May 6, 2010 Article by Joseph Fosco | 44 comments

Mr. Joseph L. Giacchino, Jr. – Your Request To Reinstate Your Livelihood Is Denied!

On May 4, 2010, Mr. Joseph L. Giacchino, Jr. had his high-powered lawyer, former Cook County Chancery Judge Joseph Casciato, and other attorneys appear in a Chancery Court Room at the Daley Center in hopes of convincing Chancery Judge Leroy Martin, Jr. (son of former Superintendant of Chicago Police) to temporarily reinstate Giacchino’s suspended Illinois medical license. It was a spectacular failure. According to a source, Giacchino’s legal team was nearly thrown out of the courtroom. The whole instance was colored in a humorous light because Giacchino’s attorneys purportedly walked into the courtroom as if they were O.J. Simpson’s Dream Team. Unfortunately for Giacchino, this Dream Team was a total nightmare.

It probably did not help that former Judge Joseph Casciato is a major crony of Chicago Outfit Boss John “No Nose” DiFronzo.

In an earlier hearing that day at the Illinois Building, the Illinois Department of Professional Regulations held their first prosecution hearing against Giacchino. The state will be calling nearly 20 prosecution witnesses to prove their case against Dr. Feelgood. I am unsure of the number of defense witnesses that might be called by Giacchino’s lawyers. The hearings are expected to last for one or two weeks.

If my memory serves me correctly, the Illinois Department of Professional Regulations relied on roughly a third of the number of the current prosecution witnesses when they yanked Giacchino’s medical license the last time.

KTF Media Group will soon be in possession of the transcripts of the public hearings on the Giacchino matter. We will publish the transcripts of Giacchino’s hearings in toto.

Some have accused both me and KTF Media Group of causing all these troubles for Giacchino. These sad, misguided people think I actually have the power to initialize a state-run investigation on a perfectly legitimate medical doctor. Neither I nor KTF Media Group is responsible for the mad doctor’s abrupt demise. The transcripts will reveal the multifaceted details of Giacchino’s deadly infractions, which encompass a slew of victims aside from myself. I can only report the truth of my experiences and give others a platform from which they may also speak. It is only in this small way that I can, and do, take any credit for exposing the terrible transgressions of this Pusher M.D.

Giacchino is being prosecuted for the following violations:
(1)Issuing numerous controlled substances to patients of his practice without therapeutic purposes
(2) Engaging in immoral conduct with the patient of his practice
(3) Pre-dating prescriptions.

I believe the first item is clear enough for everyone to understand. The second item is of such a wide range I think we will only know the true depths of it after the victims’ testimony has been heard. The third item means that Giacchino allegedly wrote prescriptions to patients without conducting the proper medical examination.

I know that many patients have argued on KTF message threads that Giacchino always followed the correct procedure with them. I have no reason to doubt these assertions. He could not have been breaking the law with every single one of his clients all the time; otherwise he certainly would have been caught up in this very snare years ago (though, actually he was!). From the sheer number of prosecution witnesses it seems reasonable that Giacchino failed to follow proper procedure on more than one occasion.

Let us pray that our U.S. Attorney in Chicago addresses the purported tax and insurance fraud matters concerning Giacchino’s highly questionable business and personal dealings. Putting Giacchino out of business must simply be the appetizer to a splendid main course of a healthy portion of prison time. A drug pusher wearing a doctor’s mask betraying the public’s trust deserves to be on a vacation from society.

Perhaps if Giacchino is imprisoned in the days ahead, he will become chummy with someone named Bubba. I hope Giacchino will remember how to dance because prison life will likely bring out his feminine side and he will win points with Bubba if he could gyrate his hips like a pole dancer.

Now for Giacchino’s patients.

Those of you that are in need of a new doctor’s office because of Mr. Joseph L. Giacchino’s self-destruction as a physician, I would advise patients in the Melrose Park and River Grove, Illinois, area to contact Loyola Hospitals Physician Referral Center at (708) 216-9000. In my opinion, Loyola Hospital contributed to creating the monster in Mr. Giacchino in the early 1980’s when Loyola Hospital decided to not report a serious crime committed by Giacchino to the proper authorities. A report of Giacchino’s crime might have prevented the danger that he eventually brought to the community. I believe Giacchino’s crime via Loyola Hospital was not reported to the authorities because of the effect it would have on Loyola’s bottom line; therefore, I feel Loyola Hospital deserves the experience of dealing with the recent medical concerns of Giacchino’s now former patients. Yet another major Catholic Hospital blunder.

To think it was merely a few years ago that Giacchino was bribing Illinois State Senator Jimmy DeLeo through one of his Boxing Commission pals to be appointed to the Illinois Medical Disciplinary Board. I suppose Giacchino was a day late and a dollar short.

I wonder how many times Giacchino has punched his walls in agony over the interruption of his finances during the last few days? It is probably not as many times as his victims and their loved ones have punched the walls in fits of sadness and rage. Maybe Giacchino can temper his anger over his current stop in prescription drug-based income by considering all the collateral damage his selfish and dangerous practices have caused.

Let us thank State of Illinois Investigator Dan Murphy for a job well done. We should also not forget all the other state and federal officials that poured their sweat in to the investigation that brought down a doctor more duplicitous than Pablo Escobar. After all, Pablo did not disguise himself as a doctor.

Postscript:
Please be advised that former Judge Joseph Casciato was not the attorney of record on the motion filed before the Honorable Leroy Martin, Jr. Nonetheless, Casciato is certainly one of Giacchino’s attorneys.