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Video Transcript Summary Former Cook County Judge Patricia Martin, who served 24 years on the bench including as presiding judge of the juvenile court's child protection division and was appointed to a national commission by President Obama, was entrusted with managing the finances of Oscar Lawton Wilkerson (also referred to as Lawton Wilkerson or Oscar Wilkerson Jr.), a Tuskegee Airman, WWII veteran, and longtime family friend (related through marriage as a niece of his former wife). This occurred after Wilkerson, then in his mid-90s, moved into a Southside/Orland Park retirement/nursing home around late 2020. Court records and reports indicate Martin...

A former Cook County judge who stole large sums of money from an elderly friend who served as a Tuskegee Airman received a probationary sentence on Friday. Patricia Martin, 66, received four years of probation after pleading guilty to theft of $100,000 to $500,000, according to court records. The judge also ordered her to pay $122,763.73 in restitution and comply with standard probation conditions that include random drug testing. Martin once served as presiding judge of the Child Protection Division and retired in 2020. Prosecutors initially accused her of stealing nearly $250,000 from then-95-year-old Oscar Wilkerson, a longtime friend whose...

It seems that Senator Obama's Old party was called the New Party. The party was a Marxist Political coalition. This was not a guilt by association thing. Senator Obama sought out their nomination. He was successful in obtaining that endorsement, and he used a number of New Party volunteers as campaign workers. Read more on the Marxist endorsement that Barack Obama sought out: Co-founded in 1992 by Daniel Cantor (a former staffer for Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign) and Joel Rogers (a sociology and law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), the New Party was a Marxist political coalition whose...