Seriously?
Anita Alvarez continues to make the entire Koschman affair look like the biggest coverup since Watergate:
Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez is fighting an effort by the family of David Koschman to make public transcripts of witness interviews related to Koschman’s homicide case.
“The wholesale disclosure of the information that the petitioners request would disrupt the ongoing criminal investigation and further undermine an already dim prospect of any future criminal prosecution” of Richard J. Vanecko, a nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley, Alvarez said Tuesday in an 11-page filing.
What future criminal prosecution? Hasn't Anita and her people said there will be no prosecution? Everything they've said to this point implies there won't be any justice for David Koschman.
Oh wait, the civil suit. Right, we had forgotten about that. Anita has to continue to protect the Daley crime family from embarrassment and the criminal justice system.
Oh wait, the civil suit. Right, we had forgotten about that. Anita has to continue to protect the Daley crime family from embarrassment and the criminal justice system.
Labels: corruption, crime
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
63 Comments:
Maybe Anita can hire the Vanecko Widget Counters to continue the investigation into David Koschman's murder. Oh, did I say murder? Maybe it was just an accident. Poor David just tripped and fell on the sidewalk causing his fatal injury. Is that why coward Richard Vanecko ran off with his buddy after the "accident"? Alverez is a pawn of Richard Devine who is a pawn of Richard M. Daley. All of these fucks should be behind bars for their criminal behavior in this incident. It won't happen. Let there please be a Judgement Day so David can rest in peace.
The sad part of this is that there will be no civil suit. Its too late to file one. It seems kind of odd that the victims mom never made a sound til after it was too late to file a civil suit. This case will never get prosecuted and it will never be heard in civil court either.
This is the Cook County version of the "Fast and Furious" cover-up that Obama & Holder are trying to do.
heard the vanecko family won the bidding to be prosecution lawyers.
Let that bald-ass vanecko die from a punch and see how fast someone is arrested, tried and convicted.
WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CIRIC / 06 FEB 12/ CHICAGO POLITICAL COLUMN:
Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, in my opinion, is a walking contradiction. So much so that I seriously doubt she can be trusted when it comes to protecting the rights of "everyday citizens." If, however, you are connected to say, the former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and his cluster of political cronies, well, then there is nothing to worry about because it appears you would be more than safe!
The recent decision by Anita Alvarez to establish a new six-man team to solely investigate "wrongful convictions" appears to be designed to show voters she somehow has gotten a heart for the many everyday people who have been railroaded over the years by not only the likes of a disgraced Jon Burge or other corrupt members of the Chicago Police Department, but by those in her own office.
But kid yourselves not. This is all a ruse and comes at a time when Anita Alvarez' motives behind suppressing a full and transparent investigation into "what really happened" the night RJ Vanecko and his politically connected friends confronted David Koschman may prove her downfall. And let us never forget that that confrontation led to what has already been officially declared as a homicide and that no charges have ever been brought against all those involved.
I have suspected all along that Anita Alvarez was put into the one thing a career politician dreads - having to choose to between doing what is right or protecting those who have supported her climb up the political ladder. And I believe she has chosen the latter from the minute and the hour the Chicago Sun-Times exposed the irregularities surrounding the murder of David Koschman.
The Sun-Times have presented facts that would lend credence to their assertion that there has been a gross miscarriage of justice surrounding this case and that there is now a reasonable doubt that a conspiracy has been committed. Sadly, that conspiracy appears to not only include members of the Chicago Police Department but extend to members of her own office as well.
Many in the legal profession have stated on the record that the disappearance of a DA's files in a capital case just doesn't happen. Yet, in the Koschman case -files not only appear to have been mishandled but were subjected to some sort of a Houdini magic act to boot. Files disappearing and reappearing just doesn't happen! Unless, of course, someone wants to hide something?
Naturally, I am not the only one who believes that there is something very, very wrong here. However if you are unfamiliar with the events surrounding the RJ Vanecko and David Koschman encounter and official actions thereafter, please click here for my previous posts. All I can say is that people must judge for themselves if they believe in what Anita Alvarez has done is right or wrong.
Still, Anita Alvarez refuses to believe that an impartial outside investigator is needed to sort this out. If that is in fact her position, should people believe her when she says “In my view, my job is not just about racking up convictions, it’s about always seeking justice, even if that measure of justice means that we must acknowledge mistakes of the past?”
Seems to me acknowledging the past is not one of Anita Alvarez' strong suits.
Voters better take note , though, because one day -
it may very well be their kid who is killed by "someone connected".
I don't know if she still does it, now that we have a new mayor, but whenever Anita made an appearance, gave an award, sat on a dais, she always made an obligatory little complimentary speech at the beginning of her remarks.
She always praised Richard Daley, somewhat in the style of religious people, who first praise and thank God before they commence to the business at hand. I found it a little creepy and people were always a bit confused, wondering at the motivation of her remarks.
Anita's ongoing coverup may lead to the end of her career in politics and hopefully prison; if the Feds ever clean this cesspool of corruption up.
Not true. No way that we've been told we start at 0900 instead of 0930 (as it was the last 3 years) so as to avoid that extra 1/2 hour if we have court. Nor have we been told we can't call parole (when notified) during off-duty hours. No one told us that OT won't be approved if we call on off hours (as it has always been).
-Not A/1 GEU
time to vote her out of office
why did the police officers go on vacation cpd fucked this up time to vote her out of office BIG MONEY FOR THE MOTHER ON THIS ONE
Where the hell are the feds?????
It's the furthest thing from a coverup. Read the State's Attorney's response filed on January 31, 2012, to the petition for a special prosecutor. It's enlightening.
People's Response to Petition to Appoint a Special Prosecutor in the Matter of the Death of David Koschman
Wasn't Toomin the judge on Cozzi's case?
If only the Dicks that handled it originally had the ethical stomach to do the right thing. But instead they told the kids mother, "you'd be impressed" by who was involved in the case. It makes all of us look like complicit soulless robots who look the other way for the royal family...
SCC... you've never said exactly why Vanecko should be charged ... why don't you do us all a favor and clarify
Anita Alvarez = Accessory to Murder, after the fact
Anita is driving the getaway car!!!
The mother of this kid must be going thru hell with the fuckery Alvarez is putting her thru.
Had the situation been reversed and the Kochman boy sucker-punched Vanecko, killing him, every effort would have been made to find the fleeing aggressor and Kochman would be sitting in jail right now.
If Mrs. Kochman or any one who knows her reads this, please tel her of two names: Holly Maddox & Martha Moxley.
In the late 1970's, Holly Maddox was murdered by Ira Einhorn & Martha Moxley was murdered by Michael Skakel.
It took decades for the family to find justice for there daughters because both murderers were protected by powerful and influential people.
After about 25 years, in 2002, both men were sentenced to spending the rest of there lives in prision.
My tin-foil cap tells me justice will eventually catch-up with Vanecko.
In the sad event it doesn't; if nothing else, I hope Mrs. Kochman's efforts results in Vanecko and everyone associated with the cover-up being identified and thus finding it impossible to walk in public without getting the stink-eye.
If anyone knows where donations can be made to help finance Mrs. Kochman's pursuit of justice, please advise.
Not a Cop
P.S. & off-topic, an amazing story every American should know about is the story of Don Scott and the Trails End Ranch Raid of Ventura County, CA. It is another story about how out of control our government becomes if we let it.
It's a story 20 years-old but in lieu of Waco, Ruby Ridge, the Bank Bailouts, Madoff, Fast & Furious, our getting screwed on the price of a gallon of gas in the midst of the warmest winter since the 1930's (i.e. high gas inventories), it's one more example of the serious assaults on our American way of life and the government tyranny that is borne from good men and women doing nothing.
While it is a story of out of control law enforcement officers and a obviously messed up department, my pointing to it is not meant to paint all law enforcement people and agencies with a broad brush of overreaching and corruption.
We have to acknowledge evil where ever we find it and we must take the appropriate steps to defeat it.
When will the G indict CORRUPTION Inc Anita?
A Sam Adams -Rod Blagojevich tactic. Orchestrated by the Democrats stategists. Keep blabbing then expect that the jury pool would be tainted. As if every judge at a bench trial wouldnt be partial to a Daley kin.
Lest we forget the sloth that was contacted for charging purposes.
anita come on girl your bought and paid for by the daley criminal machine! Admit it without the illinois combine and hdo you would be selling streetwise! Why won't the feds step in? As soon as barry obama finishes destroying the economy and the new PRESIDENT is in January 2013 bet your bottom dollar Patrick Fitzgerald will be unleashed and will take down the daley crime family,and the 50 cowards of the city,along with the cowards of the county and the rest!
The statute of limitations for a civil suit expired after 2 years. If this was such a good case, how come no lawsuit by the family?
Poor Mrs. Koschman is getting used by the Scum Times to sell newspapers.
Hey give Anita a break. She wants to go on to bigger & better things by going after cops, not investigating connected nephews. In any case, Daley royalty should be able to murder whomever they like.
The stench from her office is unbearable!
Who wants to bet that Vanecko will be in Moscow with young Patrick Daley's friends by the time his deposition is approved?
OT: has this case been resolved yet?
http://www.suntimes.com/news/6135962-418/feds-take-over-fund-tied-to-daleys-son.html
how about this?
http://www.suntimes.com/news/watchdogs/5754016-452/ex-chicago-mayor-daleys-son-profited-after-airport-wi-fi-deal.html
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-01-06/news/ct-met-city-minority-fraud-20110106_1_municipal-sewer-services-patrick-daley-robert-vanecko
Anita Alvarez you are a fucking disgrace to your office. It is so obviously clear that you are covering for the daley clan.
Oh anita what are they going to do with you? You tow the company line and let this case go away! anita if you were really a states attorney not a fake you would be asking the feds to prosecute,you know like you do with coppers with no clout!
Ahhhh, just another example of ineptitude on the part of Illinois (crook county) voters. Glad I didn't vote for her, but that's neither here nor there now I guess.
Why are all of you backing this Flint Taylor Kochman bullshit!?
If they appoint an independent prosecutor, he will do one thing and one thing only. He will try to put the officers and detectives involved into jail.
Why?
Because he can't put Vanecho into jail because Vanecho didn't break any laws.
This is an attempt by the Sun Times to jam up cops. And the biggest supporters of this witch hunt are on this blog.
Cover-up??? It's "The Chicago Way"!
Mr. Vanecko can run but he can't hide forever. I hope when he takes his last breath the Big Guy, and poor David who had his life cut short by this bastard, will get his just due.
"This is the Cook County version of the "Fast and Furious" cover-up that Obama & Holder are trying to do.
2/22/2012 12:40:00 AM"
Seriously? "Fast and Furios?"
Get over yourself.
It's a very unfortunate incident that ended in a sad death. You can't support a murder prosecution without substantial evidence. It wasn't there. All the media attention in the world won't change that.
"WRITTEN BY MICHAEL CIRIC / 06 FEB 12/ CHICAGO POLITICAL COLUMN:
Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, in my opinion, is a walking contradiction. So much so that I seriously doubt she .....Voters better take note , though, because one day -
it may very well be their kid who is killed by "someone connected".
2/22/2012 01:29:00 AM"
Fuck off Scum-Times
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Where the hell are the feds?????
2/22/2012 04:32:00 AM
The city is being run by the Feds, thats why its fucked up!
"This is the Cook County version of the "Fast and Furious" cover-up that Obama & Holder are trying to do.
2/22/2012 12:40:00 AM"
Seriously? "Fast and Furios?"
Get over yourself.
It's a very unfortunate incident that ended in a sad death. You can't support a murder prosecution without substantial evidence. It wasn't there. All the media attention in the world won't change that.
Bullshit, if the offender was a police officer, he would be in prison right now!
Sooner or later the daley scumbags will all suffocate in the piles of shit they have created !!!!
Justice will spill from.somewhere. The truth always surfaces in time. This will not go away!
By the comments on this blog, one thing becomes very clear, at least to me. That nothing short of a special grand jury will clear up this matter once and for all. Bring in a prosecutor from out of state to run the grand jury along with retired FBI agents. Nothing that happens in the political arena in Illinois can be trusted. No one has any confidence in the criminal justice system in this county.
We the citizens of this zoo called Chicago are suffocating right now under the piles of shit they left behind.
Why are all of you backing this Flint Taylor Kochman bullshit!?
If they appoint an independent prosecutor, he will do one thing and one thing only. He will try to put the officers and detectives involved into jail.
Why?
Because he can't put Vanecho into jail because Vanecho didn't break any laws.
This is an attempt by the Sun Times to jam up cops. And the biggest supporters of this witch hunt are on this blog.
2/22/2012 11:46:00 AM
Hey pal, if the area detectives did in fact cover up this case, and in return they received favors for it, they should go to jail.
Rest assured RA Vanecko is sweating. Life isn't as sweet as it once was. This issue is now on his mind on a daily basis. He knows the statue of limitations on murder never expire. When little man Daley has the graber and is gone, the day of reckoning will be here for Vanecko.
The only one who can clear this whole mess up is Darren O'Brien...the head of Felony review at the time!!!!
It's been said many times, but if the roles had been reversed and Vanecko had taken the hard, fatal fall you can bet Koschman would still be doing time.
Two worlds out there folks, and most of us live in the one where you're expected to bend over and grab your ankles.
STOP WITH THE COVER UP CRAP. The facts are that Vanecko stood in a line up and was NOT picked by any of Koschman's friends as the person who threw the punch. They could not identify him. Venecko friend said Koschman was the aggressor. Koschman friends told somewhat conflicting stories as to how this all went down. Venecko made no statement, he invoked his fifth amendment right to remain silent on the advise of his attorney. Even if he had been identified as the person who threw the punch, there is no way he would have been charged with murder. Manslaughter(involuntary/voluntary) would be the only possible charges, and those are a reach. They are probation to five years max. Why was no civil case filed? Maybe the mom talked to civil attorneys and found out she had nothing. Tragic but there was no cover up.
Police haters Locke Bowman and Flint Taylor are the lawyers calling for a special prosecutor. Enough said.
If CPD dics and brass helped with covering this murder up I am 100% for them going to the joint. That makes them as bad as Anita Alvarez and Vanecko. Let the sum rot. They are not cops but political hacks and deserve to pay fr the murder of this kid.
Any representative of law enforcement complicit in a homicide cov erup deserves 10 big ones in the IDOC .
Hollywood should.produce a movie on this to remind future generations of how corrupt Daley was.
11: 46 am. If this was your kid, you wouldnt care if these coppers took the hit for the cover up. Plain and simple, those detectives fucked up. You are sworn to serve and protect, all citizens, not just the assholes that call you in to the w/c office and tell you to "take care of this and make it go away". Your suppose to the make sure the investigation isn't half-assed, so the ASA has no other choice, but to prosecute. An investigation, where vanecko would be doing life in orange. Honestly, if this ass didnt think he did anything wrong, why run away from scene, holding hands with his buddy, like two school girls. Then leave their, so called girlfriends behind.It would have behooved these detective to treat the case as if it was their own kin and worked so as to gather the evidence led to vanecko at fault or not, for the young mans murder. Instead, they go on vacation, how convienient. It just doesnt look good. Instead they look complicit of a cover up of the clouted getting away with murder. If it wasnt that devine and daley are so crooked, one would think nothing of it, but it appears these detectives and devine/alvarez sold this kid and his mother out. Hopefully, the same injustice given this kid reaches all those connected. Nothing is more heart wrenching then burying a child, but its even worse when there is no closure, because the good guys, decided to serve and protect the criminal cook county machine.
STOP WITH THE COVER UP CRAP. The facts are that Vanecko stood in a line up and was NOT picked by any of Koschman's friends as the person who threw the punch. They could not identify him. Venecko friend said Koschman was the aggressor. Koschman friends told somewhat conflicting stories as to how this all went down. Venecko made no statement, he invoked his fifth amendment right to remain silent on the advise of his attorney. Even if he had been identified as the person who threw the punch, there is no way he would have been charged with murder. Manslaughter(involuntary/voluntary) would be the only possible charges, and those are a reach. They are probation to five years max. Why was no civil case filed? Maybe the mom talked to civil attorneys and found out she had nothing. Tragic but there was no cover up.
2/22/2012 09:07:00 PM
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I agree - no coverup. It's just a shitty case - You can't charge a guy for murder when the 'victim' was the agressor.
Sorry.
Was the victim the aggressor or not? Simple fucking question.
Rest assured RA Vanecko is sweating. Life isn't as sweet as it once was. This issue is now on his mind on a daily basis. He knows the statue of limitations on murder never expire. When little man Daley has the graber and is gone, the day of reckoning will be here for Vanecko.
2/22/2012 05:29:00 PM
Okay, once again... unless you're referring to the Statue of Liberty, the word you want is STATUTE. Three T's.
Big huge coverup.
The odd part in this whole mess is that the detectives involved are likely to get their heads handed to them for covering up a case that never needed to be covered up in the first place.
One has to wonder if they were trying to curry favor. They knew the evidence was not going to support charging anyone. Maybe they got too smart for their own good.
If you weren't there you don't know what happened (in the Area for the investigation). So stop talking out of your ass. I was there. No one got a phone call, or a visit. No one was 'rewarded' for fixing the case. Plain and simple, it did not happen. Vanecko wasn't identified and the victim's pals gave inconsistant statements. A tragedy, yes. But you can't charge anyone without evidence.
Please stop bad-mouthing the dicks, who by the way, were outstanding detectives and straight-arrows.
If they truly helped in a cover-up where is their reward? What did they get? Promotion? Money? What?
Short answer: Nothing.
Check the old Berlin case where the victim "Committed suicide" by throwing herself through a penthouse window of the Hancock building. You'd have to drive a car thru one to break it. Everyone on that case wound up a big boss. I think the victim's name was lorraine kowalski.
Not here tho. Not even a wisp of a reward.
"Anonymous said...
STOP WITH THE COVER UP CRAP. The facts are that Vanecko stood in a line up and was NOT picked by any of Koschman's friends as the person who threw the punch. They could not identify him. Venecko friend said Koschman was the aggressor. Koschman friends told somewhat conflicting stories as to how this all went down. Venecko made no statement, he invoked his fifth amendment right to remain silent on the advise of his attorney. Even if he had been identified as the person who threw the punch, there is no way he would have been charged with murder. Manslaughter(involuntary/voluntary) would be the only possible charges, and those are a reach. They are probation to five years max. Why was no civil case filed? Maybe the mom talked to civil attorneys and found out she had nothing. Tragic but there was no cover up.""
Amen, brother. Enough with the cover-up crap. Lost files look bad, but that is all. The evidence wasn't there to charge when it was fresh. It ain't gonna get better now. No civil suit because there was no Civil Rights violation against anyone. Let it go. Just another unprovabel--therefore properly rejected--case. Unfortunate for the deceased's family, but not a Murder case.
"The only one who can clear this whole mess up is Darren O'Brien...the head of Felony review at the time!!!!"'
And... he did. The case was not charged because of a lack of positive identification and lack of evidence of intent to kill. Get over it--The Sun-Times is just trying to Drag CPD and CCSAO through the mud--POs should think about that before adding fuel to that furor here.
STOP WITH THE COVER UP CRAP. The facts are that Vanecko stood in a line up and was NOT picked by any of Koschman's friends as the person who threw the punch. They could not identify him. Venecko friend said Koschman was the aggressor. Koschman friends told somewhat conflicting stories as to how this all went down. Venecko made no statement, he invoked his fifth amendment right to remain silent on the advise of his attorney. Even if he had been identified as the person who threw the punch, there is no way he would have been charged with murder. Manslaughter(involuntary/voluntary) would be the only possible charges, and those are a reach. They are probation to five years max. Why was no civil case filed? Maybe the mom talked to civil attorneys and found out she had nothing. Tragic but there was no cover up.
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Bullshit.
"Seriously? "Fast and Furios?"
Get over yourself.
It's a very unfortunate incident that ended in a sad death. You can't support a murder prosecution without substantial evidence. It wasn't there. All the media attention in the world won't change that.
Bullshit, if the offender was a police officer, he would be in prison right now! "
Talk about bullshit!? How many no DNA/No Statement murders get charged where numerous eyeballs can't identify the offender?
The average guy would've been charged with manslaughter and let the court decide.
Sorry to the mother here, but if that were my son, I would have been all over this 8 years ago and not waited until Carol Marin had the balls to open her big yap (AFTER Daley announced he was not running again BTW)to do anything about it. If anybody is denying the woman closure, it's the Sun-quirer. Also, witnesses for both parties have been lying to authorites since the beginning, they couldn't pick the doofus out of a lineup, but NOW they have total recall and are to be taken at their word? Nope.
It's the furthest thing from a coverup. Read the State's Attorney's response filed on January 31, 2012, to the petition for a special prosecutor. It's enlightening.
People's Response to Petition to Appoint a Special Prosecutor in the Matter of the Death of David Koschman
2/22/2012 04:32:00 AM
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here, read this that someone posted .... here's the link if it doesn't work ...
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fs3.documentcloud.org%2Fdocuments%2F288548%2Fkoschman-response.pdf
just read it ... start about page 20 and go to about 25 or so to get the gist
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