Life, Values & Legacy: Our Chat with Brian Vukadinovich

Brian Vukadinovich shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.

Hi Brian, thank you so much for joining us today. We’re thrilled to learn more about your journey, values and what you are currently working on. Let’s start with an ice breaker: What are you chasing, and what would happen if you stopped?
I am chasing justice from the federal judiciary in terms of what former federal court of appeals judge Richard Posner did to me in recruiting me to work for him and then refusing to pay for the work I did for him as he promised. It is a classic breach of contract case, but the federal judiciary is bending over backwards to protect him from his con. If I stopped chasing justice from the federal judiciary and allowed Posner to get away with his con, then others of high influence such as Posner would be able to get away with the same thing by the immoral and unlawful precedents that have been taking place by the federal judiciary in wrongfully protecting Posner because of his status as a former federal court of appeals judge. The federal judiciary has essentially proceeded as though Posner is above the law, and if I stopped pursuing justice in the case, the old axiom “nobody is above the law” would have no meaning and would be nothing more than hollow words that sound good but actually mean nothing. What the federal judiciary is doing in protecting Posner in disregarding its own operating rules and case laws is shameful and immoral. It has been judicial corruption on steroids. Judicial corruption is like poison gas, once it has been let out of the cannister, it is hard to extinguish. I feel very strongly that the state and federal judiciaries are in serious need of significant judicial reforms. Courts are routinely committing judicial genocide against the peoples’ rights to fairness and justice by overwhelmingly favoring government agencies, corporations, and people of influence, and unfairly short-changing the common people of their rights to fairness and justice —and that needs to change. I will continue to be a voice for that change.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I am a retired teacher and basketball coach in Indiana, and I have served as executive director of The Posner Center of Justice for Pro Se’s based in Chicago, Illinois. I have successfully represented myself in state and federal court proceedings in Indiana, including winning a federal jury verdict against my former public school corporation employer in Indiana in March 2016 for violating my due process rights in a five-day trial where I represented myself against the corporation’s team of lawyers. I have spoken on the topic of pro se representation (representing oneself without a lawyer) in several different forums and interviews, including speaking to a Yale Law School class about how I was able to successfully represent myself and win the federal civil rights jury trial against my former public school corporation employer.

I am very passionate about social justice issues and the federal judiciary’s indifference to people’s civil rights claims. I am the author of the books “Motion for Justice: I Rest My Case” and “Rogues in Black Robes”. I have also written several op-eds on social justice and judicial unfairness issues which have been published by the Washington Examiner, Kansas City Star, Miami Herald and several other major newspapers. My books are on the shelves of several public libraries in different states, and also on the shelves of several prominent law school libraries including Harvard, Yale and University of Syracuse law schools, and also abroad on the shelves of libraries in the United Kingdom, Japan and Israel. In September 2019, I did a book signing in El Paso, Texas to support the #ElPasoStrong campaign just after the tragic shooting massacre at the El Paso Walmart. I have been a featured guest on the television program “Pro Se Nation” based in Princeton, New Jersey, and also a featured guest of Megan Fox on her podcast show “The Fringe with Megan Fox Episode 54: Secret Courts and Judicial Misconduct with Author Brian”, and also a featured guest on a prominent podcast out of England hosted by British podcaster Richard Vobes where the interview was titled “Judicial Corruption in America”, and also a featured guest on “Slam the Gavel” podcast hosted by Maryann Petri, and featured guest on “The Imagination Podcast” hosted by Emma Katherine, and featured guest on “Courtroom5” with hosts Sonja Ebron and Debra Slone. I was a featured guest for the “2022 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration” event hosted by Indiana University Social Justice Conference where my topic was titled “Standing Up for One’s Civil Rights with Brian Vukadinovich”. I am available for speaking engagements. https://speakerpedia.com/speakers/brian-vukadinovich https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/speakers/451268/Brian-Vukadinovich

I am currently involved in a federal appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago where I am addressing serious issues of malfeasances that have taken place in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, in Hammond Indiana, regarding issues of breach of contract by former federal court of appeals judge Richard Posner who recruited me to work for him, and then reneged on our agreement and refused to pay me for my work. There have been some very substantial nefarious activities that have taken place in the case by Posner’s lawyers and the judges in order to protect Posner from his con in order that he can escape his responsibilities from our agreement and in the end being able to receive free labor from me. One of Posner’s lawyers very inappropriately wrote a letter directly to the magistrate judge and asked him for his “help” and “assistance” to help put the case to a “swift end” —to which the court accommodated Posner after receiving the letter from Posner’s lawyer. Lawyers are not supposed to be writing letters to judges asking for “help” and “assistance” to put cases to a “swift end”, and courts are not supposed to be accommodating lawyers with such nefarious requests —only corrupt courts do such a thing. The involved judges and Posner’s lawyers are concerned that if I am ultimately able to get the case to a jury trial, that I will expose the corruption that took place in the case between his lawyers and the judges —and make no mistake about it, corruption has been the rule of the day in the case with Posner’s lawyers and the judges, and I will indeed expose it. This is the Mount Everest of judicial corruption. The ball is now in the court of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago that will decide if fairness and justice is ultimately going to take place, or if the status quo of the judicial corruption should continue to be the rule of the day. It will be the ultimate test case as to just how far the federal judiciary will go to protect one of its own. Reuters and several other major news organizations have been reporting on the case.

Okay, so here’s a deep one: Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
I was a teacher and high school basketball coach before the world taught me who I had to be. After being falsely arrested in a case of mistaken identity in 1981 when I walked into a bank in Valparaiso, Indiana with my mother on a Saturday morning to do some banking business for our shopping trip that day, I was physically accosted and falsely arrested by rogue Valparaiso, Indiana police in a case of mistaken identity, and after having to go through a court trial, and being found not guilty of the bogus charge, I was awarded an out of court settlement for the police brutality and false arrest. The police retaliated by falsely arresting me nine times afterwards and I successfully fought the bogus charges from the conspiracy each and every time by either being found not guilty or the bogus charges dismissed, or in one case a pardon from the governor of Indiana after I provided evidence of the police falsifying and switching evidence in the form of an affidavit in an attempt to justify a false arrest that was part of the conspiracy to take me down. After what I went through, I learned firsthand how corrupt the “system” can be –and is– and I took it upon myself to learn the law and represent myself without an attorney as I learned that lawyers generally cannot be trusted. I successfully represented myself in several of the bogus criminal cases that were filed against me and then I was convinced that it was my mission in life to expose police and judicial corruption, which led to the writing of my two books “Motion for Justice: I Rest My Case” and “Rogues in Black Robes” and other writings and interviews and public speaking that I have done.

What have been the defining wounds of your life—and how have you healed them?
The most defining wounds of my life were how hard it was for my dear mother to have to worry about my safety at the point in my life when rogue police in northern Indiana were harassing and stalking and physically brutalizing me in retaliating against me because I stood up for my constitutional rights from the bogus false arrest by Valparaiso, Indiana police in 1981 and several times afterwards when they kept harassing and retaliating against me, and for standing up against the major police conspiracy that was put in place to take me down because I successfully stood up to the rogue Valparaiso, Indiana police and their compadres each and every time. I went through several police brutalities during the false arrests including a rogue police officer in northwest Indiana breaking my jaw during a false arrest to which a jury acquitted me of the false charge after a two day jury trial. The stigma from the false arrests cost me teaching jobs and coaching jobs and it was a very difficult thing for my mother to have to suffer through. But time heals and while it was very difficult for my mother, she and my brother stood by my side all the way and that went a long way in the healing process. As a family, we have always stood tall and fought against injustice. We always knew that “freedom” is not always so “free” and many times there is a very high price to pay for it.

Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. What’s a belief or project you’re committed to, no matter how long it takes?
I am committed to proving in my breach of contract case against former federal court of appeals judge Richard Posner that he reneged on our agreement when he recruited me to work from him after he retired from the federal judiciary and then refused to pay me for my work to him. I am committed to proving how the district court after receiving a letter from one of Posner’s lawyers asking the court to “help” and “assist” Posner to get the case put to a “swift end” accommodated his request. The district court was so unfair it permitted Posner to conduct discovery as to his defenses but disallowed me from conducting discovery into my claims which not only defied any measure of common sense and fairness, but also went against other decisions from the same district by other judges who denounced “bifurcated” discovery. The district court gave Posner a pass from his bogus defenses which it was able to pull off by denying discovery to me notwithstanding that one sided discovery is frowned upon even by the Supreme Court of the United States. There were many nefarious rulings in the case that went completely against the governing rules and case laws, and it is very clear that the case was rigged from the outset to protect Posner, a former federal court of appeals judge. There are also issues of Posner and/or his enablers lying to the IRS and possible embezzlement of donated funds to the Posner Center of Justice for Pro Se’s headed by Posner that the judiciary is protecting in order that the evidence doesn’t reach public light. The case is currently in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. If the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit chooses to be complicit with the judicial shenanigans that have been taking place to protect Posner, it will easily go down in history as one of the biggest judicial crimes of the century. If the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago decides to participate in the cover up –and there are already signs of it– it will be something that should warrant public hearings by the House and Senate Judiciary Committees since the evidence will strongly show that the judges took part in concealing evidence of criminal activities on the part of Posner and/or his enablers —which would in effect result in the judges themselves being deemed as criminals by their complicity. Because the evidence of wrongdoing is so strong, and the federal judiciary knows I can prove it, the federal judiciary is going out of its way to stop me from presenting the evidence to a jury of which obstruction of justice calculated to deny my fundamental right to a jury trial is a violation of the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The federal judiciary knows it has a problem which is precisely why it is hell bent on trying to prevent me from presenting the case to a jury as it knows I would indeed defeat Posner’s lawyers and expose the malfeasances that the federal judiciary is attempting to cover up.

Okay, we’ve made it essentially to the end. One last question before you go. What do you think people will most misunderstand about your legacy?
Most people don’t understand why it was so important for me to fight injustice in my life at the expense of my finances and livelihood and my career as a teacher and basketball coach. When I was fighting the police harassments and retaliatory arrests that were perpetrated against me because I stood up for my rights and successfully fought numerous bogus charges brought by rogue Indiana police, which cost me money and teaching jobs, many people thought I should back off and accept the injustices —but I could not do that. My career goal was to become a Division 1 head basketball coach and I knew deep down inside of me that fighting the injustices would make that career goal impossible because of the adverse effect of the publicity and how unsavory lawyers would go out of their way, as they certainly did do, to retaliate against me and see to it that I would not be able to fulfill my career goals, and to otherwise make life difficult for me. But it is something I had to wrestle with, and looking back, I still would not have done anything differently as it was very important to me to stand up and fight for my rights whatever the costs. This is something most people don’t understand about me. But at this stage of my life I am able to look in a mirror and feel good about what I was able to do, even though the costs were quite heavy. Fighting for justice is too important and I will never waver from it.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.brianvukadinovich.com
• Twitter: @motion4justice
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