Our law firm knows the families of Meyer Marks and Howard Marks personally and by representing Meyer, Howard, Malhee, Jeremy and Allen Marks, in civil court, 1999-2016. We were shown a family timeline, 2020 family emails, and released us from attorney-client privilege.
Regarding Jeremy Marks, our law office has unique “hands-on” legal knowledge:
In 2003 in Randhurst leasehold litigation.
In guardianship court for Allen Marks' benefit, 2007-16;
In 2011 when Lance was recipient of emails between Adult Protective Services (APS), Howard and Jeremy.
In 2016, in guardianship court when Judge Carolyn Quinn discovered, through in-camera review, that Jeremy was committing perjury (lying) in giving false testimony against Howard Marks. This wasn’t about Judge Quinn “believing” Howard over Jeremy. Judge Quinn reviewed irrefutable APS evidence and banking records to determine that Jeremy Marks' testimony was false.
Our law office had three things requested of us:
1st: To analyze/authenticate the criminal & civil public record felony and child abuse judgments against Jeremy Lee Marks by the US and Illinois State Courts and Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).
2nd: Describe the 2016 egregious court scene created by Jeremy Marks in guardianship court.
3rd: Relate some Lake County Court Documents, a myspace “message” (#24) from Jennifer Marks, and Daniel Marks’ timely 1999 essay, “My Uncle Jeremy” (#1).
After due diligence, we believe all attached public record criminal and civil judgments and findings by US and State Courts and DCFS are authentic. The Daily Herald articles on Jeremy's 1983 bomb-sales felony can be confirmed at the www.dailyherald.com archive. (#3A, #3B, #4A, #4B, #5). All Documents are self-explanatory. We asked Howard Marks to proof-read this email’s timeline.
All attached public record Documents unmistakably depict Jeremy Marks as a US Criminal Court convicted felon in 1983 (#3-#5), an Illinois Courts multi-time adjudged child/wife abuser in 1995-1999 (#6-#14), and a DCFS/ Court found/ adjudged Perjurer/liar (#9), 1995, 2016. Every Public Record Conviction and Judgment, together with the Daily Herald newspaper articles, names Jeremy Marks as sole offender. No appeals have ever been filed to challenge Jeremy's felony conviction or abuse adjudications.
Sadly, all of Jeremy’s egregious 1995-99 DCFS & Illinois court judgments against him (#6-#13) are for multi-time abuse of his immediate family: wife, stepchildren, child, with collateral abuse to other relatives and friends. The DCFS evidence against Jeremy is overwhelming: interviews, in a neutral setting, by DCFS of Jeremy’s age 9 stepchild victim and age 8 brother and shifting testimony from Jeremy.
Incredibly, Jeremy, when caught, in an attempt at coverup, then made multiple bogus DCFS hotline “9/1/1” type calls with provably false allegations (#9, page 3), vigorously attempting to shift blame from himself to an innocent man after DCFS wrote their reports condemning Jeremy’s abuse of his stepchildren (#6 - #13).
More incredibly, 13 years earlier with his felony bomb sales related activities in 1982-83, Jeremy literally “jumped over the moon”, totally eclipsing the malice he had perpetrated on his immediate family in 1995-99, (#3-#5). A fair question to ask: “What kind of ‘human’ is unconcerned that the bombs he sells might be used to kill or seriously injure someone”? A psychiatry associate’s opinion is that Jeremy is a “deep-rooted” sociopath/psychopath. She suggests that the type of person depicted by Jeremy’s public record of felony and abuse (and #24) has no respect for people, truth or even life, and she suggests that people should be careful not to eat, drink, or sleep in his presence.
Sadly, in February 2022, we learned that Jeremy's son, Christopher, a felon since 2018 like Jeremy, was arrested on 11/30/2021, now in prison on 27+ felony charges: armed violence, firearm use/possession, drugs, child pornography, visible on McHenry County docket https://caseinfo.co.mchenry.il.us/pca ). Chris has two other recent arrests, resembling Jeremy’s public record of abuse, one for "battery" to his immediate family (#16).
Other members of Jeremy’s family were/are also victimized by Jeremy: His father Meyer, and his brothers, Howard, and Allen. Until 2007, my law office personally knows that Howard and his dad, Meyer, never knew Jeremy was a convicted felon or was a court and DCFS adjudged child abuser (reference, see paragraph 7 below).
Looking at the details in Paragraphs 5 to 9 below, it is very clear that Jeremy deceived his brother, Howard, and his family, by keeping his egregious misconduct secret or plausibly "explained" so as to take advantage of them, a con man’s misconduct, no different than what Jeremy did to his wife, children, stepchildren and others he collaterally damaged.
Egregious Conduct of Jeremy Marks Not Covered Above, including Guardianship Court conduct.
1. 2007. Our law firm created and worked on Allen's guardianship in Cook County, IL. We asked Jeremy to be Representative Payee to handle Allen's disability money. Jeremy agreed. Matter-of-factly, Jeremy was asked: Is there anything negative on your legal record that would prevent you from being Rep Payee? He indicated he was totally "clean". When Social Security approved, then shortly later, rejected Jeremy as Rep Payee, Jeremy acted astonished. Jeremy flat lied to us, as he did have a felony and abuser history which Social Security found. As Jeremy was a very convincing liar, we still believed him. Howard became Rep Payee as his record is spotless.
2. 1972. Per Howard, one early clue Jeremy's parents had of Jeremy's nature was detailed in attachment #2, a lawsuit against Jeremy Marks, served at the family house in Wilmette. Jeremy convincingly told his parents that he was innocent. Both counts of the complaint said, "Malice is the gist of this action."
3. 1983. Felony Details. Jeremy kept top secret from his parents and the Howard Marks family that US Criminal Court had convicted him (#3A, #3B, #4A, #4B, #5) of felony, with charges described in www.dailyherald.com articles. In summary, 1982, Jeremy was indicted by a grand jury and arrested for activities of making, possessing, and selling electrically detonated pipe bombs - convicted as a felon one year later in a plea bargain admission of guilt.
4. 1995-96. Abuse, perjury covered page one above. 2016 perjury covered in paragraphs 10-13 below.
5. 1998. Cook County Court, Case 98D230281, named Jeremy Marks in an “Order of Protection” (#14) for family abuse and threats of explosives use, permanently ejecting Jeremy from the marital home, largely ending the marriage. Howard said that, mid-1998 through 2002, Jeremy moved back to his parents and kept secret it from his parents and Howard's family, of the Orders of Protection against him, adjudging him guilty of egregious misconduct towards his family. Worse, Jeremy scapegoated his wife and others as reasons he was not living with his wife and lost possession of his son, Chris.
6. 1998. Lake County Court records show Howard as court-appointed supervisor of Jeremy's visits with son Chris soon after Jeremy was ejected from the marital home by Cook County (#14). We personally know, from Allen’s guardianship, that in 2007, Howard had no knowledge of Jeremy's misconduct history (paragraph 1 above). Hence, in 1998, Howard could not have known of Jeremy's child abuse history or felony judgments against him.
7. 11/1999. Daniel Marks' timely essay (#1A), "My Uncle Jeremy", was written during the time Howard was Jeremy's Court Supervisor for 1+ years. Daniel, 13 years old, wrote that, inter alia, Jeremy visited with his son every Sunday, describing Jeremy in loving ways, as "good-hearted, generous, joking, kind, hard-working", worthy of love, etc. Daniel describes Jeremy's wife in insulting ways, stating Jeremy hated his wife. And Daniel further describes Howard as, "Used to be very kind."
8. 11/1999. It’s clear that Daniel didn't know that Jeremy was, weeks or months earlier, multiple times found guilty of abusing 3 children and his wife, and, by court order, had been "kicked out" of the marital home, or that Jeremy was a convicted felon. However, Daniel does say that he understood Jeremy "used to take drugs" (Daniel’s page 4, handwritten). It’s unimaginable that Daniel would write such a flattering essay if he knew that Jeremy was a felon and recent court adjudged child abuser.
9. Re 1999. Howard asked three questions, keeping in mind that Daniel said his father "Used to be very kind": 1st, How much kinder could Howard have been than to donate every Sunday to Jeremy for visits with his son for 1+ years? 2nd, If Howard knew Jeremy was a felon and a child abuser, not his wife, would Howard have agreed to be Jeremy's visitation supervisor? And 3rd, Would Howard knowingly have allowed his sons and Chris to bond with Jeremy, a felon abuser with (then) recent child abuse history? The answers are obvious to a person with empathy and warm human emotions. And, given that Chris is now in deep trouble, Howard believes if he had said, “No” to supervising Chris’ visitation, maybe Chris wouldn’t be in jail right now or be a felon, wife, and child abuser.
JEREMY MARKS’ GUARDIANSHIP COURT “EVENT”.
10. 2016a. In Judge Carolyn Quinn’s court and to the G.A.L., Jeremy very convincingly alleged that Howard had abused Allen and his father Meyer, in 2011 and 2015-16. Jeremy further alleged that Howard was stealing Allen’s disability income. Jeremy further alleged that he reported all abuses to Adult Protective Services (APS). Jeremy also alleged to the court and G.A.L. that APS had determined that Howard was guilty, and guilty in 2011 of “elder abuse” against his father Meyer.
11. 2016b. So totally convincing was Jeremy to Judge Quinn and G.A.L. that Judge Quinn issued a court order for in-camera review of all relevant APS records for Howard, Allen and Meyer, including 2011 APS findings. Judge Quinn ordered Howard to produce financial records regarding Allen. APS and Howard produced all documents and records, including APS’ 2011 Meyer Marks/Howard findings.
12. 2016c. At the in-camera hearings, financial/bank documents and APS in-camera review showed ALL of Jeremy's allegations against Howard as totally false and that APS deemed Jeremy's 2011 complaint as unfounded (not guilty). Per the online docket, on 09/20/2016, Howard was ordered to take a “reimbursement” of $4,000.00 and appointed Guardian of Allen's special needs payback trust. Jeremy has continually lied about both the 2011 APS findings and the 2016 Guardianship Court findings, falsely and deceptively telling others that Howard was found guilty when it was the polar opposite.
13. 2016d. Mr. Joseph Kerouac, the caseworker and arbitrator for APS, sent Howard an email, essentially confirming that, in 2011, Jeremy was ordered to NOT initiate contact with his father, Meyer, until he entered family or personal therapy. Mr. Kerouac's email helps confirm paragraph 12.
ORIGIN OF THE “OF PUBLIC RECORD” DCFS AND COURT DOCUMENTS ATTACHED:
When moving in fall 2020, Howard Marks discovered a box that Jeremy had given to him for storage at his Mount Prospect IL home in about mid 2002, likely dating from Jeremy’s eviction from a Waukegan, Illinois rental (eviction visible, Lake County website, Case #02LM00000281). This box contained the original attachments to this email, #5-#15, excluding newspaper articles. Jeremy certainly knew of these documents, as he was the named “offender”.
JEREMY MARKS’ VICTIMS:
Sadly, Jeremy's most deeply wounded victims were/are parents, his brothers, wife and children, especially daughter, Jennifer, who has shunned Jeremy since age 13, and Christopher, who, I just found out, is in prison on 27 felony counts, including armed violence. Chris, like Jeremy, is a felon since 2018.
From age 13, Chris lived with Jeremy (JM CM #00). Comparing Jeremy’s and Christopher’s public records, they are similar to how Jennifer’s (#24) message to Chris described Jeremy’s physical abuse to her and recreational drug misbehavior and sales.
A LAWYER'S SUGGESTIONS TO JEREMY MARKS' VICTIMS:
With this email's being sent, I’ve tried to fulfill Howard Marks' request to 1) Review and comment on the Public Record convictions, judgments, and findings against Jeremy Marks, and 2) relate our knowledge of the drama Jeremy created in Allen's Guardianship Court in 2016. I recommend the following to readers:
1. If you feel it necessary, hire an attorney to review the attachments for understanding.
2. Call Jeremy's daughter, Jennifer, to find out what happened between her and Jeremy. To shun a father for 30+ years, she must have good reasons. Messages between Jennifer and Chris describe Jeremy and drugs and “doing drug transactions" in her presence and being introduced to drugs (attachment #24, annotated by Jeremy: #24A). As David was addressee in (#24A), David is aware of the messages from Jennifer to Chris, but not aware Jeremy’s annotations were untrue. I asked Howard how he knew about this. Howard said that Phil, Jeremy's housemate (not "Dennis"), had called him and Howard knew Phil’s "girlfriend", Judy. Prior to 2009, Howard believed Jeremy, not Phil or Judy.
3. Call stepchildren's parents, Howard suggests: Steve Sutton Sr, Pamela Vintika Frikart - victimized in paragraphs 4 through 8. Corollary victims that might give information are Pamela's present husband, Pamela's mother, and Scott Jacobsen. Avoid unknown witnesses who might be or were drug addicts.
4. Apparently, Jeremy "befriends" his former victims - while falsely "demonizing opponents", as Jeremy successfully did to Daniel in 1999 about Jeremy’s “hateful” wife, described in Daniel's essay (#1A); thus, reports from Jeremy’s preteen/teen victims may be unreliable.
5. Check the Daily Herald newspaper archives for the newspaper articles describing Jeremy’s felony.
6. Check websites for Lake County and Cook County Illinois court. If necessary, go to Chicago or Waukegan records department if cases are too old to get online, but should be available to order.
7. Jeremy’s felony conviction may be obtainable, without a court order, through the Federal Court computer records service, PACER. Many attorneys maintain PACER accounts. The ATF or the US Court (Northern District of IL) at Dirksen Building in Chicago can also speak to these issues. I and my office can’t help any more than this letter. The public record speaks for itself and is irrefutable evidence. Hire an attorney if you need further discovery. Howard has original Documents.
