Rick White, headed into the Richland County Courtroom with his attorney, William Hudson, February 2013
RICHLAND CO.—Those who have been following the unfolding saga of ISP investigator Rick White and the stalking claim made by his former supervisor Kelly Henby will be interested in learning what occurred in Richland County circuit court Tuesday.
After all, Illinois State Police Division of Internal Investigations are interested….they’ve been attending every hearing.
Our correspondent in Olney advised that the hearing held Tuesday, July 1 kicked off promptly at 2 p.m. and involved the arguments as we presented them in the June 2014 edition (which you can see if you have an online subscription to the e-Edition at this link here; and if you have a sub, you might also want to check into the sizable article we produced in advance of that one in the May-June 2014 edition at this link here). At issue, basically, is whether or not Rick White’s behavior toward Kelly Henby over two years’ time (2011-2013) constituted “stalking.” Henby says it does: he says that White engaged in a course of conduct that resulted in Henby getting fraudulently charged with a misdemeanor in Coles County, then taking that failed case to the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation (one of lil Pricky’s favorite alternatives when he can’t get someone in trouble criminally) and creating such a case against his intended victim that they lose a professional license. In this instance, Henby was sanctioned regarding the way his employer, PII (a private investigation service) worded things on a business card. Yes, Rick White gets that petty.
Following that, White, Henby says, engaged in a course of conduct that continued to take him in contact with members of Henby’s family, including after his wife’s grandmother died in early 2013…where at the funeral, White showed up, and caused concern for the Henbys by his presence alone. White was told to leave the funeral home…and immediately following that, Henby filed a Stalking/No-Contact order against him in February 2013.
Now, for those who are thinking this is tenuous at best…it appeared, at the outset, that that’s what Judge Chris Weber thought, too. At the February 2013 hearing, Weber determined that Henby hadn’t articulated clearly what “at least two instances of stalking” were, and gave him leave to elaborate on it. Later that year, he did…by stating that White had started the “stalking” when he had ISP’s Greg Hanisch contact us here at Disclosure in order to advise us that there was a warrant for Henby’s arrest in Coles, in early February 2011.
Hanisch did, as we published here and in print many times.
But was White right in doing such a thing?
Kelly Henby, talking to his attorney Chuck Roberts in February 2013
That’s what Weber was tasked with ruling on yesterday in court.
As a course of action in the case, Henby’s attorney, (not-our-favorite-person) Chuck Roberts, had filed to obtain materials from ISP, issuing subpoenas. ISP has refused to release the material even via subpoena (because, you know; they’re above the law) and as a result sent an attorney from the Illinois Attorney General’s office to represent their interests in the case. White is represented by very capable attorney William Hudson of Mt. Carmel…but Hudson doesn’t have much to work with. That’s because White has come up with the defense that he was merely “exercising his right to the First Amendment” when he called Hanisch and sent Hanisch to tell us at Disclosure that Henby was about to be arrested and charged.
White’s camp presented that argument. Then Chuckles took the floor, and advised that while the First Amendment’s all well and good (he’s the one who tried to strip us of ours, remember…so he was treading lightly), there was just one little codicil in this: The warrant hadn’t been served when White called Hanisch, and even when Hanisch called us about it, and told us that ISP was wanting us to publish it.
And the air, our correspondent reported to us, was audibly sucked from Rick White’s lungs when Roberts dropped that little factoid in there.
Roberts went on.
“If a state’s attorney did that,” he said mildly, “he’d be in Springfield answering to an ARDC complaint.”
Weber gave this some thought, then leaned over the bench.
“Hypothetically,” the judge said, “I could see a case where I don’t like my neighbor, and I intend to cause problems for him. So I call the local paper, and have them print something negative about him.” He looked right at White. “That,” Weber said, “would fall under stalking. It would intimidate me if I were that neighbor, knowing someone did that.”
And it appeared the enormity of what White had done—and this is undisputed, as Hanisch has already submitted his statement to the February 2011 for all parties involved, and has actually been reprimanded by ISP for calling us…but Rick White of course never gets reprimanded for giving early information to Fairfield’s radio station and little newspaper—kind of hit him like a ton of bricks at that point, and the air whooshed out of him again. Because it appears that’s what he’s done: He let slip that info about the warrant prematurely, for no purpose other than to hassle Henby, who had been investigating, through the agency he worked for, the fraudulent claim of child molestation against another ISP retiree, Jim Hinkle, in Wayne County.
Weber has taken the case under advisement and it’s thought that he’ll return a decision in 30 days. If he determines that White has actually been stalking Henby, that opens up a whole new can of worms for the pissy little man who’s been navigating topix.com and enlisting the aid of other community losers like arsonist Roy Finley (his cousin) and a small handful of others whom we’ve only just last month identified, and attempting to disparage us and our paper with some of the most vile filth possible as well as putting himself forward as someone else (which is illegal; when we get all the documentation on that, it’s going to blow sky-high and it’s going to take several, both public and private individuals, down with it, from locations between Saline County all the way up to Cook, and lots in between). And all because he’s got a hard-on for his former supervisors who have shown him to be what he is: a lazy “investigator” whose only motivation stems from the desire to harm those whom he’s perceived have wronged him in some way.
In addition to the horror White has wrought upon Henby and Hinkle, he’s now also under investigation for perjury (which is why you’re getting spoon-fed all the wondrous Rick White crime solving tales lately from Wayne County media, who follow him around like a lovesick teenage boy….so they can divert and distract from the truth) in Richland, this for allegedly lying on the stand during the very first minutes of questioning at Henby’s initial OP hearing. You can read all about that at this link. ISP has reportedly refused to turn over material under subpoena request on that issue, too…which explains, perhaps, the increasing presence of DII and now the AG at the ongoing hearings.
There will of course be more in the July/August issue, on stands July 23…be sure and pick that one up, or subscribe to the online e-Edition right now by following this link, so you won’t miss a thing.