Well Well Well....Lookie Here
- Former Chicago cop Steve Mandell took the stand in federal court Thursday to defend himself against charges he plotted multiple murders.
The risky move — rarely taken by defendants, especially in such a high stakes case — comes at the end of a two week trial at which jurors have heard how Mandell built a torture chamber on the Northwest Side, where he planned to extort, then kill a wealthy suburban businessman, and how he allegedly planned to kill an owner of Polekatz strip club and his wife.
But then this happened:
- Mandell said he did “a little bit” of the spying he was being paid for, but was conning Michael by claiming to be doing more work than he was being paid for.
He said he used the computer databases and other tools at the civil rights law firm Loevy & Loevy, where he was working as an unpaid process server, to research half a dozen targets Michael had asked him to keep tabs on.
That’s a potential embarrassment for the highly-regarded law firm, which represented Mandell in a 2005 wrongful conviction case against the FBI.
Really? Do tell. The Loevys helped him win a suit against the FBI that was later overturned. And the Loevys also have a habit of scoring large payouts in suits against the City. It certainly sounds like Mandell was hip deep in the shit that got him placed on Death Row once before.
Very interesting.
Very interesting.
Labels: scandals
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
73 Comments:
As asked in another thread, what's this guy been doing for the thirty years SINCE he was a p.o.?
Why isn't the media calling him a former - whatever - he did in the last three decades AFTER he left cpd?
I was a visiting unit in 009 and just couldn't stand all the complaining from female units. Stop making a fool of yourself, so what you had to do a report, big deal. I'm a female and I go with the flow. Stop all the gossiping and back stabbing. And to the male officer that stood there listening to the nonsense, grow a pair and be a good partner. Cause today those females are talking about your partner, tomorrow it will be you, never changes the pattern. At least you're in third watch, so stop your whining and remember all the criminals hate us, to be hating on each other, all we got is each other.
"...highly-regarded law firm..."
Oh, I don't know if I'd go that far.
O/T: Interesting read, what many of us have known for years
http://www.examiner.com/article/should-race-play-a-role-how-the-media-reports-crime
there is way more on the twitter page for the guy that wrote the article. it's all getting downplayed in the articles.
https://twitter.com/kimjnews
loevy comes up a dozen times and mandell claims he was given firm passwords to search people on a tracking site.
if no one investigates it would be a joke.
Any copper that "helped' the Loevy firm over the last decade or so might have something to worry about.
His real name is Steve Manning, and he spent many years in prison in Missouri. He was a suspect in several murders. While on the job, he was untouchable, because he was dating one of Rostenkowski's daughters.
The murky world of Chicago/Cook Co. politics, just got a bit more dingy.
Now will the Feds finally investigate lovey and his cohorts? Check their computer data bases. To see if any illegal means were used to get information? Nope! Lovey is a democratic donor, wonder with all the money they get easily in lawsuits from the city if someone perhaps a high placed official gets kickback?
And yet, not surprising.
"Highly regarded law firm" - Trust me, they have a staff of dimwits that work there. Any person of average intelligence can send these wannabes off track . . . squirrel! The only way they really make money is by settling cases with the equally dimwitted city corporate council. When the city was actually defending itself with the help of outside council nuisance suits by parasite firms dropped dramatically.
If anything, the law firm should lose their license to use those databases since they were used by an unauthorized person for an unauthorized purpose. I know a company like Lexis Nexis is very strict about how their databases are used.
Do you mean to say that scumbag lawyers might use their access to databases that others don't have, or in this case allow criminals to use that access, and do harm to others?
But they are the champions of civil rights and socialist principles! Say it ain't so. Say it ain't so.
Law enforcement has access to databases that are unavailable to civilians. Lawyers have access, but slightly limited compared to LE access. Licensed private detectives have access as well. The stuff is hard to get outside LE, but that's why they let a criminal use their access. He couldn't get it on his own. Nice that they allowed that to happen. Great letting a criminal serve process for scum lawyers.
As asked in another thread, what's this guy been doing for the thirty years SINCE he was a p.o.?
Why isn't the media calling him a former - whatever - he did in the last three decades AFTER he left cpd?
Well, for a while, he was in prison, on death row.
He's one smart slimeball. Clearly Anita should investigate him but as we all know she's afraid to take on anything that might make the democrat party look bad. After all, she's a dues paying member of that club of thieves. You wouldn't have to dig too far to see the collusion between the bottom feeder lawfirms and the Corp. counsels handling these police cases. And the private law firms that "represent" the city. Pay, pay, pay. NEVER go to trial.
And if she ever did investigate, she'd probably "lose" the file, like she did in the Vanecko case.
One big scam-- Loevy scams the city out of $$. The goof beats his conviction and sues--FBI uses a scam ( informants) to put him in prison because they are pissed.
Why Dosen't the papers describe Mandell as a associate of a Lovey And Lovey law firm since He has not been associated with CPD in 30 yrs? You know why!
Anonymous said...
I was a visiting unit in 009 and just couldn't stand all the complaining from female units. Stop making a fool of yourself, so what you had to do a report, big deal. I'm a female and I go with the flow. Stop all the gossiping and back stabbing. And to the male officer that stood there listening to the nonsense, grow a pair and be a good partner. Cause today those females are talking about your partner, tomorrow it will be you, never changes the pattern. At least you're in third watch, so stop your whining and remember all the criminals hate us, to be hating on each other, all we got is each other.
In my unit it's the male officers who are the whiners and backstabbers.
I"d love to see the Loevy Brothers go down on something like this....kind of like when Larry Bloom got caught.
Kind of like aiding and abetting a crime by providing facilities and equipment to do so
(OT) no more police in tax paying areas Gary system so!,
http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140220/mt-greenwood/supt-garry-mccarthy-defends-deploying-less-officers-low-crime-areas
Off Topic
What is this CNN program coming on all about Chicago on,06 March 2014, produced by Robert Redford. Rham is there saying how wonderful everything is, no crime great schools what is this nonsense. I gotta watch.
why isn't the media calling him "ex-loevy and levy process server steven man dell"??????
Use of these paid data bases have restrictions attached to them by the companies that own the information. If mandel used them for personal purposes he violated those restrictions and the companies can pull the use by the law firm and they should. Mandell or Manning was tied to other cops, both in Chicago and in willow springs who were members of a south suburbs burglary crew this going back to 1980.
Loevy and Loevy is now liable. Love it. Eat shit Loevy. Your firm is the enemy of America.
OT --
Slap on wrist, free plane home for the hooked-up
MEL REYNOLDS FINED $100, ORDERED DEPORTED FROM ZIMBABWE
"A Zimbabwean court on Friday ordered the deportation of former Illinois congressman Mel Reynolds after he pleaded guilty to staying in the southern African country on an expired visa.
"Harare magistrate Tendai Mahwe fined Reynolds $100 or five days in prison for the visa misdemeanor..."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-mel-reynolds-zimbabwe-20140221,0,5873041,full.story
Did I say "hooked-up?" "Reynolds was working with Chicago powerbroker Elzie Higginbottom on potential business pursuits in Zimbabwe...When Higginbottom led a delegation of Chicago businesspeople to Zimbabwe in November 2011, Reynolds acted as Higginbottom’s spokesperson."
OBAMA FUNDRAISER DIGS FOR ZIMBABWE BUSINESS DEALS
28 Jun 2013
"A major Chicago fundraiser for United States President Barack Obama has been schmoozing senior Zanu-PF figures, including President Robert Mugabe, in the hope of winning business deals from the Zimbabwe government.
"In return...senior Zimbabwean security force members have been looking to the fundraiser, real-estate tycoon Elzie Higginbottom, to help the country to wriggle off the hook of targeted US sanctions.
"Internal Zanu-PF documents...suggest that the Zimbabwean military was keen to enter into negotiations with Higginbottom to form a joint-venture diamond mining company in 2011.
"Higginbottom's vast property portfolio has been “conservatively" valued at $200-million by the Chicago Tribune. Campaign finance records indicate that he and his wife contributed $400 000 to Obama's campaign war chest between 2008 and 2012 and donated generously to both Obama inaugurations.
"Higginbottom's largesse has catapulted him into a super-category of party political funders in the US popularly referred to as “bundlers."
"Zimbabwe security forces apparently saw the participation of Americans in the Chiadzwa diamond fields near Marange as key to avoiding further action by a “hostile" US government to restrict the Zimbabwe diamond trade."
http://mg.co.za/article/2013-06-27-00-obama-fundraiser-digs-for-deals
...and there you have it.
(OT) read this article about rahm the police pension get ready to be screwed!
http://www.esquire.com/_mobile/features/rahm-emanuel-interview-0314
The firm's success has to be evaluated in light of their opposition
O/T: Interesting read, what many of us have known for years
http://www.examiner.com/article/should-race-play-a-role-how-the-media-reports-crime
2/21/2014 01:10:00 AM
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It was an awesome read. Print it and give it to all Obama supporters. All liars.
what a bunch of BS they keep calling this guy the former Chicago Cop like he just left last week.....
He is a rotten prick. Hope he gets 100 years.
It ia a shame this did not become well known years ago.
OT......24th district team policing is a joke. Even the bosses can't stand all the nonsense. Hope they scrap it real soon.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
As asked in another thread, what's this guy been doing for the thirty years SINCE he was a p.o.?
Why isn't the media calling him a former - whatever - he did in the last three decades AFTER he left cpd?
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Well, for a while, he was in prison, on death row.
2/21/2014 08:37:00 AM
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That's part of my point. They make it sound like he was on the job until very recently.
Didn't this goof get grabbed by I.A.D. back when he was a cop? He was sitting outside some jewelry store while a couple of other cops were inside stealing?
(OT ) and again more money found millions for bs lawsuits but no money for pension obligations! Rahm is giving away all the taxpayers money!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-2-brothers-sister-awarded-37-million-in-police-abuse-case-20140221,0,4205463.story
Couldn't agree more with the Trainwreck of Team Policing in 024. To take a system that has functioned to the best of its capabilities and scrap it for an unproven experiment is not only foolish but dangerous for both the citizens and the officers. The officers have tried to make it work and only the worst winter in history have stopped more tragedies like the multiple shooting at Pratt/Clark. The officers are in full C.Y.A. a nd it's a matter of time before something terrible happens.
OT: Sergeants back pay for DSS in today. A lot of smiling sergeants today.
Its accurint/nexus lexus the system loevys use. The computer system they use.
All someone has to do is beef and attach copy of quote to the email.
Accurint for Legal Professionals
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Didn't Rich Aguilar and the FOP ask 024,012 if they wanted squad policing?
Mandell is guilty! (Who'd he piss of in The Machine to allow justice to prevail?)
Old lawyer here. Loevy & Loevy? A/K/A Dowe Cheatem and How? Hope they get disbarred. I struggle to make a living, just like LEOs, and I have to worry about the actions of these folks besmirching my profession? **** them!
Mandell/Manning was also the top suspect in the murder of his own father, a real piece of crap that should be flushed for life....
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That's part of my point. They make it sound like he was on the job until very recently.
2/21/2014 04:36:00 PM
Like Ed Fucking Burke. He was the police for 15 minutes 50 years ago in a phone call job his father got him and he is called "former police officer." I guarantee this, there is no one in IDOC pissed off at Ed Burke for putting them there.
His real name is Steve Manning, and he spent many years in prison in Missouri. He was a suspect in several murders. While on the job, he was untouchable, because he was dating one of Rostenkowski's daughters.
You idiot he was fired! How is that untouchable?
One big scam-- Loevy scams the city out of $$. The goof beats his conviction and sues--FBI uses a scam ( informants) to put him in prison because they are pissed.
2/21/2014 09:02:00 AM
Scam the city? Hardly. They are allowed to sue the city. In turn Im sure money is funneled back as "donations" to the chosen ones! All on the tax payers dime!
OT: Interesting outcome in the Detroit bancruptcy case. Officers are getting 70% of their pensions and retirees are getting 90%, while the other workers are only getting 33%. All of this to save the city from having to sell their artwork.
Guilty..........
OT: Detroit pension fix
http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/21/news/economy/detroit-bankruptcy-pension-cuts/index.html
"Couldn't agree more with the Train wreck of Team Policing in 024. "
The system is implemented by Compstat to minimalize time-due use, furloughs, and RDO.
It's the patrol division's version of the DSS.
Compstat cant get around the union agreement, so they reorganize and rename positions.
Your answer to them. Don't do it.
There is NOTHING that they can do except yell at you.
They can't write you up and they can't sparr you.
Just ignore it.
...and there you have it.
2/21/2014 10:40:00 AM
Did you really believe that socialists would let one of their pedophiles do time? Slap on the wrist to him and a hack of the machete to the rest.
Keep up that left wing philosophy. It's working wonders.
Anonymous said...
His real name is Steve Manning, and he spent many years in prison in Missouri. He was a suspect in several murders. While on the job, he was untouchable, because he was dating one of Rostenkowski's daughters.
You idiot he was fired! How is that untouchable?
2/21/2014 10:44:00 PM
Well, he was untouchable right up until the point where he was fired, then he no longer was untouchable.
I wonder which Rostenkowski daughter, Dawn perhaps?
How was he fired? He was fired, only after many years of being protected, when his criminal conduct, could no longer be ignored. If you were around back then, you would understand that. Now go get your shine box! Moron!
To all bitching about Manning constantly being referred to as "ex-CPD', it's very simple. Journalism 101 teaches every story must have a "hook". If the story is written as some bust out wiseguy wannabe trying to strongarm his way into a strip club, not many care. Unless you patronize that strip club. And an editor might just decide the story doesn't make the cut. However, if the same story involves an EX CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER, even if he only did one day on the job, lots of people tune in, if only to see what the corrupt coppers are up to now. That story runs daily.
Anonymous said...
Didn't this goof get grabbed by I.A.D. back when he was a cop? He was sitting outside some jewelry store while a couple of other cops were inside stealing?
2/21/2014 04:43:00 PM
No, that was a different Chicago police officer. His partner ( they worked in 012 at the time) allegedly was inside the jewelry store at the time and got away. IAD screwed this up royally.
The day Blago was being sentenced, I happened to be near the Judge's courtroom. I think it was Zagel's. As a citizen, I was in the area for some reason; heard about the sentencing as I saw the line in to the courtroom, so I decided to que-up in line to hear the sentencing. In front of me was this guy who's appearance really struck me. I couldn't take my eyes off the guy, because he just looked like the classic, stereotypical, scumbag lawyer. The glasses, the "Call Sal" suit, that haven't taken a bath in a few weeks glow. The guy should of been in Hollywood playing that typecast. He looked the real deal. He was the real deal. In line he's waving and shaking hands with connected looking types. I asked the person standing next to me, "Do you happen to know who that guy is?", as I pointed to the most perfect specimen of a douchebag, looking lawyer I'd ever seen. The person next to me in line replied, "He's a lawyer for Lovey & Lovey." I broke out laughing. I'd would have never known who the hell L&L was & what they were all about if it wasn't for reading about them here. It was just too hilarious that this slimeball looking guy in line was a lawyer for Lovey & Lovey. It codified that what I read about L&L here was probably accurate.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
OT: Interesting outcome in the Detroit bancruptcy case. Officers are getting 70% of their pensions and retirees are getting 90%, while the other workers are only getting 33%. All of this to save the city from having to sell their artwork.
2/21/2014 11:15:00 PM
Other workers are not getting 33%. Reread it.
No, fop did not ask anyone's input because the affected districts were told this is what you're doing. Fop wasn't initially advised.
"Didn't this goof get grabbed by I.A.D. back when he was a cop? He was sitting outside some jewelry store while a couple of other cops were inside stealing?
2/21/2014 04:43:00 PM"
He was designated lookout by Chief Hanhardt
Steve Mandell, AKA Steve Manning lived in the 13th district at Rice and Wolcott, he was a bad cop from day one, running with all the wannabees, he hung in Smith Park and always beefed on the coppers that were messing with the dope dealers, Got caught sitting in his car with a known burglar after he got fired casing a jewelry store on Taylor St. Tried very hard to get close to the Grand Ave. Crew but didn't succeed. He is rotten to the core and married some older women probably bilking her out of everything, His father was found dead in the trunk of his car years back up in Vernon Hills at the shopping mall. Mother died very strangely also. Well Loevy didn't do much for him this time. Nice work FBI.
Like Ed Fucking Burke. He was the police for 15 minutes 50 years ago in a phone call job his father got him and he is called "former police officer."
Thats funny. Just want to clarify it's not Alderman Ed Burke. He wouldn't hurt another copper if his life depended on it!
According to an old Dailey Herald article I found on the internet, Mandell and a Chicago cop named William Sorlis were about to go to trial for 100,000 in jewels theft. This was in 1986.
Anonymous said...
Like Ed Fucking Burke. He was the police for 15 minutes 50 years ago in a phone call job his father got him and he is called "former police officer."
Thats funny. Just want to clarify it's not Alderman Ed Burke. He wouldn't hurt another copper if his life depended on it!
2/22/2014 03:22:00 PM
He just won't pay their IOD bills until they go to a collection agency. Unless he gets the phone call. That's not hurting a copper?
http://galleries.apps.chicagotribune.com/chi-140103-dibs-season-pictures/
LOL Check out the dibs pics especially the one with the fop sticker on the car above the city sticker Only in Shitcago Now I dare Ya to Park there
Thats funny. Just want to clarify it's not Alderman Ed Burke. He wouldn't hurt another copper if his life depended on it!
>>>That's because he hires retired cops back to the city pay roll Some are now back on the FLOP Ballot too Just keep suckin down the city money Ask Dean's Canerryvile brother
The day Blago was being sentenced, I happened to be near the Judge's courtroom.
Was Schauf there as sgt at arms
Anonymous said...
Its accurint/nexus lexus the system loevys use. The computer system they use.
All someone has to do is beef and attach copy of quote to the email.
Accurint for Legal Professionals
Hours: Monday through Friday 8am-6pm Eastern Time
1.800.227.9597, ext. 52151
______________________________________________
It was actually a different service. Was in the Sun-times reporters twitter. Says it was called "Locate Plus." I'm sure it's the same rules though.
http://locateplus.com/
Really hope someone calls them out on this. Somebody should make sure this doesn't whither and die quietly.
Freedom in Ukrain There's hope for Shitcago
Detroit All of this to save the city from having to sell their artwork
Shitcago's art work was mandated by Daley =sculptures but who is going to buy that stuff
$$$$$$ Right sell the Picasso and save our pensions
Anonymous said...
His real name is Steve Manning, and he spent many years in prison in Missouri. He was a suspect in several murders. While on the job, he was untouchable, because he was dating one of Rostenkowski's daughters.
You idiot he was fired! How is that untouchable?
2/21/2014 10:44:00 PM
Tribune said he resigned. 1983. On the verge of being fired no doubt, after one of his convictions.
Anonymous said...
Like Ed Fucking Burke. He was the police for 15 minutes 50 years ago in a phone call job his father got him and he is called "former police officer."
Thats funny. Just want to clarify it's not Alderman Ed Burke. He wouldn't hurt another copper if his life depended on it!
2/22/2014 03:22:00 PM
He just won't pay their IOD bills until they go to a collection agency. Unless he gets the phone call. That's not hurting a copper?
2/22/2014 07:35:00 PM
Yep - Did major damage to my credit rating because of unpaid duty-related medical bills. I had to write notes to explain them in order to get a mortgage and the bank guy told me they see it a lot on applications from police.
Anonymous said...
According to an old Dailey Herald article I found on the internet, Mandell and a Chicago cop named William Sorlis were about to go to trial for 100,000 in jewels theft. This was in 1986.
2/22/2014 07:03:00 PM
both part of a working crew that included other cops, both city and suburban. Jewel thieves
Looks like they aren't getting as much of a free pass over at Loevy this time around
http://www.suntimes.com/25830974-418/cops-words-in-torture-chamber-recording-could-hurt-familys-lawsuit.html
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