Terrie Eichorn
SALINE/POPE CO., Ill. - One of the two women hemmed up in the huge Anna Bixby Women's Center mess a year and a half ago is scheduled to be in court this afternoon on something peripherally related.
Terrie Eichorn, 51, of rural Elizabethtown in Hardin County, has a 1 p.m. hearing on a petition to revoke her bond in the Saline County case against her regarding ABWC, which you can read about at the headlines provided at this link.
Eichorn, says the special prosecutor in the ABWC case, violated the terms of her bond when she was the recipient of a DUI in Pope County, back in mid-July.
From the fishing trip
Eichorn was never arrested on her multi-felony set of charges in Saline, instead being on vacation in Florida when the charges were announced in late March 2015; she was simply allowed to come on up to the cop shop in Harrisburg when she got back from her fishing trips and shopping excursions and posted $50,000 cash bond to ensure her continued freedom.
We here at Disclosure speculated that the $50k was taxpayer money, as the charges at the ABWC are based on illicit expenditures of grants and other funds taken from we the taxpayers on the state and federal level and used to prop up operations of the women's center (which is now effectively defunct, as an upcoming article in the print edition will show).
Apparently, the prosecutor in the Saline County case, Jonas Harger from Illinois Attorney General's Office, thinks the taxpayers need their money back, and so he filed a petition to revoke based on bond violation last week. While out on that $50k bond, Eichorn was to not get into any trouble; so the argument's being made that she did indeed get into trouble in Pope, this after the July 16 DUI, along with two traffic tickets for Improper Lane Usage and No Valid Registration, were issued to her. She's had an arraignment reset twice in the Pope case, which may show the kind of favoritism that's being displayed in both Eichorn's and her mother Barb Wingo's cases, since they have "helped women" since the late 70s with the taxpayer-funded ABWC and apparently some public officials believe they should be treated accordingly (never mind that it's been alleged they've been filching the taxpayers' funds for years).
Kyle Eichorn is shown in a photo from his Facebook page, where he has complained mightily about the pain he’s in…but according to Saline County officials, he was feeling no pain when he crashed his vehicle head-on into a coal truck in the very early morning of Saturday, November 29, 2014, as they allege he had a combination of drugs, alcohol and pot in his system at the time of the crash, this following a night of partying…probably on the road, and endangering others all night long.
Eichorn is a chronic drunk; her drunk Facebook posts are legendary, however, she continues to insist that she doesn't have a problem, which translates to the occasional allegation of driving drunk, something that's not such an amusing prospect as drunk Facebook posts. Her only kid, Kyle Eichorn, nearly killed himself and another kid about two years ago in a car crash outlined at this link.
Eichorn doesn't have a lot of support where any endeavor would be made to quell the drinking; her husband, former Hardin County board president Wayne Eichorn, is also a noted chronic drunk, with his favorite perch being the barstools at E-town's two watering holes. Where Terrie Eichorn had been prior to the July 16 traffic stop is unknown at this juncture, but her mother Wingo had a residence in Golconda at one point in the mess, so it might've had something to do with that.
If Eichorn's bond is revoked, the $50k cash goes to the Saline County taxpayers and Eichorn goes to jail until the outcome of her Saline case, which has been dragging through the court system since early 2015 thanks to the efforts of Franklin County attorney Bryan Drew.
Drew is a good one at getting people out of DUIs, but online records out of Pope don't show that she has him working for her on her Pope case, only on the Saline one.
If convicted of even a portion of the theft/fraud/abuse/misappropriation of funds charges in Saline, Eichorn could spend a considerable amount of time in prison.
We'll have a follow up when we learn the outcome of today's hearing. Be watching.