the cover-up? Instead, his integrity and forthrightness led to a destroyed career and being run out of the state.
“The Civil case was eventually settled for $1.8 million and I was advised to ‘get out of town’ by my powerful lawyer who was representing me in an attempt to take my law license. I was a turncoat — a traitor to the Establishment — and they would be forever after me, if I stayed in Chicago. I took my lawyer’s advice and have been living the life of a country bumpkin ever since.”
Shelly would become an outcast, banished to his South Haven, Michigan small town home, even though the Ramsey Clark Report affirmed Shelly’s assessment of the evidence. The report would show that the Chicago Police, federal judiciary, the United States Department of Justice and other public officials were involved in the planned assassination.
After Shelly wrote his Memoirs, “In the Teeth of the Wind”, he collaborated with decorated Viet

Ramsey Clark - Fmr. U.S. Attorney General, Chairman, of the Commission of Inquiry; Co-author of Search and Destroy.
Shelly Waxman, Asst. U.S. Attorney, Chicago
Nam pilot and writer James Nathan Post. The pair wrote a pulp fiction novelette, entitled “The Black Messiah Murders” and they are developing an expanded novel, conforming it closer to the screenplay and film production.
Epilogue
Eventually, of Waxman’s peers and the superiors to whom he reported that attempted to sustain the cover-up of the government assassinations, one would rise to the Federal Trial Court; one to the 7th Circuit, a court of last resort, and others would appointed to high ranking influential positions of power.
They, and many involved in related crimes by governments officials would be sheltered by the state and federal courts until they could no longer be prosecuted for their crimes under the statute of limitations.
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