitutional right to legal 
representation at a time when he was fully aware I needed it the most.
        Since the F.B.I. seized all of my assets, rendering me destitute, I was (and
still 
am) obviously entitled to competent representation by an attorney at the
expense of the 
government. Although what I received was not competent representation, William
J. 
Stevens eventually refused to do anything at all to remedy the situation he
placed me in, 
being in exile in a distant foreign country.  

25.     William J. Stevens refused to assist me in filing a 2255 motion 
requesting my conviction to be overturned on Constitutional grounds.
        While warning me not to attempt to file such a motion myself, he stated it
would 
take up "seventy-thousand dollars" of his time, but that he would only be paid
"about 
twenty-five hundred dollars for the large amount of work" from the Court. My 
unanswered correspondence to William J. Stevens indicates that I consistently
demanded 
that he file such a motion.

26.     William J. Stevens refused to return documents to my aunt, Dorothy 
P. Hilgadiack.
        My aunt, Dorothy P. Hilgadiack, loaned the original copy of my adoption papers

to William J. Stevens on a limited temporary basis years ago under the
condition that they 
be immediately returned via registered mail as soon as he was finished with
them. He 
refused to return the valuable documents despite many letters and telephone
calls from my 
aunt and I and refused to respond in any way to our letters and telephone calls
regarding 
this matter.
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27.     William J. Stevens conspired with the F.B.I., U.S. Attorney's 
Office and U.S. Marshall's office to defraud Hon. Harry Leinenweber at 
my sentencing hearing.
        William J. Stevens, along with the F.B.I., U.S. Attorney's Office and U.S. 
Marshall's Office falsely informed Hon. Harry Leinenweber on the day of my
originally 
scheduled sentencing hearing that it was impossible to transport me from the
Metropolitan 
Correctional Center to his courtroom, under the guise that the prison was
completely 
locked down due to a fire and that it was unlikely I would be able to appear in
court in the 
near future. In reality, I was in a prisoner holding tank located right down
the hall from 
the courtroom, and William J. Stevens,  F.B.I. Special Agent Richard Loyd,
Assistant 
U.S. Attorney Laurie Barsella and the U.S. Marshals had personally come to look
at me, 
to confirm for themselves that I was there, just before making the false
statement to the 
judge. Although William J. Stevens had, along with the others, also seen me, he
did not 
inform the judge that he was being defrauded, obviously because he was part of
the 
conspiracy. The purpose of the conspiracy was to postpone the sentencing
hearing, since 
I had numerous prominent character witnesses who had traveled from all over the
United 
States waiting in the hallway to testify in my behalf. Many of these witnesses
were unable 
to return for the next sentencing hearing and were thoroughly disgusted at the
fraud they 
had personally witnessed being perpetrated upon a federal judge. Among these
witnesses 
were Gordon and Joanne Stucker of Evergreen, Colorado, Mr. & Mrs. William Reefe
of 
Evergreen, Colorado, and Beth Davidson, of Lafayette, Louisiana. All of the
witnesses 
transportation fees, hotels and other expences, had been paid for by the United
States 
government. The government was, therefore, forced to pay these significant
witness 
costs for nothing. Even after some of the witnesses returned, William J.
Stevens did 
everything in his power to prevent them from informing Hon. Harry Leinenweber
of the 
fraud which had been perpetrated upon his Court. When Melissa Arajj Croswhite
took the 
witness stand, and attempted to inform the judge of the fraud that had taken
place, 
William J. Stevens forcefully steered her in another, totally different,
unrelated direction, 
and hurried her off the witness stand. She had told my family and I that her
main purpose 
in returning to the Chicago Court was to inform Hon. Harry Leinenweber of the
fraud 
that had been perpetrated on his Court, on the witnesses, and on me. William J.
Stevens 
again impeded justice by preventing the truth from coming out, at any cost.

28.)    William J. Stevens falsely informed me that he had just spoken to 
my attorney friend, Robert F. Bourne, just before he convinced me to 
plead guilty.
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29.)    William J. Stevens forced me to spend approximately $1,000 on 
long-distance telephone calls attempting to obtain necessary certified 
copies of court orders.
       This may be verified with Dr. G. Edward Bryan, Ph.D., who found himself 
being lied to by William J. Stevens, who contacted him regarding court orders
he said he 
did not have when, in fact, he did have them and this was verified by the court
clerk in 
Chicago. Eric Fullbright, the court clerk, also spoke to the judge and informed
him that 
William J. Stevens had caused me to run up approximately a one-thousand dollar 
telephone bill. The judge, whom I actually heard giving the clerk a message for
me, stated 
that there was no reason for me to have to spend a thousand dollars in
telephone calls just 
trying to get William J. Stevens to obtain and send me certified copies of
court orders he 
knew I needed in order to come to Switzerland. The judge was quite angry over
this and 
his additional message to me was that if I wanted another lawyer all I had to
do was write 
him a letter asking for one. When I informed William J. Stevens of this
conversation, he 
was infuriated and warned me of the consequences if I were to write such a
letter to the 
judge.

30.)    William J. Stevens unnecessarily advised my fiancee, Silvia 
Niklaus, to pay a substantial amount of money to rent an apartment for 
us.
        William J. Stevens seemed intent on draining my fiancee, Silvia Niklaus, of
her 
life's savings. One such example was after he had instructed her to come to the
United 
States immediately after she'd undergone major eye surgery, falsely claiming he
wanted 
her to appear in court on my motion to travel to Switzerland. After she had
arrived in the 
United States, and William J. Stevens had once again delayed the motion, he
instructed 
her to rent an apartment, because the motion was going to take longer than
expected, and 
it would be more economical in the long run than staying in expensive motel
rooms. 
Almost immediately after the apartment had been rented, costing an exorbitant
amount of 
money for security fees, deposits, etc., William J. Stevens finally filed the
motion and 
suddenly advised Ms. Niklaus to give notice that we were vacating the premises
and no 
longer needed the apartment. The amount of money wasted on the unnecessary
rental of 
the apartment, the unnecessary flight, and other unnecessary expenditures
completely 
depleted Ms. Niklaus' substantial life's savings, forcing her to sell personal
possessions 
and delay tax payments just to survive. William J. Stevens found this quite
funny.




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31.)    William J. Stevens caused my fiancee, Silvia Niklaus', serious eye 
operation to be an irreparable failure when he unnecessarily demanded 
that she rush to a Notary in Switzerland to have an affidavit notarised.
        Immediately after she got out of bed and had her mother drive her to a Notary,

William J. Stevens said it hadn't been necessary after all, and that there was
a section in 
the U.S. Code that permitted someone located in a foreign country to swear to a

document without visiting a Notary, but only by citing the appropriate section
of the U.S. 
Code.

32.)    William J. Stevens caused my fiancee, Silvia Niklaus, further 
serious eye damage by unnecessarily demanding that she immediately fly 
to the United States to appear in court when my long-delayed motion to 
travel to Switzerland was finally heard.
        When William J. Stevens demanded that Silvia Niklaus fly to the United States
to 
appear in court immediately after undergoing major eye surgery, claiming her
appearance 
was absolutely necessary. As it turned out, this was not true, and he knew it.
He never 
had any intentions of her appearing in court, and her flight was completely
unnecessary. 
Due to the stress and the movement, her eye operation was a failure. It was a
very serious 
eye operation which she will probably never be able to repeat in her life, even
to correct 
the failed surgery. William J. Stevens was fully-aware that her doctor had
ordered her to 
stay in bed, yet he firmly demanded that she travel to the United States. Not
only did the 
journey cause a very painful eye operation which she had paid for out-of-pocket
to fail, 
but it was quite an expensive journey, considering that she was forced to pay a
high price 
for plane fare without being able to provide any advance notice when purchasing
the 
ticket. These are the kind of dangerous, sadistic games William J. Stevens
likes to play 
with other people's lives. 

33.)    William J. Stevens made regular copious threats against me.
        William J. Stevens regularly made a variety of threats against me. He
constantly 
warned me against doing many things, for example, he warned me against
reporting him 
to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission for embezzling $1,600
my 
fiancee wired to his account. He warned me against reporting him to my judge
for 
purposely delaying sending me certified copies of court orders he knew I needed
after he 
discovered that the judge was angry at him for doing this and had told me
through his 
clerk that he would provide me with a new attorney if I simply wrote him a
letter asking 
him to do so. There are countless other examples. The penalties were just as
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the threats. Most of them dealt with his ability to use his connections to get
my probation 
violated on some small, fabricated technicality. He constantly reminded me of
his 
"connections", including his "Uncle John", U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul

Stevens and the power that he maintained due to these many impressive
connections. 
Through these methods, he managed to control me through terror to such an
extent that 
only recently have I summoned the courage to stand up to him. 

34.)    William J. Stevens refused to follow judicial orders
        At one point during my court appearances, I demanded that William J. Stevens 
advise the Hon Harry Leinenweber that I wanted my assets returned immediately.
Only 
when William J. Stevens saw that if he did not make this request, I was
personally going 
to make it, did he finally advise the judge accordingly. The judge's response
was to look 
directly at William J. Stevens and say: "You must file for a forfeiture
hearing, Mr. 
Stevens." William J. Stevens agreed in open court t do so. This was not the
only time that 
the judge asked William J. Stevens to file for a forfeiture hearing, and it was
not the only 
time William J. Stevens agreed to file for a forfeiture hearing, but he merely
utilised his 
typical delaying tactics and never filed for the forfeiture hearing. This
obviously has 
prejudiced any chances I have of having my assets returned. 

        At one point, William J. Stevens advised me that "if the government continues
to 
hold your assets without holding a forfeiture hearing, once two years passes,
they must 
automatically return all of your assets to you." When the two year period
finally passed, 
he seemed more eager than ever to go to court and get my assets returned, but
it was just 
another one of those type of cruel games he likes to play. To date, five years
after my 
assets were unlawfully seized, he has still never filed for a forfeiture
hearing or made any 
demands upon the government for the return of my assets. 

        At one point, William J. Stevens instructed me to personally draw up a "Motion

for Instructions" in which the judge would be asked to decide what would be
done with 
my assets. After I rushed to complete the work that I was not really qualified
to pursue, 
following William J. Stevens' explicit instructions, he then returned to his
delay mode, 
and never filed the motion. 

35.)    William J. Stevens allowed the F.B.I. and U.S. Attorney's Office 
to renege on their agreements, jeopardising my life and safety and further 
depriving me of my substantial assets
        After finally convincing me to submit to several interviews with his friends, 


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F.B.I. Special Agent Richard Loyd and Assistant U.S. Attorney Laurie Barsella,
in 
which I was requested to supply them with crucial information which would place
my life 
and safety in great jeopardy, William J. Stevens advised me that I would be
released from 
prison under the U.S. Government Witness Protection Plan with all of my assets
returned 
to me as well as "a financial reward" and "a witness fee". He told me I was
supposed to 
keep this a "secret" between us.

        After providing the invaluable information to the F.B.I. and Assistant U.S. 
Attorney, however, I was not released from prison under the U.S. Government
Witness 
Protection Plan, nor were all of my assets returned to me, nor did I receive "a
financial 
reward" or "a witness fee". Instead, I was treated with particular harshness,
and sent to 
the worst possible prison facility, Marion, to serve the maximum possible time
on my 
sentence in the main prison population, where my life and safety were in
constant danger 
after having given such invaluable information to the F.B.I. and Assistant U.S.
Attorney. 

        Immediately following my release, the F.B.I. and U.S. Attorney's Office, in 
direct collaboration with the U.S. Probation Department, began working on
violating my 
probation with a technicality that would send me right back to prison. As with
everything 
else, William J. Stevens refused to assist me in any way. 

35.)    William J. Stevens attempted to pressure me into committing  
crimes in order to raise money to pay him cash fees "off the    record"
        As soon as I was released from prison, (although still not really "free"),
William 
J. Stevens tried to pressure me into committing a variety of white collar
crimes in order to 
raise money to pay him cash fees "off the record". Without the large amounts of
cash he 
demanded, he refused to complete the work which still had to be done on my
case, work 
which has never been completed to this day, since I was unable and unwilling to
raise the 
"off the record" cash fees he demanded and I refused to commit any crimes

        William J. Stevens went so far as to personally suggest precisely what crimes
I 
should commit, offering to direct me in their commission, claiming he would
"hold your 
hand all the way as I walk you through."






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36.)    William J. Stevens refused to inform the Court that my prosecution 
was politically-motivated selective prosecution
        From the very beginning, William J. Stevens refused to inform the Court that
my 
prosecution was politically-motivated selective prosecution. 

        At my hearing before the Hon. George Marovich, where I was tricked and 
pressured into entering a plea, the judge was openly concerned, indeed,
infuriated that 
although several other individuals were involved in my case, I was the only
individual 
being selectively prosecuted. He demanded that Assistant U.S. Attorney Laurie
Barsella 
answer where all of the other people involved in the case were, and "why they
aren't here 
today" even though their names clearly appeared in the indictment against me. 

        At my sentencing hearing, the Hon. Harry Leinenweber spoke to me personally, 
as I sat, under oath, on the stand, and made open references to my
"confederates", openly 
utilising such words as "conspiracy." 

        As stated earlier, there was never a single word uttered in Court about my 
affiliation with Sen. Hart, the Democratic Party, or anything else that would make it 
appear on the court record that my arrest and prosecution was
politically-motivated 
selective prosecution. 

37.)    William J. Stevens forced me to return my two minor daughters to a 
bad home where he knew they would be sexually molested or worse.
        During their summer visit to my home in Del Mar, California, I discovered that

my two minor daughters (ages 2 and 3) were living in a bad home with their
mother, my 
ex-wife, in the presence of one or more individuals who had sexually molested
them, or 
attempted to sexually molest them. Several prominent family law attorneys
advised me to 
take immediate legal action in the San Diego Superior Court to obtain an
emergency 
custody order in order to legally avoid returning the children to a dangerous
home. 

        When my U.S. probation officer, Michael Pisor, ordered me to return my small 
daughters to what he, himself, admitted to be a highly dangerous environment,
rather 
than defend my right to protect my children, William J. Stevens conspired with
Mr. Pisor 
in threatening me to return the two little girls. I eventually gave into the
pressure, and 
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38.)    William J. Stevens shares equal responsibility with U.S. Probation 
Officer Michael Pisor for the sexual molestation of my 5-year-old 
daughter.
        After giving in to the degenerate threats of William J. Stevens and Michael
Pisor, 
and returning my two daughters to their mother's bad home, my elder daughter,
Erin, 
(then aged 5 years) suffered a heinous sexual molestation at the hands of one
of their 
mother's  friends she entrusted them to named "Bill".

39.)    William J. Stevens improperly did not report the sexual molestation 
of my daughter to the proper authorities.
        I did not learn of the crime perpetrated against my small daughter until the
day 
before I was to depart California for Switzerland. William J. Stevens agreed to
report the 
crime to the proper authorities and see to it that "Bill" was prosecuted to the
full extent of 
the law. After I arrived in exile in Switzerland, William J. Stevens failed to
report the 
crime or take any action whatsoever in the interests of justice. His silence
and lack of 
action, particularly in view of his forcing me to return the children to a bad
home, made 
him an active participant in the vile crime perpetrated against my daughter.

40.)    William J. Stevens conspired with the F.B.I., U.S. Attorney's 
Office and U.S. Probation Department to deprive me of my right to Due 
Process of Law in the Floyd County Superior Court.
        After I discovered that my wife had obtained an invalid divorce decree by
virtue of 
perjury and fraud, with the apparent encouragement, assistance and support of
the 
F.B.I., U.S. Attorney's Office and U.S. Probation Department, William J.
Stevens 
conspired with these agencies to wrongfully prevent me from filing a Petition
to Set Aside 
Invalid Divorce Decree and seeking proper paternal custody rights to my two
minor 
children. This conspiracy, a gross and blatant of my and my children's
Constitutional and 
Human rights, was lethal to my relationship with my children, and resulted in
at least one 
of my children (aged 5 years) being sexually molested and scarred for life. It
also resulted 
in both of my children being kidnapped and removed across state lines, where I
have no 
way of knowing if they are dead or alive in the "underground" life my ex-wife
has cruelly 
subjected them to. I hold William J. Stevens , the F.B.I., the U.S. Attorney's
Office, 
U.S. Probation Department, and others as yet unnamed wholly responsible for
this 
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41.)    William J. Stevens improperly did not report numerous attempts by 
personnel of the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center (nicknamed 
"The Warehouse of Death") to forcibly subject me to forced AIDS vaccine 
experiments to the proper authorities.
        I contacted William J. Stevens by telephone numerous times, as did certain of
my 
fellow inmates, Dr. Glenn Brooke, Peter Syer, Michael L. Cross, my wife, and
other 
members of my family, to notify him that I had been called down to the
so-called 
"medical" department of the Chicago Metropolitan Correctional Center, where
brute force 
was employed by prison "medical" staff in an attempt to forcibly subject me to
AIDS 
vaccine experiments. Although he did, on occasion, assist in halting said
experiments as 
they were about to take place, he refused to notify the Court or any other
proper 
authorities, or to take any necessary legal action in order to prevent said
personnel from 
attempting to conduct such experiments again. These forced experiments were 
reminiscent of those conducted by the Nazi doctor, Dr. Josef Mengele, in 1940's
German 
concentration camps. That William J. Stevens did nothing to properly protect me
from 
being subjected to future attempts to use me as an unwilling human guinea pig
is a 
testament to his lack of respect for human life.


The Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of
Illinois 
have refused to properly investigate or litigate any of the very serious
violations contained 
herein, choosing instead, to conspire with William J. Stevens in order to
protect one of 
their own.

        It has required an immense, heterogeneous and well organised conspiracy with 
confederates in the highest echelons of the U.S. justice system in order to
deprive me, a 
native-born United States citizen, of virtually all of my most treasured rights
whilst 
scheming to protect those who have categorically violated those rights at any
cost. By not 
protecting me against the praetorian violators o my rights, William J. Stevens
is, in 
effect, not only guilty of knowingly and willfully conspiring with my
adversaries against 
me, his client; he is guilty of knowingly and willfully conspiring with these
misguided, 
power-crazed individuals against his own people, the people of the United
States of 
America. Thomas Jefferson must be turning over in his grave.
                                                
                                                
                                                Respectfully submitted,



                                                                                        
                                                MICHAEL WILLIAMS, in Pro Se
                                                Postfach 20
                                                CH-3112 Allmendingen bei Bern
                                                Switzerland 

















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