James G Wilson and Jessica M Wilson
1419 Esic Dr., Apt 8
Edwardsville, IL 62025-3900
(618) 917-9545
Re: Unresolved matters regarding Jim Klenke, Jeff Wilson and Andrew Ginster
To: Narbeth Emmanuel, December 1, 2011
Dr. Emmanuel,
It has now been over four months since your July 20, 2011 letter promising that "this matter will be carefully reviewed and the appropriate actions taken" regarding my concerns about Jeffrey A Wilson's and Andrew J Ginster's substance abuse issues and other highly unethical behaviors, as well as Jim Klenke's childish, deceitful and wildly unethical behavior in his responses to my genuine concerns. To date, there has not been one shred of evidence to suggest that you have kept your word on any of this. There has been no apology (let alone retractions) forthcoming from Klenke, and there has been no investigation into Jeffrey's easily proven acts of plagiarism. And, given recent posts on Facebook and other social media, it is obvious that there has been no action taken to intervene in these boys' ongoing substance abuse problems on (and off) campus.
First and foremost, my greatest concern still lies with Klenke's attempts to interfere with my rights to protection from the SIUE police department. I even made notable mention of that concern in my July 14th letter that you say you reviewed. While Klenke did not have the courage to put his authoritative directives denying my use of that institution into the writing of his deceitful1 July 7th, 2011 letter, he did state his intent to interfere and obstruct my rights during the July 13th meeting. In fact, I have a fully credible witness to attest to these facts that Klenke did make such statements in front of upstanding SIUE student, Jessica M Wilson, at the time. I now demand that Jim Klenke either issue me an official letter stating his claims of (probably quite illegal) interference, or he needs to issue an official letter of retraction and apology for his attempts to obstruct my right to such protections using the authority of his office.
1I correctly label Jim Klenke's July 7, 2011 letter as deceitful for two reasons. In the first sentence, Klenke states that he is in receipt of my June 30, 2011 letter. If so, then he is also in full receipt of all accompanying materials- including the DVD, notes describing the boys' attempts to lie about the videos in the DVD, printed out evidence of the fraudulent Twitter account, and the printed email showing Andrew's growing mental problems while under the influence illicit drugs. Yet, after Klenke admits that the boys engaged in the cyberfraud, harassment and libel, he makes the deceitful conclusion that, "I believe this will address your concerns" without any mention of the rest of the matter. Since he admitted that he was aware of my fully provable charges of plagiarism against Jeffrey, the charges that the boys coerced Katie Jerbi to provide false information to the Housing Office in the hopes of obstructing the rights of Jessica M Wilson to her Housing contract, and Jeffrey's bragging about his illegal drinking habits, his statement of addressing my concerns in that letter is utterly deceitful. No honest person can say they received my letter of June 30th and state that my concern was solely with the fraudulent Twitter account.
The fact that you have, thus far, ignored (or otherwise refused to act on) this grievous situation is troubling to say the least. In my experience, any time an official wants to perform a proper and honest investigation into such serious matters as these, they openly interview the accusers first, then interview the accused, and lastly ask the accusers for follow-up information before coming to any objective and reasonable conclusions. To date, not you, Klenke or that incompetent2 police officer have done anything of the sort. You each have simply chosen to base your egregious conclusions solely on the provable lies of these boys while conveniently ignoring all of the incontrovertible facts in these cases. Why? It serves no purpose to protect these substance abusers and teach them that unethical behavior only earns them favor with your office.
2I say "incompetent" because that officer failed to follow proper procedures in this matter. He admitted to me that he had not reviewed my evidence before interviewing the boys. So, they were allowed to manipulate and easily deceive him. Had that officer spoken with me first, he would have had the tools and observations necessary to realize that these boys were playing him for a dupe. I could have warned him about every lie they were about to tell him. And, I could have guided him on how to find the drugs and paraphernalia that they had hidden in the roommate's (Kendrick Tidwell) room before going to the police station to speak with that officer. Even after the officer had realized he'd been duped by the boys, he still chose to be belligerent and disrespectful with me instead. That is sheer and utter incompetence in my book.
Speaking of these boys' other unethical behaviors, I am quite interested to know on what grounds it is that these boys were not punished at all for violating the terms of the SIUE computer ITS policies (specifically, the section on Impermissible Use) on campus:
Responsible Use Policy at SIUe
They engaged in harassment, cyberfraud and other libelous acts using the school's networks. Klenke freely admits in his July 7th letter that the boys committed these acts by creating a phony Twitter account in my name and using that account to bully, harass and smear me in public. Yet, Klenke saw no reason to punish these shameful and illegal activities at all. Instead, Klenke tried to cowardly engage in some bullying tactics of his own against me during that July 13th meeting. Do you condone Klenke acting as a bully on behalf of this university and these boys despite the fact that part of his job is supposedly to prevent bullying on this campus? If so, why do you condone it? You and Jim Klenke both have official statements on the SIUE websites regarding civility and proper student conduct on campus. Yet, Jim Klenke failed that test when it was his turn, and you have failed to act to correct that situation. Again, I have to ask, why?
I also have to wonder if the video evidence, letters and other submissions still remain on file in Jim Klenke's office. If not, then he has further obstructed this investigation. These videos and other submissions are genuine proof that these boys engage in unethical behavior on this campus. If you were to do a proper investigation, I could provide you with a myriad of evidence that further proves these boys have openly and bald-faced lied to that police officer, to Jim Klenke and to any other official/counselor who asked them about these charges. I already know what the lies are and how to shine the light of truth on them. So, Klenke's disingenuous attempts to invoke the Privacy Act to protect these boys need not apply. I could not care less what they told Klenke. I already know how they lied to him and that police officer. If given the chance, I shall provide substantial details that fill in the evidence that has already been presented.
I have one last point about Klenke's gross misconduct in this matter to date before I move on to discussing the rest of these boys' continuing lack of ethics on and off this campus. I also demand an explanation from Klenke as to why he chose to collude with Jeffrey by sending his deceitful letter of July 7, 2011 to an incorrect address that was supplied by Jeffrey. I provided a clear and proper address for which that letter was to be sent at the top of my June 30th, 2011 letter to Klenke. Yet, you can clearly see on the July 7th letterhead that Klenke chose to collude with Jeffrey instead of abiding by what was written. Again, the correct address for Klenke's response was provided clearly at the top of my June 30th, 2011 letter to his office.
Klenke is actively working to pervert and cover up this matter, and his administrative misconduct needs to be fully and honestly addressed. If you do not wish to do this, I shall be compelled to raise these matters with your superiors and/or the Board of Trustees for SIU. Hopefully, they will look upon these matters with the seriousness they deserve and take real (and honest) action to help these boys and stop Klenke from further acts of obstructions of justice, as well. And, you can tell Jim Klenke from me that he was sadly mistaken when he cowardly bellowed, "That's the end of it!" at my back as I was already walking out of his office. This is nowhere near the end of this. I will continue to pursue it until it is properly and honestly resolved. I will not allow any type of Penn State-style of cover-up at SIUE to go unchallenged.
I am also aware that Jeffrey's grandmother, Edna Wilson, has provide some character witness information to that police officer, and probably to Klenke, as well. Did Jeffrey's grandmother also reveal to that officer and Klenke that she and his grandfather, Max Wilson, found marijuana and paraphernalia in Jeffrey's room and confronted him on it back in December of 2008? Did they inform the university of Jeffrey's physical abuse of them upon being confronted? Jessica M Wilson is a first-hand, direct witness to both events and can elaborate on them when asked to do so. I know Max and Edna all too well, and my guess is that they have now denied that any of that took place. I also possess MySpace.com conversations with Jeffrey that prove such events did take place.
I know that Jeffrey's grandparents are in firm denial that he does drugs despite them catching him at it in December of 2008 and being confronted with the evidence proving that he has not stopped doing it since then. They have a long and storied history of irrational and delusional behavior when it comes to dealing with such things. Jeffrey's father (their son) is serving a thirteen year prison sentence for drug-related offenses largely because Max and Edna willfully ignored and made excuses for his thirty years of drug abuse and other unethical behaviors that led up to his stiff sentence. To this day, they still defend him as if he was unjustly persecuted by the police rather than a guilty offender. I can show you proof that Jeffrey's grandmother told the police on the day of the drug raid and arrests, "My son is too lazy to sell drugs!" Again, it is easily proven that she said that. During the past year, they would sit at McDonald's and talk about Jeffrey's father being innocent because he was not hurting anyone by selling them crack cocaine. And, since those people were coming to his house to buy it, it was not his fault that they were using it. The idea was that Jeffrey's father was not standing on a street corner forcing them to use it, so he was not doing anything wrong. That is precisely the kind of irrational and delusional logic they are using with Jeffrey's behavior now.
Jeffrey's grandparents have done much to shape Jeffrey's unethical behavior to date. When Jeffrey was young (five years old, perhaps?), he badly bit a bus driver (or aid) because he wanted off the bus and s/he would not let him. Jeffrey was subsequently kicked off the bus for the rest of that year. Instead of realizing that Jeffrey had behaved poorly, his grandmother still blames the driver and the school district officials alone for the incident. In her eyes, Jeffrey did nothing wrong. Jeffrey later took his grandparents' racist attitudes to school and was suspended from middle school for telling a black girl that, since he was white and she was black, he had dominion over her. His grandparents did nothing to help him get reinstated because they again believed he had done nothing wrong. So, it was left up to his crack-addicted mother to go and plead his case for him with school officials. This incident is also easily proven with evidence in my possession.
Even as they sat at McDonald's here in Edwardsville defending their son's drug issues week after week, Max and Edna would make racist comments about the staff and other patrons there. Jessica and I are first-hand witnesses to that, as well. They blame President Kennedy for encouraging the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s. Jeffrey's fear (and loathing) of blacks was so intense that he refused to take assigned housing at Cougar Village in the summer of 2010 and lived with me instead. The only reason (as he himself stated) that he consented to live with a black student at CV in the Spring of 2011 was because that kid was a drug dealer and, besides, he had Andrew there with him. Since there were two white kids and one black one, the black kid would have to do whatever they said. It's appalling to know that Jeffrey and his grandparents think that way, but I have heard that garbage from his grandparents all of my life too. The big difference is that I knew better than to think that way. Jeffrey obviously never learned that important lesson.
As one last statement about the credibility of Jeffrey's grandparents, I would like to add evidence to the fact that, after this situation with Jeffrey's current drug abuse problems spiraled out of control, Jeffrey's grandmother openly attempted to steal Jessica's financial aid money from a joint bank account held between Jessica and her. We have the email exchanges and bank statements proving that the attempted theft was admitted to and real. It was only after another family member intervened that Jeffrey's (and Jessica's) grandmother relinquished the money. The reason she took the money out of the account in the first place was because she engages in a great deal of unethical behavior herself. She has no qualms about hiding and shuffling money between various accounts in order to satisfy certain rules for Jeffrey's Social Security income (SSI) and public aid benefits. This is so that, even though he possesses a great deal more money than is allowed by law without penalty, she makes sure that the only bank account the government knows about stays well under the maximum amount allowed. She also does this with Jeffrey's financial aid applications each year. And, she tried to do it with Jessica's, as well. When we told her to put that money back, she only put half of it back and said she was keeping the rest for herself. Again, only the intervention of another family member resolved that situation before we had to take that matter to the police. The major point here is that Jeffrey has learned a great deal about unethical behavior from his grandmother. She even coached him on how to fake his eye exams so that he would falsely qualify for SSI. Yes, he has real visual impairment, but it does not in any measure approach the threshold for the standards of being deemed "legally blind" as set forth in the Social Security regulations. In fact, aside from Jeffrey's glasses, he uses NO visual aids at all. He can read the chalkboard and overheads from his seat without visual aids, and he does not need any extra visual devices to read his computer screens or textbooks. He is NOT legally blind at all. Again, this is just another fact about Jeffrey's (and his grandmother's) long history of unethical behavior as a way of life. And, Jeffrey knows that he can count on his grandmother to always be there to lie for and protect him when he engages in any level of wrong-doing.
Just to reiterate for the record, this all started because Andrew Ginster's abuse of illicit drugs was causing his already established mental issues to deteriorate further. I was alarmed at how Andrew reacted to the drugs he and Jeffrey were consuming. He would run and hide in the bathroom for long periods of time. Then, he would ramble incoherently. Then, he would describe strange hallucinations. One of those descriptions was attached to the June 30th letter to Klenke. These are all symptoms of someone who has already been suffering from paranoid delusional schizophrenia. Then, without ANY notice or talk at all in preceding months, Andrew suddenly (and without fact) accused me of making passes at his girlfriend on my Facebook page on February 7, 2011. Then, he told me privately that he "blew up" at me because he was having "family problems" and the tension was overwhelming him. I still have that letter if it needs to be presented as evidence. Andrew's increasing paranoia and erratic behavior, along with the boys' continued bragging of their increased use of drugs and alcohol in the unmonitored environment of Cougar Village, made it clear to me that it was time for some intervention before it became too late. So as not to embarrass him too much, I gave Andrew the option of seeking out counseling privately on his own or I was going to have to approach Counseling Services for him.
As someone with a real and demonstrable mental illness, Andrew chose the path of trying to shift the blame for his problems onto me by going to the SIUE police to have me arrested. As I expected, the police officer on duty at the time was not incompetent and understood what I was attempting to do. He told me that he would forward my concerns to the proper authorities on campus for further review. In the meantime, Jeffrey, instead of realizing Andrew's problems and trying to help his friend, decided to side with Andrew because Jeffrey knew that it would mean the end of their drinking and substance abusing together if Andrew received intervention for his issues. And, it would have meant that Jeffrey would have to get involved in some sort of substance abuse counseling of his own. So, Jeffrey phoned his grandparents and started the process of manipulation and lies by telling them that I was "in a lot of legal trouble" over the situation with Andrew. Nothing could have been further from the truth, but Jeffrey has never been one for the truth. When his grandparents asked me what was going on, I told them the truth about Jeffrey's and Andrew's substance abuse issues. I also told them that it had been going on for quite some time on campus and that it was growing out of hand now. As I stated above, Jeffrey's grandparents will invariably make the wrong choice when it is presented to them in such cases. They saw the incontrovertible evidence of photos and videos of Jeffrey and his pot and paraphernalia, and they instantly switched into denial mode.
Jeffrey and Andrew, in anticipation of knowing that Max and Edna would react that way, cooked up some lies to tell them about me (for which they could not possibly provide any evidence to back up their claims) in order to keep Max and Edna off balance. It was then that I decided to ask the university to intervene on their (and my) behalf. Since Jeffrey's grandparents had fully abdicated their responsibilities in the matter, I was left with no choice but to seek outside assistance for Jeffrey. I could not possibly have imagined in my worst dreams that such an incompetent police officer and an administrative buffoon (Jim Klenke) could so drastically make this situation so much worse by enabling and emboldening the boys to feel invincible with their drug abuse and increasing acts of unethical behavior. That fraudulent Twitter account stands as proof of that.
As a last point about Jeffrey's emboldened sense of invincibility and feeling that he could do any act of unethical behavior without consequence (thanks largely to Jim Klenke), I refer you to his now defunct website: JagoWilson.com . As is typical with Jeffrey, he falsified his ICANN/Whois database information when he registered the website back in May of 2011, in direct violation of their terms of service. When this was brought to the attention of his webhost, Lithiumhosting.com, back in July of 2011, he corrected the database. When it was checked a week or so later, Jeffrey had again re-entered an intentionally false name and contact information. He used, without permission, the address of his old High School in Litchfield, Illinois. I called the school to confirm that he had indeed used their address without consent. His hosting company subsequently disabled his account due to his continued malfeasance and breech of contract. Go ahead and try to call up that website- it does not work anymore. And, you can see from the DVD I submitted to Klenke's office that his website did work back in May when he was using his AOL Instant Messenger name of: a420doctor.. a reference to his ongoing use of marijuana. I guess the most important point of this story is: Isn't it a real shame that a private webhosting company has a higher standard of ethics than does SIUE's Office of Student Affairs? When they recognized that Jeffrey was not abiding by the rules, they took action. Will you and your office finally take action against Jeffrey's and Andrew's obvious problems now? I sincerely hope that you will in light of more facts being brought to your attention.
It is my hope that you will now reopen your investigation so that "this matter will be carefully reviewed and the appropriate actions taken." Would you really want it on your conscience if/when Jeffrey and/or Andrew end up hurt or dead due to a drunken/drugged driving accident or some kind of overdose? What happens when Andrew attempts suicide again because he can not adequately cope with the pressures of his life and family because you, Klenke and that cop couldn't see past the lies and egos to figure out how to do the right things for these boys? Please reconsider your stance here and get these boys (and Klenke!) the best help they can get and stop the enabling and abetting of their ongoing drug problems before they end up experimenting with much more dangerous substances.
Thank you for your time and efforts;
James G Wilson Jessica M Wilson
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