Life Plus Five
- Steve Mandell ranted and raved for half an hour.
He called the case against him “phantasmagorically ridiculous.”
And he said “even Helen Keller could see” that he’d been framed and that he’d never have followed through with his “hoax” plot.
Nobody in the packed courtroom had expected less from the Outfit-connected 64-year-old former Chicago cop, an incorrigible ham who loudly maintained his innocence even after he was convicted in February of concocting a gruesome plot to kidnap, torture, extort, kill and dismember a suburban businessman.
But his desperation was palpable. Everyone in the courtroom had seen the damning, secretly filmed FBI video of him chuckling inside the meat-cleaver and buzz saw-equipped torture chamber he built on the Northwest Side.
Hasn't been on the job for over 30 years, served 14 years in the last part of the previous century. Can't we at least call him "disgraced" or something besides "former?" It makes it sound like he served with some sort of distinction when in reality, he probably slipped through the cracks and psyche exams and was most likely clouted onto the job by some of the connected miscreants who slip through every so often.
Labels: corruption
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
22 Comments:
Steve Manning was his name, he changed it
Where is Rich Simon when you need him?
Buh-bye asshole.
No keeses for him
Steve Mandell and Ed Burke, two peas in a pod. Both were on the job fir nefarious reasons.
Pack yo shit.
"Today is the first day of the rest of your life."
He is a POS who should never be described as a former PO.
Through one of the Innocence Projects, this guys guilty verdict of murder was overturned and he was released. His photo used to grace the Northwestern Innocence Projects web page........but now it's gone. Nice job Tribune and Northwestern University. Funny how the Tribune leaves that out of their reports.
Every cop and boss hated this POS and all knew justice was served in his initial convictions. That being said, this man was the most politically connected and protected cop I had ever seen. He ran roughshod over bosses and did exactly as he pleased without fear.
I remember him from the seventies. He used to drink at Polish tavern on 45th and Pulaski sometimes. Always an asshole. You should have seen him when he lost at pool.
Hey Neil, stop slapping around the wife for a minute or two and write a rebuttal on this story as detailed on SCC.
Oh yeah, never mind.
To do that would require actual reporting and not yellow journalism. It would also require critical thinking on the part of the editor.
Was he fired?
He is a disgrace to our job. The way the media keeps hammering the police us ridiculous. I'm sure if shaquille o'neal, lou ferrigno, or Steven segal got in trouble the headlines would read "another police officer gets arrested/ in trouble" for some outlandish crime. I can see it now.. "Former chicago police officer lou ferrigno facing charges for battering a black man that asked politely for his phone, wallet, and watch causing riots all over chicago.
Why doesn't the paper write about the sergeant in 17 that threatened that threatened a police officer with a taser on camera in the station? Do you think the white shirts stick together and cover stuff up? He is back in 17 working after taking a short suspension. If a blue shirt did this we would be fired. A supervisor should be held to a higher standard than a patrolman. This man does not belong on the job. It's even worse that they send him back to 17. He is another one of "Christian's" boys just like former sgt lestner.
14 year CPD guy... amazing
Obvious question left unanswered...
Who da fuck was this clown's clout?
Somebody ran interference for him for a long time.
Lovey & Lovey's pal.
I wonder how many people he railroaded in his illustrious career.
He is very close with Loevy and Loevy
The same journalism that names every Chicago teenager shot as an honors student likewise reports anyone having spent a day on the job as a former officer. That's how the narrative works. On the writers' part, I'm sure it's reflexive by now.
Hey buddy I dropped my soap!
I worked one tour of duty with this fuckwad back in the 70's in 015. Eight hours of my life wasted with this jagoff. I remember his license plate was " 6 Man". He said he was the Six Million Dollar Man !
Anonymous said...
He is very close with Loevy and Loevy
12/12/2014 03:18:00 PM
Loevy and Loevy represented him in a case against the FBI and won a huge award for him. It was overturned. Loevy and Loevy might have gotten paid anyway, it was Federal Court.
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