Ambrose trial

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Seeking to protect her children, Karen got a restraining order issued by Judge Price Borland against the father. Report 4. Report 5. Report 6. Another 96 hour hold was placed on the children, keeping them from their father.

In January, two of the children were evaluated by a forensic team. Following the evaluation, a Multidisciplinary Task Force recommended the children not go home with the father, finding allegations made by the children credible. Custody of all three children was removed from Ambrose by DCF.

Moving with lightning swiftness, always remembering who paid her fees, GAL Hurwitz had fired all medical providers once Ambrose got temporary custody, leaving only Dr. It is Dr. Robert Horwitz also has his bills paid by Ambrose. Biren-Caverly and Dr. Robert Horowitz, persuaded the Department of Children and Families that the children were fabricating allegations of sexual abuse so they could go back home to their mother.

The children stayed with their father who punished them for reporting his abuse. Karen was now completely in the dark about her children. Ambrose, who kept the children in isolation in a remote rural home, must have breathed easy. His children were captive and he the captor. He won. Ambrose had blocked Karen from all their marital assets, failed to pay bills submitted by Karen and withdrew undisclosed sums of money at his sole discretion.

He spent well over six figures on his lawyer, the GAL, and custody evaluator, while Karen did not have funds to pay for a lawyer. Instead the trial started with criticism that Karen failed to comply with discovery, which was inaccurate. Karen was the party who requested discovery.

GAL Hurwitz wanted to attend every day of the trial. It is rare for a GAL to attend every day of a divorce case. If this family was poor it would not be requested, but Ambrose was not poor. Karen objected to this expenditure, thinking that money paid to the GAL was half hers, even though Ambrose controlled it.

If she missed anything of significance she had access to the transcripts and could bill for reading them. Judge Adelman proceeded to trial, without a thought about why Karen should not see her children or have access to any marital funds.

Ambrose blocked access to marital funds, failed to comply with production, failed to honor support payments and isolated the children from their mother, their family and friends they had been bonded with, and known all their lives.

Adelman denied the mother contact with her children despite the fact that there was no petition by the State, no action by child protective services against the mother, no professional medical judgment before the court that required isolation.

The isolation has gone on for more than days. Judge Adelman ignored evidence of educational neglect, emotional abuse, medical neglect and sexual assault of the children. Ambrose wanted to know who Karen was talking to in the media.

Judge Adelman then admitted phone records of two persons not joined in the suit, the evidence having nothing to do with a marriage dissolution action and normally would not be admissible, except in his capricious court. Then Judge Adelman issued a gag order on Karen, in his attempt to thwart public interest in the case, making the mother responsible to the court for the conduct of third parties in the media.

He clearly did not want scrutiny of this case. He next ordered her to sign joint tax returns prepared by Ambrose, though she had no way of determining their authenticity, since she had no access to the marital assets or how Ambrose spent the money or earn investment income from it.

Karen refused to sign tax returns she could not verify if they were accurate. The information concerned the whereabouts and the cooperation of mobster-turned-informant Nick Calabrese.

Ambrose had been assigned to protect Calabrese as he prepared to testify in the Family Secrets mob murder trial. After the verdict, Ambrose and his wife embraced, the street-hardened deputy unable to fight back tears. Even though he was acquitted of lying to federal agents - a direct shot at U.

We do believe some errors were made along the way. We believe they were substantial errors," said Frank Lipuma, Ambrose attorney. Notably absent from Tuesday's post verdict new conference was the U. Marshal service that is responsibly for protecting thousands of government witnesses. In this case there was no known attempt to kill witness Nick Calabrese.

But as word of the breach got out, some witnesses in the protection program refused to come to Chicago if they were to be guarded by the marshal service. So integrity may have been damaged. Ambrose will appeal, largely on the basis of an FBI undercover tape that was shown to the jury twice and then withdrawn as evidence.