Conspiracy to control state politics uncovered in southern counties

SALINE CO.— The tale of exactly how a lowly prison janitor was plucked out of his broom closet to become a bank executive and ultimately a candidate for state senate is actually not as unusual as some may think.

The particulars of how Harrisburg Mayor Dale Fowler, now candidate for the 59th Senate District, got to where he is shines a new light on and offers a fresh meaning to the old saying, “The Devil is in the details.”

Political insiders, unaware of the other’s actions, have spent countless hours connecting the dots of Fowler’s shady backers only to have what they describe as a grotesque picture come into focus here in the eleventh hour in an election process which could catapult Fowler into a seat of power in the halls of state government.

And while some of these dot-connectors are members of his own party and critics of this publication, the sources have come together and reached out to Disclosure, saying they could not get any other media to pay attention to what they have found.

“We knew that Disclosure would look at our evidence and if it were solid enough would report our findings and let voters decide for themselves if the discoveries should be taken into consideration at the ballot box,” said a spokesperson for the group under a condition of anonymity.

What the political insiders didn’t realize is how their collective dots, combined with dots uncovered by Disclosure and other independent investigators, paint an even more insidious picture of the state of politics in southern Illinois.

Oval office overtones

These sources have documented that several years ago Fowler was holding down a job working out of the area as a janitor for the department of corrections.

Not happy to be working away from home, Fowler voiced his displeasure to a fellow department of corrections worker (who will remain anonymous for now) who pointed him in the direction of none other than Robert Wilson.

Wilson is a well-known Saline County attorney, accountant, former Harrisburg mayor, good friend of disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, architect of uncounted behind-the-scenes dealings in the state and a man who is regularly asked to have formal chats with agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI).

Wilson was Blagojevich’s downstate go-to-guy when, as governor, Blagojevich needed something done.

In fact Wilson freely admitted that the privacy fence currently surrounding his Poplar Street home was put in place so Blagojevich and his wife Patty, along with their cohorts, could come and go freely without drawing attention.

Many believe that when attorney general Lisa Madigan began investigating Blagojevich in earnest, Blago moved many of his meetings to Wilson’s Harrisburg home.

Blagojevich was convicted August 17, 2010 of lying to agents of the FBI.

The next year, on June 27, 2011, Blagojevich was convicted on 17 of 20 federal counts pertaining to attempts to sell the senate seat of then President-elect Barack Obama, as well as on charges of extortion relating to state funds illegally being directed towards a children’s hospital and a race track.

Blagojevich was ultimately sentenced to 14 years in federal prison and is eligible for parole in 2024.

For years Obama, along with then-political hopeful Rahm Emanuel and political operative David Axelrod, backed any and all of Blagojevich’s political aspirations giving speeches on his behalf as well as sponsoring and attending fundraising events.

Emanuel would eventually go on to become mayor of Chicago and Axelrod would eventually run Obama’s re-election campaigns and go on to become a talking head for FOX News.

Dealing with the devil

Since the Blagojevich fall from political grace, Wilson has been scrambling to put together a semblance of the powerhouse of players that he enjoyed having influence with when he had the ear of the former governor, and those who ran in his circle before running from him including President Obama, Axelrod and Emanuel.

As part of his rebuilding efforts, Wilson routinely pulled what few strings he still had to do favors for people who would then in turn owe him when he needed a favor.

So when Dale Fowler had his powwow with Robert Wilson, Fowler was offered a deal.

“Robert [Wilson] told him he could pull strings to get him a lateral move within the department of corrections to IYC (Illinois Youth Center) in Harrisburg,” said a Fowler insider, who claimed to get the information directly from Fowler himself. “But Robert made it very clear that Dale would owe him and would be expected to pay what he owed without question when the time came.”

When asked if Dale had any idea what it was he would be expected to “pay” the source said “No.”

“Dale was just happy to get to work close to home,” the source said. “He didn’t have any idea what he would be asked to do. Kind of like one of those old movies where someone makes a deal with some greasy guy they didn’t know was the Devil only to find out the deal cost them their soul.”

From mop-man to charitable bank exec

One of the numerous angles Wilson is said to have been working at the time was to strengthen his ties with one of the area bankers identified as Frank William Bonan, II, also known as “Little Bill.”

Sources say that Wilson weaseled his way into being not only Little Bill’s attorney, but his accountant as well.

It is widely believed that Wilson was instrumental in the birth of the Bonan/Fowler Foundation, which created a charitable organization to raise money for underprivileged children.

Wilson’s influence with Bonan was further noted when Fowler suddenly rose from IYC janitor to People’s National Bank executive as a Business Development Officer.

It was at about that time Wilson used yet another of his political chits when he called in Blagojevich’s lieutenant governor Pat Quinn.

With Blagojevich out of the governor’s mansion and on his way to federal prison Quinn, as lieutenant governor, took his place, and was apparently expected to pay some of the Blagojevich debt to Wilson for his years of loyal service.

Quinn subsequently announced the selection of Harrisburg Mayor Eric Gregg to be on the state prisoner review board.

Gregg is another of Wilson’s creations from years ago.

Gregg illegally held both the prison review board position and the position as mayor until Disclosure informed Springfield authorities, who then forced Gregg to resign.

The problem with Gregg’s forced ouster was that Fowler wasn’t ready for his next payment (or step up in his service) to Robert Wilson.

From mop-man to charitable bank exec to councilman

But Robert Wilson was not to be thwarted so easily and merely pivoted and moved forward.

Eric Gregg, as ordered by Wilson, resigned in 2013 (instead of facing charges for holding both positions at the same time) and councilman Ron Crank, as finance commissioner, automatically ascended to the mayoral seat.

“Why would Robert order such a move?” one insider asked rhetorically. “So Dale Fowler could be tapped to fill the council seat left vacant when Ron became mayor.”

And that’s exactly what happened.

Once Gregg was out of office and Crank was sworn in as the new Harrisburg mayor, Fowler came out of nowhere and, after a motion made by councilman Ron Fearheiley and seconded by councilman John McPeek, was appointed to the council.

A more insidious rumor later surfaced surrounding the Wilson/Gregg move that elevated Crank to mayor paving the way for Fowler.

Everybody on the city council, as did many in the public, knew that Crank had been diagnosed as terminal with cancer.

Crank served as mayor as best he could given his rapidly deteriorating health.

Toward the end of his fight with cancer, Crank was not able to attend a number meetings and Fearheily, who ascended to the position as finance commissioner when Crank became mayor, served as mayor pro-tem to conduct those meetings.

From mop-man to charitable bank exec to councilman to mayor

Embarrassingly, during the entire time Crank was mayor and through the rest of his term, People’s National Bank had numerous large green signs on major thoroughfares throughout the city proclaiming: “Another project financed by Peoples National Bank Dale Fowler” and a phone number for the bank.

When Ron Crank succumbed to cancer in August 2014, Fearheiley finished out the unexpired term left vacant in the wake of Crank’s death.

The ugly rumor was that Wilson, Bonan and Fowler were counting on Crank losing his battle with cancer and that’s why, even before his death, they started pushing Fowler for mayor.

“They knew then they had no intention of stopping there,” said a Bonan associate who was later booted from the inner circle.

Given what appeared to be plenty of prep-time and more than a year of signs popping up all over town crediting Fowler with bringing to town the businesses Peoples National Bank made loans to, Fowler, in what appeared to outsiders as his own little political Cinderella story, was elected mayor in April of 2015.

Of interest is that not only did Fowler run unopposed for mayor, but the only backers he had for that campaign were himself and the Bonans.

But the train was never intended to stop there.

Chess Club scheme exposed 

Once Fowler moved from a sideline position as a bottom of the rung councilman into the center seat as mayor, the combine of Wilson, Bonan, Fowler and friends appear to have become emboldened.

Sources indicate that Bonan and Wilson put together the idea of a gentlemen’s club to be housed on the top floor of the Clearwave Building in downtown Harrisburg.

The club offered $5,000 memberships to area politicos and powerbrokers.

It was billed as a place movers and shakers could go to knock back a few drinks and cut loose out of the public eye.

Insiders say the offering of memberships to area politicians, business people and those who saw themselves as the elite was merely a cover for the greater purpose of the club.

“There were the regular members and then there were the ‘special’ members,” said a former limo driver.

The ultimate intent for the club was for politicians and their operatives, the likes of Blagojevich, Obama, Emanuel and Axelrod, to have a place out of the limelight of Chicago and Springfield to go and broker their secret/back room deals.

“It would serve as a location for these folks to bring their political buddies, treat them to anything they wanted, with no questions asked,” said one of the original planners, who claims to be working with federal investigators.

It didn’t take long before stories of prostitution (including the involvement of both male and female minors), drug sales and use and several reports of a sex room surfaced.

Despite the growing number of reports getting out, Fowler was ordered to push for the Chess Club liquor license.

Being the good political soldier that he is, that’s exactly what Fowler did and is even on the books as hand-delivering the liquor license to none other than his banking/charity buddy/boss at the bank, Little Bill Bonan.

Fowler frequently spent time at the club, entertaining businessmen he wanted to impress, those he was seeking support for his campaign from (which is illegal) and even routinely, according to yet-to-be-named council members, has held meetings at the Chess Club with nearly every one of those council members.

Moving pieces on the political chess board

Many scratched their heads while others figured it was just politics as usual and thought nothing of it when Robert Wilson’s niece Molly Dearing announced that she would be running on the Republican ticket for the job of Saline County State’s Attorney against incumbent state’s attorney, retired judge Mike Henshaw.

Those familiar with the behind-the-scenes of politics in the area know that Wilson has much more than an unhealthy hatred for Henshaw.

Wilson has considered Henshaw his archenemy ever since Henshaw refused to support Wilson’s questionable practices when the two were in a law partnership together years ago.

Henshaw eventually left the practice.

The first oddity, which even the politically unwashed noticed, was that not only has Wilson been a lifelong Democrat but so has Molly Dearing and her parents.

Although the Republicans welcomed what at first appeared to be a candidate that might have a chance of unseating an incumbent, they have remained wary – and for good reason.

At about the same time Molly announced she would be running for office, so did a little-known Eldorado pharmacist and local school board president, Jason Kasiar.

Kasiar announced that he would be running on the Republican ticket to unseat 118th District State Representative Brandon Phelps.

 

Drug deal with pharmacist

While most understood that Molly [Wilson] Dearing was a Wilson prior to her marriage to Dan Dearing, and thus her connection with uncle Robert Wilson, few understood the connection between Jason Kasiar and Robert Wilson.

That connection has been identified as 110th District Republican State Representative Reggie Phillips.

Because Robert Wilson controlled Gregg, who resigned and tapped Crank to replace him, creating the vacancy Fowler was waiting in the wings to fill, thus ascending to the mayoral seat, Wilson ordered Fowler to create sweetheart deals for Phillips, who owned the Villas of Hollybrook and Reflections and Memory Care assisted living facility, located on Rte. 13 Bypass, west of the city.

Fowler, who according to several yet-to-be named members of the city council is constantly using city funds for his pet projects, got right to work on those sweetheart deals and deployed city resources, including city equipment and city workers, to do the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of work to prepare the site for construction of Phillips’ assisted living complex.

Phillips owns several of the exclusive living facilities throughout southern Illinois.

And with Phillips, via Fowler, via Wilson, getting the taxpayer to foot the bill for the site-prep for another of his assisted living facilities — Wilson’s take-away from the deal was that Phillips guaranteed all prescription medication and medical supply contracts, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, would be given exclusively to Beck’s Pharmacy, thus ensuring Kasiar’s run against Forby and Kasiar’s obedience to the Wilson plan.

“Kasiar is not running for office because he’s concerned about the voters,” said one source. “He’s running first for the money his family pharmacy will gain and then, for stroking his own ego.”

Inside leak becomes a flood

When Disclosure broke the story of the Chess Club, and began interviewing former members, waiters, limo drivers and even one drug supplier, it sent a ripple through the Wilson-Bonan-Fowler camp.

The trio and numerous ones of their insiders, whose names were not known at that time but will be released in subsequent reports, began a cover-up campaign designed to make it appear as if the stories of cocaine use and sex parties were fabricated by disgruntled employees.

Before the cover-up and the claims of “you know that’s not true” could gain momentum, the Chess Club crew had lied to or fired enough people involved with the club and caused enough marital breakups that investigators had their pick of informants to choose from and began to get a foothold in building multiple criminal cases.

When Fowler’s connection to the club was documented and published by Disclosure, Bonan is said to have thrown a “massive fit,” leading to another alleged trip south ending in another alleged trip to rehab for a nasal problem.

At one point Bonan suggested to Fowler that they have nothing to do with one another until after the election in November.

Fowler is said to have had a mini-freak-out of his own, knowing that it was Bonan’s money that was funding his senate campaign.

Both freak-outs endangered Robert Wilson’s apple cart and so Wilson brokered a happy medium which included Bonan continuing to support Fowler financially, but with the understanding that he would not appear publicly with the senatorial candidate.

Married candidates have adulterous affair

But the calm didn’t last long.

It is unclear just when and where Molly Wilson-Dearing and Jason Kasiar connected — but they did.

Some say the pair found each other during one of the wife-swapping parties held at the Chess Club.

There are indications that Molly and Dan Dearing were members of the Chess Club as was Kasiar.

There are no reports that Kasiar’s wife Kristi, ever stepped foot inside the Chess Club.

“That’s where a lot of political folks met to plan their campaigns,” said one of the bartenders, “and to cut loose.”

For several months Kasiar and Molly Wilson-Dearing were spotted and even photographed on numerous occasions groping each other at area restaurants.

Despite carrying on their adulterous affair openly in public, both Kasiar (married with children) and Molly Wilson-Dearing (a married mother of three) lead the cover-up telling anyone who would listen that “it’s just a lie being made up by Disclosure.”

After the story broke of Kasiar and Molly having an explicit text conversation about their sexual exploits, not realizing Kristi Kasiar had his iWatch and was reading the texts right along with them, Robert Wilson called a meeting and informed Kasiar and Molly that they needed to cool it and ordered that there would be no divorce proceedings until after the election in November.

Despite Kasiar telling Robert Wilson that he had his wife under control, Mrs. Kasiar filed for divorce and had Jason served on Friday, May 13.

Kasiar and Molly Wilson-Dearing then began having surreptitious meetings including late nights at a rural location in a barn near Little Chapel Church.

Disclosure has obtained some of the texts between Kasiar and Molly that Kristi Kasiar intercepted and has had their authenticity verified.

 Robert’s disaster

And in the final stretch of the election season, Fowler is running around spending Bonan money like it is literally growing on trees, saying whatever he feels he has to in order to make this his latest payment to Robert Wilson who, with Bonan’s help, brought Fowler out of the janitor’s closet and onto the political stage in a couple of years.

Kristi Kasiar has moved out of the marital home after being brutalized every time her husband was caught with his hand up Molly Wilson-Dearing’s dress in a restaurant, but not before copying texts and pictures off of her husband’s phone and iWatch.

Jason Kasiar has a history of extramarital affairs, including one out of which a possible lawsuit might be developing: he is accused of handing one of his former girlfriend’s children prescription medication straight from the pharmacy.

The incident came to light when the child had some kind of reaction to the medication while at school and the child’s father had to be called.

Kasiar narrowly escaped felony criminal charges after he grabbed his wife’s phone to delete texts and pictures off of it (unaware that she had already transferred them off the phone) and wouldn’t give it back, took her dog and deposited it at an area vet ordering them not to return the pet to her and for selling her car when it wasn’t even in his name.

Molly Wilson-Dearing has been busy all summer informing area residents that she will be marrying Jason Kasiar after the election—not realizing Kasiar has already taken up with at least one other woman and has no intention of marrying anybody.

A southern Illinois coup d’etat

In an attempt to try and keep the lid on what’s left of his disastrous political plans for a southern Illinois coup d’etat and despite thousands of dollars spent, for example, on a crane used to turn the top of the Clearwave Building into an outdoor, high-rise party spot for special members, Wilson ordered the closing of the Chess Club several months ago.

The closing was only a ruse and meant to last only until after the election.

At least that’s the hope.

Pieces were moved around the game board and favors were called in from the real estate community, including one yet-to-be named agent in White County, currently under investigation by the FBI, in an attempt to show that Bonan, and thus Fowler, has little or nothing to do with the city-sponsored brothel and drug den.

“The club appears to be not just part of a scheme to win political favor, but to increase and keep it,” one agent told Disclosure on condition of anonymity.

According to the agent, state-of-the-art security systems have been installed in the building.

“There have also been miles of fiber-optics run in the building,” the agent said. “There could be only two reasons for that kind of investment in nearly instantaneous internet speed: a) to take large sums of money and gamble with it in other countries’ stock markets at lightning speed thus having an edge, then pocketing the cash and returning the original amount before banks open the next day; and/or b) to have full video and audio recordings of everything that happens within that building in order to use that information for purposes of blackmail.”

What’s to gain and what’s to lose

It is the information provided by the agent that tied together the final pieces of Robert Wilson’s latest political stunt… one some say would have changed the face of arguably not only state politics into and beyond the foreseeable future but possibly have a powerful role on the national stage as well.

“After all,” the agent said. “Our sitting president rose to power out of the state of Illinois.”

The need for Wilson to be able to control local and state elected positions were broken down as follows:

Harrisburg mayor and city council controls liquor licenses, untold amounts of contracts and development opportunity and probably most importantly hold hiring and firing reins when it comes to personnel and appointing a police chief; they are in a position to dictate what the local police will and won’t do, and will and won’t investigate.

Mayor Fowler, FACT: used his position and bank connections to gain notoriety for a planned bid for state senate. Pushed for and hand-delivered liquor license to gentlemen’s club under investigation on numerous levels. That same club and Fowler’s senate campaign are backed by his bank boss and charity buddy, Little Bill Bonan.

Finance Commissioner John McPeek, FACT: seconded the motion to pave the way for Fowler to be appointed to the board. Currently votes in favor of any project Fowler suggests even without knowing a cost. Would automatically, as finance commissioner, become mayor if Fowler is elected to senate.

Public Property Commissioner Richard Harper, FACT: furious over February 2016 Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol arrest. Has vowed to get back at police, especially Chief James “Whipper” Johnson. Robert Wilson is shown on jail video camera bonding Harper out of jail the night he was arrested. DUI later dismissed. If Fowler gets elected to senate, Harper would move up into finance commissioner slot when current finance commissioner McPeek automatically moved into mayoral seat. Harper owes Wilson.

Street and Alley Commissioner, Natalie Miller, FACT: convicted of cocaine offense several years ago was, under dubious circumstances, removed as public health and safety/police commissioner. Joins McPeek in voting in favor of Fowler projects without asking for or knowing total cost of project. Has voiced intention of running for mayor. Unofficial sources say she is connected to Wilson.

Public Health and Safety/Police Commissioner, Beth Montfort, FACT: Has lead the charge to take operational control out of the hands of the city police chief and into the hands of an administrator.

With the mayor in his pocket Wilson would only need two of the four council members to do his bidding in order to operate the city by proxy— facts show he has two and possibly a third, with Miller blindly going along with Fowler and McPeek.

State’s attorney office, FACT: A sitting state’s attorney has sole discretion on what criminal charges are filed as well as which ones are not filed and, by law, there is NOBODY who can trump that decision. If Molly Wilson-Dearing becomes state’s attorney, any investigation into the Chess Club would come to a halt because there would be nobody to charge the offenses. FBI officials have confirmed they will not come into an area in which a prosecutor is unwilling to work with them. The atrocities allegedly taking place within the Chess Club would undoubtedly grow in number and severity. Molly Wilson-Dearing owes uncle Robert.

State representative, FACT: If Jason Kasiar becomes state representative he will be in position to/ordered to direct hundreds of thousands of state taxpayer dollars in whatever direction he deems worthy. He would be in position to/ordered to propose new legislation as well as be ordered how to vote on legislation proposed by others. He could be groomed to become senator. Kasiar owes Robert Wilson for Phillips’ promised lucrative pharmaceutical contracts.

State senator, FACT: If Fowler wins his bid for senate he will be under direct control of Wilson and be in the same position to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to further Wilson’s political coup. And as with the current President of the United States, he could be groomed for a run for the White House.

Voters in Saline County, in the 59th Senate District, and in the 118th Legislative District are urged to be very, very cautious when casting their ballots, and ensure that they don’t put downstate Illinois in a more precarious situation than it’s already in. In fact, given the scope of the material found in this article, a poorly-thought-out vote or set of votes could very well have a direct impact on state and national politics in the future.