When Chester Wilk was a kid growing up in the city, a Polish fortuneteller once told him he would become “very famous” pursuing a cause.
“Mrs. Budek,” as the young Chester knew her, turned out to be right. That fame came many years later, during an epic legal battle against one of the nation’s most powerful medical organizations — a fight in which one of his allies was a secret source who went by the name “Sore Throat.”
