Gee, Imagine That
Not only did this scumbag get money from the City, the County paid him off for filing claims:
- Authorities recount run-ins with the man charged in the bat attack on two women in Chicago's Bucktown community.
ABC7 has learned Heriberto Viramontes has received settlements of thousands of dollars from the City of Chicago and Cook County in recent years. Those settlements were reached after Viramontes claimed he was the victim of police abuse.
Even though officers denied those claims, Viramontes received cash settlements totaling $18,000.
He attacked a female Cook County officer and got $2,000. He got $16,000 from Chicago following another incident where he was listed as the attacker, but the officer failed to show up in court.
The Chicago way - paying your criminals for fighting the police and then when the settlement money runs out, letting them victimize you again.
The Chicago way - paying your criminals for fighting the police and then when the settlement money runs out, letting them victimize you again.
Labels: un-fucking-fucking-believable
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
25 Comments:
Isn't it amazing what the media can find out when they actually do their jobs?
Hey is this a Freudian slip:
Mayor Richard Daley says his office will be meeting with Gov. Pat Quinn to determine why the governor is balking at signing the McCormick Place overhaul legislation.
"We'll be talking to him very shortly," Daley told reporters today.
When asked about the consequences for the city if the bill is not signed, Daley said, "We have to make sure we have the best convention atmosphere because people depend off of it -- both local, county and state governments basically get a huge amount of money off it. That's realistic. A lot of sales tax coming in."
Did he mean to say, "We have to make the sure we have the best convention atmosphere because people GET RICH off of it? How can you depend of of it? Strange choice of words.
Maybe Chicago can look at how other big cities handle these types of complaints. There has to be a better way than paying out on every one. Or, is there another reason we keep paying paying the same law firms to sue us?
To the taxpayers out there:
Get rid of the thieves in office.
2% 2% 2% 2% 2%....
I don't intend to be a pain-in-the-ass with this comment, but, let's call a spade a spade: The scumbag "legal mouthpiece" is the conniving culprit who filed the "nuisance" lawsuits against the city & county; not Viramontes. Viramontes doesn't have an IQ above room temperature.
Viramontes found the cunning and conniving and clever and crafty attorney who filed, but the legal mouthpiece was the composer and the muscle.
And, of course, you have the complicity of the accomplices in the city & county Law Departments (probably from Shortshanks on down) who believe that offering and paying settlements to get rid of these nuisance lawsuits is the way to go.
Why should a person stop being a criminal when you can get paid on both ends. Beat two broads with a baseball bat, grab their purse and get money, get caught, sue the city, get money. Such a deal.
Folks, this is not the Chicago way. It's federal law. Federal law puts the City on its back when dealing with these cases because federal law requires the City to pay exhorbitant attorney's fees.
It's crazy, it encourages people to sue the cops like mad, but it's not a Chicago thing. It's a federal thing.
Write your congressman - seriously, that's the only solution to this problem.
Why is it that the attorneys that represent these dirt bags have envelopes full of cash in their briefcases? It's because they are always ready to return tax payer mony to a select few honest Chicago politicians. Anyone care to guess who?
It might be worth the $2,000.00 to use the fact that he punched a female officer for aggrevation in his sentancing hearing. Shows a pattern, along with his domestic cases, of female abuse.
From the news report:
A judge tossed the aggravated battery to a police officer charge saying the punch to the sheriff's officer could have been accidental.
As for the Chicago settlement, city lawyers say their decision to give Viramontes $16,000 was far less than the $30,000 suggested by a judge.
The attorneys who represented Viramontes in his lawsuits both declined to comment.
SO WHO ARE THE JAGOFF JUDGES AND ATTORNEYS IN THESE CASES?
The FOP should make a huge deal out of this to show the incompetence that is running the department and city by making the sued po's the bad guys and how CR#'s are bs. But as usual there is nothing but silence.
Viramontes found the cunning and conniving and clever and crafty attorney who filed, but the legal mouthpiece was the composer and the muscle.
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No, he didn't have to find him. They loiter around the courts and approach people who's cases have been dropped. They also linger around and listen to the POs talk to each other about the cases to get leads. They are truly the bottom feeders.
I found out that a lawsuit against me had been settled. I called and spoke with Sr. Paralegal who stated "We get hundreds of those a week. We just ask them what they want to go away." He was 22 and got $14,000. He was laughing in his mug shot photo. I was never deposed or asked anything regarding the suit nor were the other officers. There is where the money is going!
"He got $16,000 from Chicago following another incident where he was listed as the attacker, but the officer failed to show up in court."
Who are you blaming this one on again? Perhaps if the officer would have done his job, this asshole would have been behind bars.
Like I said. The city has a plan (Da Mayor). The laws must be changed, give the power back to the police. It will not get better until the police can be the police.
Part of the plan was to disburse all the low income (project) people into decent neighborhoods so they can destroy and infect surrounding youth. The plan is working. There is more to this plan, but it ain't pretty. But the end results will be wonderful 10-15 years from now.
Come on guys/gals, the city is taking these to trial lately and if the media were paying attention, or reporting accurately, they would show you that the city is winning a lot of these b.s. cases instead of settling them.
Who are you blaming this one on again? Perhaps if the officer would have done his job, this asshole would have been behind bars.
Pretty quit to point a finger aren't you? Maybe the officer wasn't notified or maybe he was IOD.
I found one case filed in Federal court, Viramontes v. City of Chicago,
2008cv06361
a lawyer needs to access the case file through Pacer
I went to court on battery to Po for myself and for partners several times. You have to go to court for these. By the same token, I am among the officers for whom the city attorneys did an admirable job on a lawsuit. Exposed a piece of lying shit on the stand and blew the whole case apart. They do well for some of us sometimes. High five figure lawsuit went up in smoke. Even the lawyer didn't get paid.
Thank Richie Daley and his team of idiots at corp counsel. Any other large city would fight this crap and countersue.
From the news report:
A judge tossed the aggravated battery to a police officer charge saying the punch to the sheriff's officer could have been accidental.
An accidental punch? You gotta be kidding....who was the idiot judge on this???
"Part of the plan was to disburse all the low income (project) people into decent neighborhoods so they can destroy and infect surrounding youth. The plan is working. There is more to this plan, but it ain't pretty. But the end results will be wonderful 10-15 years from now.
5/20/2010 02:29:00 PM"
two words:
soylent green
Anonymous said...
"He got $16,000 from Chicago following another incident where he was listed as the attacker, but the officer failed to show up in court."
Who are you blaming this one on again? Perhaps if the officer would have done his job, this asshole would have been behind bars.
5/20/2010 12:52:00 PM
IOD?
You mean to teLL me... aLL this time i have been sLipping and faLLing, spiLLing hot coffee on myseLf... anything to con some money in a Lawsuit. And aLL i have to do is start shit with the police?
This piece of trash has been on the loose bothering Bucktown for at least 2 years yet the folks in 014 have repeatedly refused to even go after him at times. My own girlfriend lives in Bucktown and she has personally reported to 911 and directly to a desk captain in 014 things this punk has done, named him by name, taken very clear camera phone pictures of him and his havoc and still nothing. I mention this not as a jab at our brothers and sisters on 014 but to point out that this no good punk could have long since been stopped
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