60 Days

It must be nice to be a Daley relative:

• Nine years, nine months and five days after he punched David Koschman in the face and ran away, Richard J. “R.J.” Vanecko — a nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley — stood before a judge and admitted he was guilty of causing Koschman’s death.
  
  Judge Maureen P. McIntye accepted Vanecko’s guilty plea and ordered him to spend 60 days in jail, followed by 60 days of home confinement with electronic monitoring.
  
  The judge also gave Vanecko the maximum 30 months of probation and ordered him to apologize to Koschman’s mother Nanci Koschman and pay her restitution of $20,000.

Just for comparison purposes, Cozzi did four years for slapping a drunk who was spitting on him and hospital personnel, and that was after he had already served a lengthy suspension, two years of court ordered probation and apologized in open court for his misbehavior.

Webb is pushing to make his entire investigation public while repeatedly stating he will not be pursuing any additional charges against anyone involved. That would include everyone from the States Attorney and Superintendent on down who claimed for years that there was no basis for charges - charges which Vanecko has just cut a deal for. Also, no charges for the witnesses who lied and obfuscated for years to protect their political family.

So this will fade into the background, forgotten by all involved aside from Koschman's mother. The missing file, the failure of the system, the desperation to conceal who else might have been present at the time who has a history of getting drunk, beating people and being covered for time and time again, and whose name isn't "Vanecko.

Sad.