National Crime Victims’ Rights Week: April 22-28, 2012

National Crime Victims’ Rights Week:

“Extending The Vision; Reaching Every Victim. Justice For Victims. Justice For All.”

During Election 2012, one of the top issues for debate involves National Crime Victims’ Rights for homeowners who become Victims of Crimes after they have purchased real estate property in the Village of Lombard, York Township, DuPage County, Illinois. Many Lombard homeowners become victims of theft, robbery, kidnapping, abuse, torture, harassment, damages and losses, smuggling from criminals who target Lombard residents after they have purchased real estate property in DuPage County, Illinois USA. National Crime Victims’ Rights for Compensation and Victims’ Assistance is a real issue for debate during Election 2012 in the USA.

The Crime Victims’ Rights Act was signed into law on October 30, 2004. Under the Constitution, inalienable victims’ rights include the following:
1. The right to attend criminal justice proceedings;
2. The right to apply for compensation;
3. The right to be heard and participate in the criminal justice proceedings;
4. The right to be informed of proceedings and events in the criminal justice process, of legal rights and remedies, and of available services;
5. The right to protection from intimidation and harassment;
6. The right to restitution from the offender;
7. The right to prompt return of personal property seized as evidence;
8. The right to a speedy trial;
9. The right to enforcement of these rights;
10. The right to appeal denial of constitutional victims’ rights.
11. The right to be treated like a human being.
12. The right to be included in civil proceedings.

Since September 2, 1993, Mr. Roberto Hung Juris Doctor and Surviving Family, Daughter Gardenia C. Hung-Wittler, Son-in-law Nathan Scott Wittler Patriquin are Lombard resident homeowners at 502 S. Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard who have become Illinois Victims of Heinous Hate Crimes in District 5, near St. Pius X Catholic Church, the Deicke Home for the Retarded, Easter Seals of Lombard in DuPage County, Westmore Elementary School, the Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White Drivers Motor Vehicles Facility at Eastgate Shopping Center and the Islamic Foundation Center on Highridge Road in Villa Park, Illinois USA.

National Arbor Day on April 27, 2012

Plant Apple Trees on National Arbor Day

Trees are essential in the life of your garden and the sustainable environment. I found that adding Golden and Red Delicious Apple Trees from Stark Bros. Nursery to the yard for the Lombard Brick Bungalow where we lived at 502 South Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard, attracted a wood-pecker, the red cardinals and mates, blue birds, sparrows, and gold finches…along with colorful butterflies, bees, and other natural life in District 5, York Township, for DuPage County, Illinois in the USA.

Apple Blossoms have enhanced the beauty of the Lombard Brick Bungalow and the surroundings with beautiful flowers and a sweet fragrance.

The Pearl of the Antilles: Cuba

Long before the arrival of the Spaniards to the Caribbean, the island of Cuba was populated by Native American Indian tribes, that is to say, “siboneyes“, who lived in the caves and lived from hunting and fishing; “taínos” who excelled in clay pottery and practiced agriculture; and “guanajatebeyes” who were nomads and populated the western coasts.

On October 27, 1492, Christopher Columbus sighted Cuba on his first voyage.  The next day, Columbus landed, christening the port with the Christian name of “San Salvador“, “Savior”, where he touched land and, naming “Juana“, the island which he thought to be a continent.  Between 1508 and 1509, Sebastián de Ocampo navigated around the island and in 1511, Don Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar initiated the conquest of the same land.  In 1512, the city of Baracoa, at the northern tip of Cuba was founded; in 1513, Bayamo on the southwestern side; and in 1514, Trinidad in the southern middle, Sancti Spiritus, Santa María del Puerto Príncipe, Santiago de Cuba, and La Habana were established as the first seven (7) cities in the New World for the Americas.

 

The indigenous population was divided out to the entrusted and appointed landholders, “encomendaderos“.  However, abusive work, hard labor, and disease from the Old World, dominated the Native American population which motivated the introduction of African black slave labor on the island of Cuba.

The Christian Catholic King of Spain, Don Fernando II, ruler of Aragón, became married to Doña Isabel of Castilla, with equity in the exercise of power.  In the 15th century, at the beginning of 1482, the King and Queen of Spain developed military campaigns for the Reconquest of the Moorish lands which escalated to the seize of Granada, in Andalusía, Spain, circa 1492.  During the same year, the Muslim Arabs surrendered in Granada and Seville to end eight (8) centuries of Islamic control which sealed the Christian conquest for the Spanish territories.  Simultaneously, the discovery and exploration of the New World in the Americas by Don Christopher Columbus, occurred during the same times, in 1492. 

 

Christopher Columbus was a Spanish-Italian sea explorer and navigator (who was probably a native of Genoa, born in 1451 and lived until 1506, in Valladolid, Spain).  At the time, Columbus believed that in order to arrive at the East of the world, there was a route by sea to the West.  With the protection of Don Juan Pérez, Prior of La Rabida, Christopher Columbus was granted the signature for Capitulations of the Holy Faith, according to which, Columbus received the title of Admiral, Viceroy, and Governor of the lands he discovered in the New World.

 

On the first voyage, Columbus sailed from Puerto de Palos on August 3rd, at the command of the Spanish galleons “carabelas“, la Pinta, la Niña y la Santa María, and arrived to the island of Guanahaní, “San Salvador“, on October 12, 1492.

 

Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba on October 27, 1492, five hundred and twenty (520) years ago, and the island christened “La Española“, Hispaniola, also known by the Amerindian name of “Quisqueya” or Haití, where he established the Spanish fort Nativity.  On December 5, 1492, Columbus discovered the island known today as the Dominican Republic and Haití.  Afterwards, he returned to Palos and was received with triumph in Barcelona, Spain.

 

Upon the return to Spain from the discovery of the New World in the Americas by Christopher Columbus, the Spanish Catholic monarchs arranged before Pope Alexander VI the concession of the ecclesiastical Alexandrian edicts which assigned to the Spain the new territories in the New World. Since Portugal had closed the route to the spices for Castilla, Spain, Christopher Columbus had a projected mission to reach the Orient, in the East, by way of the Western (Occident) which was accepted and sponsored by the Catholic King and Queen, reigning monarchs of Spain.

 

Columbus’ accounts of his voyages in the New World remain in the Archives of the Indies as the documented description of an ethnographer, ethnologist, and ethnolinguist in the Americas.  Christopher Columbus provided and recorded news and first impressions about the native indigenous inhabitants in the Caribbean and of the lands he discovered along the way.

 

The Republic of Cuba is an insular state of Central America.  Cuba represents the island known for the same name of the country, in addition to the island of Youth or Isla de Pinos, other smaller islands in its surroundings, and some 1,600 adjoining islets known as keys or “cayos”, such as Key West, also known as Cayo Hueso.

 

Cuba can be found in the middle of the Caribbean, between the Strait of Florida and the old Channel of the Bahamas to the North; the eastern section of Cuba faces the Windward Channel; the southern littoral looks upon the Caribbean Sea or the Antilles; west of the Yucatán Peninsula and northwest toward the Gulf of México–only 99 miles from the United States of America, close to the states of Florida, Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama in the south.

 

Geographically, the island of Cuba extends in the shape of an arc from the northwest to the southeast with a longitude of 1,255 kilometers, from the tip of Cabo San Antonio to the point of Maisí.  

 

The topography of Cuba is made of predominant plains or hills, with the exception of the mountain ranges of the Sierra Maestra to the southeast, which features the elevation called Pico Turquino, the highest point of view in Cuba, at 1,974 meters in altitude, and other smaller mountainous extensions, such as the Sierra del Escambray at the center of Cuba with the Pico San Juan at 1,056 meters in altitude, and the mountain chain known as “cordilleras de los Organos”, which hardly rise above 690 meters in contrast to the elevation for the Pan de Guajabón.

 

The Cuban seacoasts are flanked by a great number of islands and islets.  These maritime keys emerge up to considerable distances from the Cuban littoral in the Caribbean.

 

Cuba has more than 200 rivers, generally not long enough, but with impetuous currents.  Among the major Cuban rivers is El Cauto which floods the surroundings areas of Santiago de Cuba during tropical storms, hurricanes, and cyclones, that is to say “maritime twisters”, and is required to be controlled by a river dam, “la represa del Cauto”.  In addition, there are the rivers called Cuyaguateje, Sagua La Grande, Sagua La Chica, Aguabama, etc.

 

The Cuban climate is softened by tropical and maritime breezes.  

The Spanish colonial city of Santiago de Cuba was founded in 1514, nestled among a series of hills near the mountain range of the Sierra Maestra, in the heart of the eastern municipal district of Oriente.

 

The architectural design of the building constructions have been adapted typically over time to the mountainous topography and frequently, the lower back rooms of the houses are found at a lower level than the front upper rooms of the same houses in Cuba.       

 

Spain called Cuba “the Pearl of the Antilles”.      

 

Original Translation into English from Spanish Source:  2000 Nuevo Espasa Ilustrado.  Diccionario Enciclopédico.  Espasa Calpe, S.A. (1999), España

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A Lombard Resident Homeowner Victim of Heinous Hate Crimes

The Estate of Roberto Hung & Family was purchased in the name of the late Mr. Roberto Hung, Sr., who became a victim of crime after he purchased Lombard real estate property and became a registered Lombard homeowner for P.I.N. 06-09-315-038-0000, real estate property legally acquired and recorded in Du Page County, during September 2, 1993 through September 2, 1996 and paid in full at the Maple Park State Bank with cash retirement funds, IRA money markets, and 401K monies accrued in employment savings through profit-sharing invested at Felt-Pro, Inc. auto gasket company, also known today as Federal Mogul Corporation Sealing Systems, located at 7450 North McCormick Boulevard, in Skokie, Illinois 60076-8103. Felt-Pro, Inc.–managed and family-owned by Lewis C. Weinberg, the Lehman Brothers, Mr. Kessler, and others, along with son David Weinberg and daughter, Barbara Kessler.

 

In 1996, Mr. Roberto Hung turned 65 years of age and decided to continue working during the day at The Pampered Chef, located at One Swift Road in Addison, Illinois.   Then, Mr. Hung added part-time work hours at night and during the weekends at Dominick’s Food Stores in Oakbrook Terrace to supplement his retirement income.  Mr. Hung became a U.S. citizen in Chicago, of Cuban and Chinese descent.

Mr. Roberto Hung was abused and victimized while he worked for The Pampered Chef in Addison and Dominick’s Food Stores in Oakbrook Terrace in Illinois.  Mr. Hung became a victim of crime after he purchased Lombard Real Estate property at 502 S. Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Boulevard, one block southeast from St. Pius X Catholic Church and School in the Village of Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois USA.

 

The late Mr. Roberto Hung Sr., was a retired Cuban-Chinese attorney, who worked as Municipal District Attorney in Santiago de Cuba, while he also served as judge for the Municipal District Court of Santiago de Cuba, in Oriente, Cuba. Mr. Roberto Hung was a graduate cum laude from the Law School at the University of La Habana in Cuba. In the State of Illinois, Du Page County, Mr. Roberto Hung became a Lombard resident homeowner, U.S. citizen, and also a paying member of the Illinois Sheriffs Association, who contributed to local, state, and presidential cash fundraisers, to include donations to the Lombard Fire Department and Police Department, and other national charities. On December 22, 1996, he had written a donation checks for the Lombard Fire Department and to his son Robert S. Hung, after paying his household bills, before he became injured at home, 502 S. Westmore Avenue in Lombard, Du Page County, Illinois.

After Mr. Roberto Hung paid for the Lombard real estate property, he was abused as a resident homeowner, taxpayer, and U.S. citizen. On December 22, 1996, Mr. Hung was injured at home in Lombard after 9:00 PM, before Christmas Day. Mr. Roberto Hung survived the traumatic brain injury when his eldest daughter Gardenia C. Hung provided first responder’s emergency assistance and called 911 in the Village of Lombard. After Mr. Hung recovered from a stroke in 1997, he was throttled and murdered by the respiratory therapist Ben Aguilar at Vencor Northlake Hospital, on June 18, 1998, in Northlake, Cook County, Illinois.

Coincidentally, Felt-Pro, Inc., the automotive gasket sealing magnet, known for a wide-range of worker benefits was also sold in 1998, in the amount of $720 million dollars to Federal Mogul Corporation based in Michigan and nation-wide. Ten years later, Mr. Lewis C. Weinberg died, on Thursday, October 30, 2008, at his Chicago home in Illinois, at the age of 93 years old.  Since Felt-Pro, Inc. was sold in 1997, Mr. Roberto Hung became abused, injured, and eventually murdered, while holding Lombard real estate property, residency, and homeownership in the County of Du Page.

For the record, the estimated market value of the subject property was $272, 850.00 in 2008, plus the value of family, personal, professional business assets of the Hung Family in Lombard, Du Page County, Illinois. The Lombard Brick Bungalow, built in 1927, was damaged extensively by public use and unauthorized access entries by the Lombard Police Department, the Fire Department, the Village of Lombard, and other intruders during the course of municipal services and operations which caused detrimental disaster, roofing water damages , plumbing flooding and demolition losses. On Wednesday, November 5, 2008, the Lombard Fire Department, instigated by Keith Steiskal, and others, demolished the Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow at 502 S Westmore-Meyers Road in Du Page. Now the Hung Family is petitioning for cash compensation, restitution, and financial remuneration by the Village of Lombard and others who have publicly used the private property owned by the Hung Family in the Estate of Mr. Roberto Hung Supplemental Care Trust.

FOR THE RECORD, MR. ROBERTO HUNG, NEVER RECEIVED THE SENIOR CITIZENS HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, EVEN THOUGH HE PAID IN FULL FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE LOMBARD HISTORIC BRICK BUNGALOW BUILT IN 1927. On September 2nd, 1993, Mr. Roberto Hung purchased the Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow from Debra Y. Sekrecki, with an initial down payment of $2,000, as earnest money paid by personal check, added to the total cash payment of $88,000 at a fixed interest rate not to exceed 8.00% per year, amortized over a period of fifteen (15) years. At the time, Debra Y. Sekrecki had two (2) children, a boy and a girl, lived with Stella, the tenant upstairs, and father Adam Sekrecki. On July 11, 1993, Mr. Roberto Hung signed a Standard Residential Sales Contract from the Du Page Association of Realtors in agreement to purchase the Lombard real estate property at 502 S. Westmore Avenue in Lombard, Illinois 60148-3028, owned by seller Debra Y. Sekrecki. The original closing date was scheduled on September 11, 1993. However, Roberto Hung was called by telephone to appear sooner on September 2nd, 1993, at 3:30 p.m., at the law office of Alan Dakoff, Telephone: 708-966-0488, located at 9291 North Maryland, in Niles, Illinois 60714, U.S.A. Century 21, Action Real Estate provided a Buyer Service Pledge presented by Steve Block, Telephone: 630-627-5500, and Dino, the real estate agent with Roberto Hung, signed in agreement. Afterwards, Roberto Hung received a copy of Rider 412, Buyer’s Inspection which he signed as buyer with Debra Sekrecki, as seller.

In 1993, Century 21, Action Real Estate described in a listing the Highlights of the Lombard Historic Brick Bungalow at the corner of Westmore Avenue and Washington Blvd., owned by Debra Y. Sekrecki with tenant Stella. At the time, the Du Page County Real Estate Taxes were only $2,744 for the brick house. After Roberto Hung purchased the same Lombard Brick House, the Lombard property taxes doubled for more than $4,000, without providing the Senior Citizens Homestead Exemption as a tax credit. This Lombard Brick Home is located near Westmore Elementary School and St. Pius X Church School, Jackson Middle School, and Willowbrook High School. George Hornbeck’s Parcel No. 06-09-315038 is a subdivision, spacious 4-bedroom brick home with a second floor in-law or potential income arrangement. There are nine (9) rooms available with hardwood floors. Full finished basement. Front and rear enclosed porches for added living space. Fully fenced yard with a gas grill. There is a 2-car garage. Public transportation is available. This Lombard home is close to school and shopping, near the Eastgate Center and State of Illinois facilities for the Secretary of State Vehicle Licenses Center and the Illinois Employment and Training Center (I.E.T.C.). Action Real Estate for Century 21 was serving Du Page and Cook counties at the Lombard Pines Shopping Center, 1125-J South Main Street, Lombard, Illinois 60148, in care of realtor Dino. The real estate closing documents for purchase were prepared by Attorney Dean G. Galanopoulos and Robert G. Galgan, Jr. Atty. No.1948, at 340 West Butterfield Road, Elmhurst, Illinois 60126.

The First State Bank of Maple Park mailed a letter on November 10, 1995 to Mr. Roberto Hung, which notified the Lombard homeowner that the bank was transferring the servicing of the Loan Mortgage to the Dime Savings Bank of New York, FSB, P.O. Box 985, Newark, New Jersey 07101-0985. Customer Service Park, 231 East Avenue, Suite 200, Tel. 1-800-222-0912. Robert Hung was informed that the mortgage rates would increase as a balloon mortgage for the Dime Savings Bank of New York. Since Robert Hung did not want to incur additional mortgage interest rates, He Decided To Pay in Full Cash for the remainder balance of the Lombard Real Estate Property for P.I.N. 06-09-315-038, Lot 2 in George P. Hornbeck’s Resubdivision of Part of the West one-half of the South West one-fourth of Section 9, Township 39 North, Range 11, East of the Third Meridian, According to the Plat thereof recorded on February 19, 1980 as Document No. R80-10413, in Du Page County, Illinois.

On September 2nd, 1996, Mr. Roberto Hung completed full cash payment of the Lombard Brick Home at First State Bank of Maple, located at 1100 County Line Road, Maple Park, Illinois 60151, in care of Joy S. Reynolds, Tel. (815) 827-4000, Fax. (815) 827-3207, Toll Free No. 1-800-449-2700, while Bruce Madden was president of the First State Bank, and witnessed by his daughter, Gardenia C. Hung, and the bank manager. Mr. Roberto Hung and his eldest daughter, married to Nathan S. Wittler, improved the Lombard Brick house by adding oak cabinets, an exterior halogen flood night light, (2) automatic garage door openers, changed all door locks, added gardening landscaping, apple trees orchard, and perennial flowers, and exotic plant species.

On December 22, 1996, Mr. Hung was injured at home in Lombard after 9:00 PM, before Christmas Day. After recovering from a stroke in 1997, Roberto Hung was throttled and murdered by the respiratory therapist Ben Aguilar at Vencor Northlake Hospital, on June 18, 1998.

We are remembering how Mr. Roberto Hung was murdered at Vencor Northlake Hospital by Respiratory Therapist Ben Aguilar in Cook County, Illinois, while he was a critical care patient under the medical care of Dr. Grodzin, M.D. from Elmhurst Memorial Hospital and previous medical care of Dr. Tom Cornwell M.D., and Nurse Nancy Minch, R.N., with CNA Carol and Jennifer… from Home Care Physicians in Winfield, Illinois USA.

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East Meets West

The best thing about Lombard is The Eastgate Shopping Center, a community neighborhood located along Westmore-Meyers Road, between Wilson Avenue and Jackson, in the Village of Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois. The Eastgate Center is only five blocks from Route 38, on Roosevelt Road and Westmore-Meyers Road in Illinois. Eastgate is notable for the Drivers Services Facility, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, and the Illinois Employment and Training Center. The Eastgate community has a multi-ethnic and diverse population near Trinity Lutheran Church and School, the Islamic Foundation Center, Saint Pius X Catholic Church and School, and the Lombard Community Church on Madison Street in DuPage County, Illinois. Schroeder’s Ace Hardware and the 7-Eleven convenience stores open regular hours, accesible to the public with free parking. There is also the Chinese Restaurant for Mr. Wonton  featuring authentic Cantonese cuisine, Oriental decor for dining inside, online ordering, and fast delivery.  Eastgate Center combines the best of town and country life in the western suburbs for residential and commercial businesses, educational facilities, banking, laundromat, restaurants, etc. Nearby, Madison Meadow Park hosts many community events, family reunions, picnics, celebrations, athletic and recreational sports during the year, as well as music concerts, fireworks during the July 4th festivities, arts and crafts exhibits, Lombard Food Festival, and many other sports, games, and tournaments, close to the Eastgate Center in Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois. Lombard is a great place for the Lilac Festival at Lilacia Park…

Certified Legal Interpreting and Translation in Illinois, USA

I started language interpreting for Action Translation with the Illinois Industrial Commission in Chicago at the James R. Thompson Illinois Government Center when Joseph Raudonis used to live in Palos Heights, Illinois—I found a job wanted ad in the newspaper and telephoned Action Translation for assignments translating legal documents for Spanish into English.

Then,   I met Carmen Kenny, a legal interpreter at the Arbitration Center in Chicago, who was looking for a freelance interpreter and translator who could share legal interpreting assignments in the Chicagoland area, travel on-site to judicial hearings, arbitrations, depositions, and translate legal documents upon assignment for Carmen Kenny & Associates based in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

A colleague referred me to Arroyave Academy of Languages managed by Guillermo Arroyave himself in Highland Park and Arlington Heights, who was looking for a communications cross-cultural consultant who could teach foreign languages, interpret, and translate from English into Spanish, French, and/or Portuguese, available for travelling around the Chicagoland area—throughout the counties of Cook, Lake, Will, DuPage, Kane, Grundy, LaSalle, etc.

I had been working for Berlitz Schools of Languages in Chicago, Hinsdale, Oak Brook, and Schaumburg as a language cross-cultural consultant. 

By professional referral and networking, I was contacted by Inlingua Schools in Chicago to work as a professional cross-cultural consultant, language interpreter and translator on-site, in the Chicagoland area.

In addition, I was a member of the American Translators Association and Chicago Area Translators and Interpreters Association.In 1990, I found a newspaper job ad from Diplomatic Languages Service, Inc. , based in Virginia, looking for language interpreters and translators in Chicago, Illinois.

During the 1990’s I interpreted and translated for several Translation Agencies:  Burg Translation, Palencia Language Services,  Interlate Systems, Inc., Linguistic Systems, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts, Access Translation managed by Rosa Ridderbusch in Lake Zurich, AIM Translations in Bloomingdale, Illinois. 

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A Perfect Crime Committed by the Lombard Police and Fire Department

The Lombard Police and Fire Department have been responsible for the crimes committed at the Estate of Roberto Hung and Family while the Lombard resident homeowners were at work, travelling, or out-of-town in DuPage County, Illinois, out-of-state or abroad. Consequently, the Village of Lombard has the obligation to compensate and pay the Hung Family for all the damages and losses to the Estate of Roberto Hung and Family in Illinois, USA. The Hung Family members have been Lombard resident homeowners at 502 S. Westmore Avenue and Washington Blvd. in DuPage County. The Hung Family has purchased two (2) Lombard homes during 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 in York Township, Illinois, USA.

For the last nineteen years, the Family of Mr. Roberto Hung, resident Lombard homeowners and U.S. citizens at 502 S. Westmore-Meyers Road and Washington Blvd. have been Victims of Heinous Hate Crime Caused by the Village of Lombard and DuPage County, Illinois, United States of America because they purchased two (2) Lombard Real Estate properties and paid cash for their homes, near St. Pius X Catholic Church and School at 1025 East Madison St. and Westmore-Meyers Road in the Village of Lombard, DuPage County, Illinois, United States of America.

THE VILLAGE OF LOMBARD HAS TO PAY THE HUNG FAMILY FOR DAMAGES AND LOSSES TO THE ESTATE OF ROBERTO HUNG AND FAMILY MEMBERS ABUSED AS VICTIMS OF CRIMES SET UP BY THE LOMBARD POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT IN DUPAGE COUNTY ILLINOIS USA.Consulting Media Arts Communications©2012 Gardenia Hung.

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1993-2008 DAMAGES AND LOSSES AT THE HUNG FAMILY REAL ESTATE AT

502 SOUTH WESTMORE-MEYERS ROAD, LOMBARD, DUPAGE COUNTY, ILLINOIS 60148-3028

OVERVIEW REPORT BY GARDENIA C. HUNG, M.A.

DAUGHTER OF THE LATE MR. ROBERTO HUNG, J.D.

I. BRICK BUNGALOW HOUSE WITH 3-LEVELS: 1ST FLOOR, 2ND FLOOR, BASEMENT, GARAGE

A. FIRST FLOOR.- FOYER/LOBBY FRONT.- DAMAGED DOOR LOCK,SHUT

1. CEILING PANELS STAINED, CRACKED

2. GLASS WINDOW PANES, 6TH WINDOW SOUTH, CRACKED GLASS

8TH WINDOW SOUTH, CRACKED GLASS

3. DOOR BELL IS BROKEN

4. DOOR KNOB IS BROKEN, FORCED

5. DOOR PANEL, STAINED BY FORCED ENTRY

6. DOOR LOCK/KNOB IS BROKEN, FORCED

7. FRONT STEPS, CHIPPED CONCRETE

8. BRICK BASE NEEDS TUCKPOINTING

B. LIVING ROOM.- 25-GALLON AQUARIUM, DEAD FISH, POISONED CLOROX

1. FLOOR-DRILLED HOLE BY UNAUTHORIZED CABLE CONTRACTOR

2. SOUTH WALL SEEPAGE, PEELING PAINT, CRACKED WALLS

3. SOUTH WALL DAMAGE TO ELECTRICAL WIRING SYSTEM

4. CEILING CRACKED PEELING PAINT CAUSED BY WEATHER EXPOSURE, MOISTURE, WINTERSTORMS

C. DINING ROOM

1. CEILING BULGING TILES, FALLING TILES ON THE WEST CORNER

2. WINDOW GLASS BULLET HOLE, UPPER LEFT GLASS PANE, CRACKED

GLASS WINDOW PANE

3. CARPETING.- WALL-TO-WALL DAMAGE

D. MASTER BEDROOM

1. COLLAPSED CEILING OVER TEAK QUEEN-SIZE BEDROOM SET, VANITY

(2) CHEST OF DRAWERS, (2) NIGHT STAND TABLES, (2) LAMPS

2. WALLS DAMAGED BY MOLD, MILDEW, WATER SEEPAGE

3. CARPETING WALL-TO-WALL DAMAGED

E. CORRIDOR

1. FLOOR WARPED WOODEN PLANKS TO BE REPLACED

2. CARPETING WALL-TO-WALL DAMAGED

3. CEILING GYPSUM COLLAPSED, CRACKED

4. ELECTRICAL WIRING SYSTEM DAMAGED BY WATER SEEPAGE

F. BATHROOM

1. CEILING COLLAPSED WHEN PLUMPING PIPES AND FIXTURES BURST

DUE TO EXCESSIVE WATER PRESSURE UNGAUGED BY THE LOMBARD

WATER DEPARTMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS

2. CEILING WOODEN STRUCTURE DAMAGED BY WATER SEEPAGE

3. PLUMBING PIPES AND FIXTURES DAMAGED

G. GUEST BEDROOM (SOUTHWEST FACING BACKYARD) STUDY

1. CLOSET IS DAMAGED BY PLUMBING PIPES BURSTING DUE TO

UNGAUGED WATER PRESSURE

2. WATER SEEPAGE IN CLOSET ACCESS TO PLUMBING PIPES SHARED BY

THE BATHROOM AND THE BASEMENT LEVELS.

G. STOLEN CLOTHING, BOOKS, FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS, DOCUMENTS

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR FILES BELONGING TO GARDENIA C. HUNG

H. KITCHEN

1. SINK PLUMBING PIPES ARE TURNED OFF

2. FLOOR TILES ARE CRACKED, WATER-LOGGED, TO BE REPLACED

3. CEILING PAINT CRACKED, PEELING

4. REFRIGERATOR IS DAMAGED

5. DISHWATER IS DAMAGED

6. DISHES ARE BROKEN

I. BASEMENT

1. PLUMBING PIPES BURST DUE TO UNGAUGED WATER PRESSURE

2. COLLAPSED CEILING, CRACKED, EXPOSED PIPES, MOLD, MILDEW

3. WATER SEEPAGE, HUMIDITY, MOLD, MILDEW

4. WALLS CRACKED, PEELING PAINT

5. GLASS VENTS CLOSED/OPEN SCREENS BROKEN, TO BE REPLACED

6. (2) REFRIGERATORS DAMAGED – VERTICAL UPRIGHT/HALF FRIDGE

7. POOL TABLE GREEN MAT IS DAMAGED

8. BAR DAMAGED DUE TO COLLAPSED CEILING, MOLD, MILDEW

9. WASHING MACHINE IS DAMAGED

10. HEATING FURNACE SYSTEM/AIR CONDITIONING IS DAMAGED

11. STORAGE ROOM, BOOK SHELVES, STOLEN BOOKS BY INTRUDERS

12. STORAGE ROOM INSULATION TO BE REPLACED, FINISHED

13. LAUNDRY ROOM, CEILING FIXTURE PANEL CRACKED, BROKEN

14. CEILING PANEL PULLED DOWN

15. WALL PAINT CRACKED, PEELING

J. BACK PORCH.- INTRUDERS USED A HEAT TORCH ON PAINT BEHIND DOOR
CRACKED WOODEN BEAM BY THE WINDOW

1. CEILING LEAKAGE ON RAINY DAYS

2. LIGHT FIXTURE AND ELECTRICAL SYSTEM IS WATER DAMAGED

3. DOOR BELL IS BROKEN, FORCED, PULLED OUT BY INTRUDERS

4. DOOR BELL WIRING IS PULLED OUT

5. DOOR SCREEN IS DAMAGED, INSIDE, OUTSIDE, TORN OFF FROM HINGES, DROPPED OFF, TO BE REPLACED

6. PORCH DOOR IS DAMAGED, CRACKED PAINT, PEELING TO BE REPLACED

7. GLASS DOOR KNOBS DAMAGES TO BE REPLACED

II. SECOND FLOOR

1. STAIRS, STEPS.- WOODEN, WATER STAINED, GLASS DOOR KNOB IS

DAMAGED, BROKEN

2. WALLS, CEILING PAINT CRACKED, PEELING

3. STORAGE ROOM INSULATION IS DAMAGED BY INTRUDERS TO BE

REPLACED AND REFINISHED

A. STUDY/HALF BEDROOM

1. PAINT CRACKED, PEELING

2. DAMAGED TO PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER PC EQUIPMENT, STOLEN

CD-ROM DRIVE. STOLEN DOCUMENTS FROM MR. ROBERTO HUNG

B. BEDROOM

1. CLOSED IS DAMAGED BY WATER SEEPAGE, MOLD, MILDEW,

CRACKED WALL

2. CEILING LIGHT FIXTURE CRACKED AND BROKEN GLASS OVER BED

C. KITCHEN

1. CEILING CRACKED AND PAINT PEELING CAUSED BY HEAT TORCH USED BY INTRUDERS, TRESPASSERS AND UNAUTHORIZED ENTRIES

D. PANTRY, TO BE RESTORED, REMODELED, REPAINTED, REFINISHED

1. PANTRY CEILING PAINT CRACKED, PEELING, MOLD, MILDEW

2. PANTRY STORAGE DOOR CRACKED, MOLD, MILDEW, REPLACE

E. BATHROOM, PLUMBING PIPE FIXTURES BURST FROM 2ND TO 1ST FLOOR

PAINT CRACKED, PEELING, TO BE RESTORED, REMODELED, REDONE

F. LIVING ROOM FURNITURE STAINED AND DAMAGED

1. CEILING CRACKING, FISSURE UNDER ROOFING STRESS

2. WALL RETAIN HUMIDITY, MOLD, MILDEW

III. GARAGE

1. GARAGE DOOR OPENER IS BROKEN, DAMAGED, SEARS BRAND

2. REPLACE GARAGE DOOR

3. LAWN MOWER IS DAMAGED, BROKEN POWER STRING

4. ALUMINUM SIDING POST (LEFT) IS CRACKED, BROKEN

5. WOODEN-FRAME STRUCTURE IS DAMAGED BY HUMIDITY

6. CONDUIT FOR ELECTRICAL WIRING WAS PULLED DOWN

7. DAMAGE TO NINE (9) MOTORIZED AUTO VEHICLES, CARS, SUV, MOTORCYCLE, LAWN MOWER, ETC.

8. NEW ROOFING FOR GARAGE TO MATCH THE HOUSE IN AGED REDWOOD SHINGLES

IV. BACKYARD

1. ROOFING DAMAGE TO ROOFING SHINGLES, WOODEN STRUCTURE, WIRING, GUTTERS, DUCTWORK

2. T.V. ANTENNA FOR COMMUNICATIONS KNOCKED DOWN BY CABLE CONTRACTOR HIRED BY THE VILLAGE OF LOMBARD AND UNAUTHORIZED BY THE HUNG FAMILY OR G.C. HUNG

3. SIDE ROOFING DAMAGE

4. FENCE DAMAGED BY EVA AND JOHN CARPENTER & SONS, AS WELL AS BY INTRUDERS, TRESPASSERS JUMPING THE FENCING POSTS WHICH ARE DAMAGED AND SPLINTERED BY SBC TELEPHONE COMPANY AND OTHER INTRUDERS AND CRIMINALS

5. FENCE POSTS ARE BROKEN, SPLINTERED, KNOCKET OUT, KICKED IN

6. GRASS LAWN TRAMPLED, FLOWER BED BORDERS DAMAGED

LOMBARD DAMAGES & LOSSES TO HUNG FAMILY REAL ESTATE PROPERTY, ASSETS, AUTOMOBILES, MOTORIZED EQUIPMENT, ETC. FROM 1993-2007

MEMO OVERVIEW FROM GARDENIA C. HUNG, M.A.

TYPED ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2006, 10:55:35 AM

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