wow, just wow, this is too frightening, and to know that they have done this before, I'm glad you are keeping your guard up... I would say sue the pants off them, but that would just put you back on their radar, and considering how well you were treated for just being in their way, I suppose this probably wouldn't be good at all. The only other thing I can suggest is asking your lawyer (your second one, as he is clearly on the up and up)if it would be worth trying to contact other victims via confidential but official methods like the US mail and try to compile a list of statements, and complaints as well as document any evidence to support the claims. if your lawer says the offences and evidence are enough, go to the media first, find an investigative reporter from one of the bigger citys who has already made a name for themselves revealing corruption of this kind, make your case to them, then ask them to accompany you cameras and all when you approach the state's attorny or the FBI to file your charges, so they can't quietly sweep this under the rug without their constituents or upper management wondering why. let them be the heros or the villans, but make them do it in the glare of the public eye, so they cannot just remain quietly neutral... It's the way they do it here in the city of wind, and while it's messy it seems to work in the long haul...

please understand, these are mearly suggestions of ways to proceed, me throwing ideas against the wall and hoping one will stick... I cannot begin to judge the danger to you or your family, because I am not in your situation. and I am certainly not trying to judge you, though it may have come off that way... the only thing I know for sure is that you have done any and everything in your power to protect your children and family, even when it went against the grian, that's what a mama lion does... you know what's right for them, and that's all that matters... I wish you luck and justice.

Jen