Vultures Feast
- The City Council approved a $19.8 million settlement on behalf of four men who claim they were tortured by former police Lt. Jon Burge.
Aaron Patterson, Madison Hobley, Stanley Howard and Leroy Orange were among scores of black suspects who claimed they were kicked, beaten and shocked into confessions in the 1970s and 80s at the Area 2 detective headquarters, which Lt. Burge headed in the 1980s.
Payouts on claims long disputed, never proven and long since relegated to the far side of the statute of limitations.
Claims backed by "evidence" that was manufactured by supposed officers of the court.
Claims by people that continue to have "problems" staying clean, staying on the straight and narrow, avoiding behavior that might have led to their being picked up as likely suspects in the first case almost 30 years ago.
Since they got their payouts, can we never hear about their BS "quest for justice" ever again? Thanks. Channel 5 also covers.
Claims backed by "evidence" that was manufactured by supposed officers of the court.
Claims by people that continue to have "problems" staying clean, staying on the straight and narrow, avoiding behavior that might have led to their being picked up as likely suspects in the first case almost 30 years ago.
Since they got their payouts, can we never hear about their BS "quest for justice" ever again? Thanks. Channel 5 also covers.
Labels: city politics, we got nothing
posted by SCC at 12:52 AM
43 Comments:
As a kid I recall looking out the window as the funeral for the fallen took place at St Dennis Church 83rd St Louis. The Teacher never spoke of it but as class was "under way" I looked out the window of my grammar school class and observed the police funeral..................then the shooting and subsequent funeral again for the officers who attended the original funeral. "I WILL NEVER EVER FUC**IN FO$RGET" It will always live with me. Always remeber this is a human story with a lot of people who hurt.
This will last Flint Taylor, Locke Bowman, Jon Loevy and Cable Guy Avila and the other Leftie ambulance chasers until about May; then more 'serious inquiry' will take place with their 40 Watt Media stooges; and the scam begins anew!
I think we should thank the good people at the People Law Office for their courage in fighting for justice, Flint is my heroe. For 40 years, People’s Law Office has successfully represented victims of the police and other government officials. We have fought for justice for people who have been tortured or physically abused, wrongfully arrested or convicted, unfairly sentenced to death, or targeted as a result of their political beliefs or organizing efforts on behalf of movements struggling for justice and liberation. Through our lawsuits we have uncovered secret abuses by police and government officials - including a torture ring inside the Chicago Police Department - and have recovered millions of dollars for our clients through settlements and trial verdicts.
Again and again the adlerclowns give it all away, the head of finance eddie burke a high priced lawyer should stop this practice but then again I said lawyer enough said! Guess when it is "our" money they can take it and throw it away anyway they want, must be nice to be above the laws!
Paying these death row rats money is deplorable. They should give them each one dollar for their trouble. The corporation counsel should learn to try cases and fight to win instead of proposing multi-million dollar settlements for career criminals.
My father is a just recently retired Chicago Cop and for the 40 some years he was on the job i prayed daily that one of these piece of shit useless motherfuckers would not kill him. He was nearly killed in Englewood when him and his partner were chasing an assclown who turned and shot my dads partner in a gangway. so i say nothing to the shit heads.....GIVE THE 19 MILLION THE THE WIDOWS AND KIDS!!!
flint taylor, locke bowman, jon loevy etc. are nothing more than flies on the carcass of a now rotting c.p.d.. as the first poster wrote i too will never forget those police funerals which never seemed to be mentioned anymore. i knew richie o'brien personally. it's maddening to think the city is actually going to pay these people who actually did what they were convicted of only to be pardoned by another criminal.
why does scumbag attorney frank avila park at city hall using a media plaquard to go to court and city council chambers for settlement hearings....isn't he getting enough money to pay for his park.
check his clout out - he's got peeps inside cook county government and some of the city aldermen - i'd check who he and his law firms have donated to. He's getting certain cases steered to him - amazing how many settlements he's gotten .
Was anyone found guilty of anything? Or do thye just hand out millions?? Which plaintiff lawyer?? Levy? Where is the DoJ? FBI? You know that guy is dirty and kicking back to the pols. Seriously make it stop.
Has any of this so called torture ever been proven and isn't there a statute of limitations on these lawsuits or is this just another case of city council kickbacks???
-ALSO-
1/10/2008 03:20:00 AM
I too will never forget my first funeral and hope and pray every day that I never have to experience another. Please stay safe out there everybody.
God bless Jon Burge and his Dets. They were the police and made Chicago a better place. It took the scumbag lawyers, con-man so-called reverends and polititian ass kissers to undo the good work those good men did.
Never a mention in the press about the victims of those killling coward asshole thugs who those guys put in prison.
Burge fought the good fight. He might of bent rules, but he was dealing with true evil.
The Wilson brothers deserved death.
Patterson isn't a victim. He's a victimizer. I hope the feds sue him for costs for his conviction.
You know, it's this attitude which is behind your public perception problem.
Both the City, and two Special Prosecutors, admit that Burge tortured people, so those lawyers were right all along.
Sticking up for Burge just reinforces the public perception that police officers always cover each other, no matter how bad.
Me, I hate Burge. If he'd done his job right, none of us would ever have heard of those people collecting big settlements today. Think about it -- he made people feel sorry for a f*ing cop-killer. People should never feel sorry for a cop-killer. Never. Nice work, you asshat Burge.
Ask Madison Hobley's mother-in-law if he was guilty in killing her daughter and grandkids. i'll guarantee they'll NEVER put her on the news.
lt. burge for president. i hope he is in florida with a nice cocktail in hand and a good cigar. whatever he did to the assassin wilson brothers is all right by me. cold blooded murderers of two of our brothers.
its a disgrace, it should have went to court, the coppers were not afraid of a court hearing. how much you bet the feds wont touch Lt. Burge or the others, because of the inconsistencies in the liars stories. I hope flint taylor burns in hell. How about the non police victims?
For that kind of dough you can kick the ever living shit out of me!
here we go again. law makers in Springfield are attempting to raise taxes to take care of the transit problem here in Chicago. I have an expensive car note that I pay everymonth, I have to pay for repairs due to wear and tear from use, I have to pay for car insurance, I have to pay for expensive skyrocketing gas for my car and I have to sit in gridlock several times a day. SO WHY do I have to pay more taxes to cover the trains and buses. If they are running short of money then pay their employees less, cut back jobs or hears a real hard one, Raise rates. Let the people that take public transportation for it. Don't make me and my family pay for it.
"Payouts on claims long disputed, never proven and long since relegated to the far side of the statute of limitations..."
B.S. I insured the chicago police. I have seen them abuse people in handcuffs and in custody. Did the perp deserve it? Yes, but that still doesn't make it right or acceptable.
Kicked, beaten, threatened, and what else? Thats what my soon-to-be Polish in-laws did to me to force me to the alter! Only later did I find out about the three four-flats in Cragin that came with the daughter of Stash and Evelyn! Thank God I married rich! So tell me Flynt Taylor there was an easier way to fortune? Rape and murder women, children and policeman you say? Hope Taylor, Bowman, Ed Burke and George Ryan get cancer. And God protect Jon Burge.
To 1/10/2008 11:50:00 AM,
No Sir, two connected turkeys appointed by a turkey judge carved up five million dollars and prepared a report no more in-depth than a five-year-old could have authored. More Irish bullshit.
$20 million?
I just bought stock in a local grape pop company. I see buisness skyrocketing in the near future.
Do the shitheads who are back in the joint get their money thru automatic deposit in their inmate account.
Ilove it when Aaron Patterson is suing the shyster lawyers who helped him scam this money.
And of course there is Eddie Burke who again claims that these shitheads didn't get enough money. Eddit the thief is bound and determined to give away the money of the real taxpayers.
Mr. Superintendant, I think you should open an investigation of eddie burk, assign me to it so I can someday drag his ass out of city hall in handcuffs, kicking and screaming and put him in the bowels of CCJ so he can fall in love with some 400 # vice lord.
Those are just my good thoughts for the day, I'LL BE BACK!
After two federal civil trials that found Burge etal not guilty who gives these assholes the right to make this decision on their own with our tax money.
God bless Burge. I truly mean that. Putting those assholes away saved a lot of innocent, hard working people a lot of misery these clowns would have caused if left on the streets.
"I have an expensive car note that I pay everymonth, I have to pay for repairs due to wear and tear from use, I have to pay for car insurance, I have to pay for expensive skyrocketing gas for my car and I have to sit in gridlock several times a day. SO WHY do I have to pay more taxes to cover the trains and buses."
Duh. You choose to use a car, you should have to pay for the consequences. As for why you should pay for public transit - just imagine how much worse the gridlock would be if all those people were out on the roads with you during rush hour! If you're so attached to your car, you should be happy to pay a little bit more to fund others to stay off the road and give you a clearer commute and less competition for parking spaces.
OK these mutts are milllionares now. How long until they sqaunder that money and are back in prison again???? Will anyone of them manage to turn their lives around and become normal productive members of society. I bet my pension no they won't. This story isn't over, more chapters will be written on these murdering pieces of shit. Stay tuned.
Payouts on claims long disputed, never proven and long since relegated to the far side of the statute of limitations..."
B.S. I insured the chicago police. I have seen them abuse people in handcuffs and in custody. Did the perp deserve it? Yes, but that still doesn't make it right or acceptable.
1/10/2008 04:36:00 PM
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In what capacity did you "INSURE" The Chicago Police?
We are not insured seperately from the rest of the city of shitcago. And as an "INSURER" when did you witness prisoner abuse?
Listen asswipe, we in the CPD DO NOT refer to offenders as PERPS!
Go back and hide under your BullSh*t rock.
Your full of SH*T!!
Im looking for some copper to put a screwdriver in my ass.
It wasn't racial with Burge, he hated murderers and in Area 2, the Blacks were doing the murders.
If a family member of mine was the victim of a violent crime, I would want Burge and his crew to investigate it, not Patty Walsh, not Maria Maher, not Charlie Williams, and the list could include a good portion of the White exempts currently on this job.
15 yrs. ago, only one boss stood up and backed Jon Burge, Lt. Jack Regan of old Area 3 Violent Crimes, his career light went out and he never made commander, even with over 30 yrs experience in the Detective Division dealing strictly with homicide investigations.
Jack Regan was comparable to today's John Farrell, both having a wealth of knowledge and who looked out for us.
God Bless Jon Burge and the detectives who served under him.
May they live long and in good health.
I want to thank you newer regime Officers for your votes of support and confidence. Remember, I never beat, choked, bludgeoned, put a cattle prod up the ass, slammed repeatedly in the head with the yellow pages, banged a typewriter off of the skull or tortured any rotten son of a bitch that didn't deserve it. I am not losing any hair over this bull shit.
"Listen asswipe, we in the CPD DO NOT refer to offenders as PERPS!"
But some 'in the CPD' do, on a regular basis, kick shit out of citizens long after the reasonable need to do so has passed.
Just because you can.
Go ahead, say it ain't so.
Wake up moron! Do you really think that Burge "acted" for his own pleasure? A resounding NO! Blame his boss for putting the pressure on him to get confessions. I commend Burge for taking the fall.
Someone killed 14 people!
George Ryan stated he saw evidence that Patterson, Orange, Hobley and Howard did not do it!
I wish that George Ryan would share that evidence with someone so the real killers can be brought to justice.
Until then it appears that the murderers of 14 people are walking the streets and could do it again.
I was tortured,may i have the .8??
"Listen asswipe, we in the CPD DO NOT refer to offenders as PERPS!"
But some 'in the CPD' do, on a regular basis, kick shit out of citizens long after the reasonable need to do so has passed.
Just because you can.
Go ahead, say it ain't so.
1/10/2008 11:58:00 PM
OK, it ain't so.
Duh. You choose to use a car, you should have to pay for the consequences. As for why you should pay for public transit - just imagine how much worse the gridlock would be if all those people were out on the roads with you during rush hour! If you're so attached to your car, you should be happy to pay a little bit more to fund others to stay off the road and give you a clearer commute and less competition for parking spaces.
1/10/2008 08:52:00 PM
I'm willing to deal with the gridlock. If you love public transportation so much, you should be paying for my gas so the train or bus isn't so crowded for you. Sounds kind of silly doesn't it? But so does me paying for your bus.
To: 1/10/2008 05:32:00 PM
Egan and Boyle are (were in Boyle's case -- he just died) both former prosecutors. Egan was the States Attorney. Nobody ever accused either of them of being soft on crime. Just the opposite.
Probably the best indication is what the lawyers said about each other.
Flynt Taylor called the report a "whitewash." Egan called Taylor a "shyster." These aren't people who get along, or see the world the same way.
They could have got Wilson, and the rest, without torturing them. But they took the easy way out.
The result is that the CPD gets a big black eye, and nobody remembers Fahey or O'Brien (and cut the crap about Irish -- you better believe we cared about these officers -- they were ours.)
Everyone remembers Burge, and Wilson.
When everone forgets two murdered police officers, and everyone remembers the murderer and the cop who tortured him, somebody screwed up, big time.
We Irish know a thing or two about torture. The Brits used it on us for centuries. And we know that, no matter how much info it gets you, it always bites you in the ass in the end, because it always comes out, and always makes you look like sh*t, and makes the killers look like victims.
We kind of liked it when the Brits tortured us, because we knew we'd come out ahead in the end. Think about it.
To 1/10/2008 11:58:00 PM
it ain't so
"Listen asswipe, we in the CPD DO NOT refer to offenders as PERPS!"
But some 'in the CPD' do, on a regular basis, kick shit out of citizens long after the reasonable need to do so has passed.
Just because you can.
Go ahead, say it ain't so.
The only people I overheard say "perp" are the ones from SIU
To 1/11/2008 03:11:00 PM
the college kids in Carbondale say "perp"?
Madison Hobley you're a murdering baby killing bitch that should have been ass raped until DOA in prison.
Here's hoping the feds indict your jheri curl wearing bitch ass.
Don't forget to give your special friend John Yellow Journalist Conroy his cut you lowlife bitch.
'Take your lotto stuff it up your ass and die and rot in hell.
Just shows the direction this department has taken. The current crop of micro managers would never back a copper. If the wilson brothers would have been shot and killed resisting were would we be today.
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