Grant Crowell and “Chrissypiss”

Those of you who read the articles on the Daily Herald website may have noticed an alias “Chrissypiss”. The person behind those posts, in case its not obvious, is not affiliated with this blog.

The tactics employed (along with the misspellings of elected officials names) appear to be the work of Grant Crowell.

Mr. Crowell has used tactics that are considered unethical (and some uses of them are actually illegal) in order to obtain information about who is behind this website, so that he can fulfill some hero-fantasy that he has.

Posting as under a pseudonym similar to mine is not the first fraudulent action that Mr Crowell has engaged in. Previously, he created multiple email addresses that were “one-off” from myself and of Village President Bill Sarto.

In communications where he pretended to be Village President Sarto — using email address “ws1114” instead of “wrs1114” — Mr Crowell contacted the husband of a member of the Audit & Finance Commission. In that fraudulent email communication, Mr. Crowell’s IP address was found as the “X-Originating-IP” in the headers of a third email address he used to provide a “gotcha” message to Sarto. Mr. Crowell, posting under his own name, has also republished to other venues the information that he alleges he discovered about the identity of the person behind this blog. All of which is false.

As an added twist to this … the email sent saying “It was just a matter of time before we unmasked your anonymous blogger…”, “He’s committed libel and you’ve supported him” and “You can bet we’ll have an attorney to sue you both”, was signed “Sonia Fueller, Fox Valley Citizens for Legal Immigration”.

Despite being told to cease and desist from any further naming of the innocent resident to whom Mr. Crowell falsely represented himself, he has continued … as he has alluded to even in comments as recently as today.

A few months later, an email exchange employing a similar tactic was sent to resident Paul Calusinski, asking Calusinski to read a statement at the Village Board meeting that was supposed to have come from me. That exchange used an email address of “cvilecan” instead of cvillecan”. Fortunately, that attempt was thwarted before the statement was read to the Board.

Mr. Crowell’s own failed attempts to get the People of Carpentersville and the Village Board to fall down and worship him, his failed attempts to get community involvement and action against the corruption in Village government, and his latest failed attempt to discover the author of this blog all serve as motive.