Burge Who?
If Rahm throws enough money at it, maybe it will go away:
Aldermen approved more than $7 million in payments Wednesday to two more men who said they were tortured during the 1980s by detectives under the command of disgraced former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge.
An attorney for one of the men suggested that Mayor Rahm Emanuel — who didn't take office until last year — should apologize for the actions of Burge, who was fired in 1993 and is now serving 4 1/2 years in federal prison for lying about the torture and abuse of suspects.
Instead, Emanuel said he wants the city to move past the scandal.
An apology would open the city to even more liability by admitting culpability.
But constantly throwing money at it isn't helping matters either.
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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
23 Comments:
I'm gettin me a lawyer.
Burge tortured me too!
Yep, the actions are even more damaging than the words.
As long as Dickhead Daley doesn't get touched by this mess the Racoon will throw even more $Millions at it. Anybody see Mr. R. J. Vanecko around? Another connected rat gone free. Truly the Daley Crime Family.
Hey, I'm Just Sayin, said...
I'm gettin me a lawyer.
Burge tortured me too!
7/26/2012 12:05:00 AM
obviously.
It is a shame that part of the deals the city makes,they can't add the words "If you gets arrested with-in 30 days for any crime you have to pay it all back"
Throwing money at it keeps Daley from giving testimony nd Daley does not want to give sworn testimony. Daley would have to plead the 5th under oath. The good thing would be we would all get some laughs at seeing mumbles squirm while he is being scrootened on the stand.
Religious discrimination by Emanuel.....wanting to stop Chick-fil-A..and he approves of Louis. Shame....never again!!!
Murders and Killings. Are those Cgo values, Rahm?? You don't speak for Cgo...cause your head is in the sand.
Why don't you do your job...protect Chicagoans from murders and killings and stop giving teachers our money.
You need to go to another city cause you don't give a dam about us. Our city is not safe and kids are the biggest drop-outs in the country...but you've caved to poor teaching habits...tossing our money around and trying to get community groups to police our city.....this is a rotten way to govern.
By your attitude...you are discriminating many in the city. You are disgraceful.
I dont know which is a bigger travesty? Daley not having to testify under oath? Rahm finding $ to save his buddy? Or Chicago taxpayers again having to foot the bill for that piece of garbage Burge? His defenders after all these many years remind of Joepa supporters, hardcore dead-enders. Im glad its almost time to pull the pin. Enjoy this crappy city, IM OUTTA HERE!
It's not throwing money. It's getting out of a case before it costs the taxpayers even more. Simple economics. The city can't escape what happened back when by refusing to face up to these cases.
anyone who either was tortured by burge and his cronies, or has a credible story that he was tortured is going to get a payout. that is just the way it is. the payouts will continue until we run out of burge victims.
the city just does not have a choice in this matter. going to court is a guaranteed losing proposition in this matter. it is far cheaper to settle up front. I would not be surprised if the burge price tage ends up exceeding $100 million in the end.
We should send the bill to Daley, not the taxpayers
Not one judge, not one jury, has convicted Jon Burge or his Dets. of TORTURING ANYONE.
9.5 didn't see the need to "move past the scandal" until Shortshanks was due to be deposed though.
I thought the city was broke!!!
This is Bullshit. The Attorneys must be kicking back to the Democommunist Party, after the Democommunist Party pays the Settlement with Middle-Class Taxpayers Dollars, whether done by an On-The-Take Judge, or otherwise. Oldest Trick in the Book.
Anonymous said...
I dont know which is a bigger travesty? Daley not having to testify under oath? Rahm finding $ to save his buddy? Or Chicago taxpayers again having to foot the bill for that piece of garbage Burge? His defenders after all these many years remind of Joepa supporters, hardcore dead-enders. Im glad its almost time to pull the pin. Enjoy this crappy city, IM OUTTA HERE!
7/26/2012 08:08:00 AM
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Wow, you seem to know EVERYTHING!
You wouldn't make a pimple on Jon Burges ass!!
Good riddance. Don't let the door hit you on the way out!
There is abolutely no proof that Cmdr. Burge, or his officers, did anything wrong. The only "proof" given is the word of low life criminal scumbags. When the court allowed these assholes to give their testimony the entire case went out the window. Now the city is paying through the ass for all these bogus misfits and making the lawyers even richer. Only in Amerika.
The City keeps paying to protect Daley but his career of shame shall soon surface, the old guard is no longer around around to protect him and new careers are to be made and headlines gained
the moral of the story, tax payers get stiffed so the ex mayor dont testify. is it possible he is hiding something. some things never change.
Wow, you seem to know EVERYTHING!
You wouldn't make a pimple on Jon Burges ass!!
Good riddance. Don't let the door hit you on the way out!
7/26/2012 03:38:00 PM
youre right, Im not a pimple on that fake cops ass. he was as bad or worse than the jagoffs he hunted. you cant selective follow the law nimrod. But why am I arguing with you? youre just another dead-ender...
Ehhhhhh?
Richie "Doo-Doo Butter" Daley was never going to hit the witness stand...
Kinda funny how when you step back and take a wide angle view of the fuckery that is Chicago.
The good citizens put their fingers in their ears as a defensive reflex when we give then straight muthafuckin' talk about the shit that has been going on behind the curtains of the "Back of The Bus Chicago Kabuki Theater & Homicidal Mime 3 Card Monte Extravaganza" that's really what the fuck is going on...
Swishing robes, hand wringing, off key singing, banging gongs, knives surreptiously slid between ribs and the relentless chatter of the wind-up teeth local media aside...
The fuckery that is "The Chicago Way" has gone nationwide.
Did anyone catch the hilarious posturing behind all this "City of Chicago Settles Burge..." nonsense?
That old decaying bastard flint taylor gyrating his dentures about how he wishes he could have "put Daley on?"
STFU you old reeking & leaking whore... You took out your teeth, unhinged your jaw and sucked on a 33% contingency on 50+ million.
REAL JUSTICE being done
would've gone like THIS...
"Yah... Fuck a settlement. we want to go forward and put Doo-Doo Butter Daley on the stand about what was going on with this shit when he was State's Attorney and Mayor..."
God In Heaven!
We can only IMAGINE the number of rotten motherfuckers jumping out of windows, biting .38's in their law offices or being found running on air dangling from light fixtures...
As for the dirty pricks who were sprung by the yellow-pinky trotskyite, politically motivated Innocence Project?
One by one... In the back seat of busted luxury sedans they kept repeatedly stealing from themselves and each other... Dead in a pile of dope skins, dog-fart porn dvds and empty top shelf liquor bottles.
(Man! Imma get dat! Fool! You stealin' your own shit but fuckit, lemme bump dat bottle before you go!)
Heh... Watch for some hilariously kinky & hinky "Last Will & Testaments" to turn up on these bust-outs with the colorful cast of "usuals" as executors.
A LOT of the money involved in this WILL find it's way into the treasury of the usual suspects.
The Chicago Way...
Daley knew what was going on when he was state's attorney and having to testify about it just makes the payout bigger because it will make the jury even madder that the appropriate authority knew what was going on and chose to take no effective action, and probably actively aided in the coverup.
youre right, Im not a pimple on that fake cops ass. he was as bad or worse than the jagoffs he hunted. you cant selective follow the law nimrod. But why am I arguing with you? youre just another dead-ender...
7/26/2012 05:51:00 PM
There are no Burge victims. I only see offenders. I hope one of those murders takes his winnings and buys the house next door to you and 'dates' your daughter. That's apparently what it will take to wake you up.
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