Yes, it’s the Read the Lead you’ve been waiting for.
The front page lead story this month has to do with a man from Harrisburg now living in Marion who is by turns reviled and adored, depending on who you’re talking to and what stage in the election cycle is going on.
That man is State Representative John E. Bradley, Democrat representative from Illinois’ 117th District. He’s been in office for more than a decade, and has during that time touted himself as a family man, devoted father and loving husband. Unfortunately, he’s touting that with a new wife as of last year, after he unceremoniously dumped the first one in 2011.
Resultant of that unceremonious dumping, a bitter divorce and custody issue erupted. and resultant of that bitter issue…well, it’s been reported to us that a complaint has been filed with the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC). Whether this is a valid report or not remains unknown at this time, but it’s the subject of your noontime Read the Lead, Is state rep facing his own ARDC complaint?
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John E. Bradley
WILLIAMSON CO.—The recent revelation of an existing Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) complaint against a Marion attorney has brought forth information about that attorney’s brother.
And it’s not just any brother.
The recent ARDC complaint focused on Josh Bradley—and the information coming from publication of that complaint in the May-June edition of Disclosure—pertains to none other than Harrisburg native/Marion attorney/state representative John E. Bradley.
And while the state’s ARDC office has advised they cannot confirm the existence of a complaint against Rep. Bradley, 43 and an 11-year member of the Illinois legislature, paperwork viewed by Disclosure following the presentation of the article citing his brother’s complaint seems to show that one has been made…and it’s based on alleged actions John Bradley took during the pendency of his recent divorce.
The divorce, while final, had questionable beginnings, being filed in Hardin County, a county that 1, neither party resided in, and 2, has never been connected to the state’s online court documents service, judici…prompting many to immediately opine that this was done deliberately so as to prevent public awareness of the situation.
Since that filing, the divorce file has been booted around to as many as possibly four counties within the First and Second judicial circuits, apparently in an effort to keep the contents from being discovered and scrutinized.
The Bradley divorce, however, is not the only one with questionable circumstances surrounding it; Williamson County court documents on Bradley’s current wife, Michelle Moore, 43, also are curious where it comes to the manner and method deployed in order to get a judge’s signature on the dotted line….
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To read the rest of this investigative report, to which there’ll be a follow up in the upcoming August-September issue on stands in JUST A FEW DAYS, click the headline link above the excerpt if you have an online membership to the e-Edition; or, if you don’t, it’s just a few mouse clicks away; simply hit this link here to get started! Or, if you prefer to hold a newspaper in your hands, visit any one of our vendors throughout southern Illinois, including in Saline County (ROC One-Stop in Harrisburg, Eldorado, Carrier Mills and Galatia, as well as Harrisburg vendors Discount Food Mart, Book Emporium and M&H Liquors, and Raleigh Quick Mart in Raleigh); Hardin County (Harbison’s at Karber’s Ridge and ROC One-Stop in Rosiclare); Williamson County (ROC One-Stop and Hunter’s Cove Barber Shop on West DeYoung and Pit Road Racing on the Square, all in Marion; and ROC One-Stop in Johnston City) and Franklin County (ROC One-Stop in West Frankfort).