Are You Fucking Kidding?
- When the mother of former Chicago Police Cmdr. Kenneth Johnson died in 1994, she left behind a bank account she shared with her son — the one where her monthly Social Security benefits landed.
The one Johnson described in court Tuesday as “the sword of Damocles.”
Rather than tell the Social Security Administration his mother had died, Johnson let the money flow until 2017. He spent it on hotels and airfare. He rose quickly through the ranks of the Chicago Police Department, committing a federal crime every month.
In total, Johnson stole $363,064. But U.S. District Judge Manish Shah refused to send Johnson to prison Tuesday, instead sentencing him to two years of probation that will include six months of community confinement.
Shah did so after Johnson told him “I am replete with misery and shame” — and after his attorney said Johnson feared losing his job with the CPD if he ever confessed the theft. Johnson called it “the sword of Damocles that has been over my head for 23 years.”
So just to summarize:
- commit a felony, every month, for twenty-three years
- pocket over $363,000 and spend everything except fifty-nine cents
- not a single penny of interest charged for the taxpayer funds stolen
And he walks? What kind of lesson is this? He got what amounted to an interest free loan, vacationed on it, purchased cars and clothes on it, wined and dined on it. And he doesn't spend even a weekend in prison?
Blago never saw a dime and he got fourteen years.
Blago never saw a dime and he got fourteen years.
Labels: corruption, un-fucking-fucking-believable
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
99 Comments:
A Good Lawyer Know's the Law, A Great Lawyer Know's the Judge,Glad I Retired, Criminal Justice is a Joke.
I’d say a phone call was made. Anyone else, especially a cop who intentionally committed a continual crime for so many years, would have received jail time plus repayment.
Its that Privilege thing my friends.You got to be born with it to benefit from it.
I read another article that said this deal was already set in stone one month ago. Would that indicate that KJ is snitching...cooperating with the feds? He better be, because there is something extremely fishy about this entire situation. The drunken lying cheating former superintendent protected KJ by giving him the heads up to retire before KJ got arrested. Someone better be connecting the dots and expose the corruption within CPD exempt ranks.
where is the IRS on this he owes them taxes on all the money he did not report plus interest and penalties. Come on Trump get this turd.
Mom is Dead.
Oh....wait a minute.
What BULLSHIT!
A PO gets 18 months inside for taking $10G to steer crashes to lawyers.
Johnson committed probably an easy 50 felonies and get no jail time.
Calling Chuck Goudie, calling Chuck Goudie!!! He’s a story that you might want to follow up on, CPD KJ steals $360k over 23 years and gets probation! Tell the name of the federal judge over and over to John and Jane Q. Viewer. Let’s them know this is what happens in this great state of Illinois. Where the connected go scott free and let the feeble man (blue shirt) be punished and sent to prison. What a JOKE. When will this end....oh wait....it’s the chitown way
Absolutely ridiculous! Where are the social justice warriors? This is one they should protest. I guess the reverands and community leaders didn't give their blessing to be upset. Color does matter. As long as your shirt is white you'll be ok. The blue shirts get thrown to the wolves
Wow.
Restitution ? Don’t tell me he doesn’t pay any of the stolen funds back. He’s still getting a pension over 100k a year.
hoping somebody steps up to the plate for a re-sentencing.
remember that fucker vrdolyak?
These judges are fucking useless and all need to go!!! Start voting them out. What a joke and disgrace this Crooked County system is. This judicial system shows that CRIME does pay!!!!
Good point, but Blago interfered with the Madigan way which interrupted a chosen one to be the next U.S Senator. You don't do that and not spend time in prison to think about it.
So unbelievable! I hate this place! No justice! I guess who really cares! I can’t wait to get out of here! No one gives a shit!
I am replete with astonishment that the judge didn't send ole boy to the shithouse for a tour of duty. Only in chicago, the most corrupt cesspool in the northern hemisphere.
This man stole money from every honest American
taxpayer, the rightfully disabled, the infirm, people
who are retarded and can't provide for themselves.
And you let him POLICE the public at large? The Judge
needs to be investigated. This man clearly didn't need
the money for survival. The 59 cents. That just burns
me up. A 23 year, month-by-month felon. And some
people get their lives ruined on one felony.
God don't like uneven scales.
That funeral home operator needs to have his license
pulled. Anybody bother to check HIS bank accounts?
Fucking criminal. Capone lives on to this very fucking day.
No wonder the "Chicago Way" is a quadruple entendres.
Fucking Sick-Sick Town.
We'll just call the new guy "Charlie Blow."
He just decided he couldn't do the job for the money agreed
upon.
I hold Lightfoot responsible for his early departure.
She "undersold" the job at hand. Charlie thought it was a
small fortune until he realized he was snookered by a clever
little chick from a no-name town in Ohio.
Man, what a fucking story. This is one to retire on, but as
Hannity says "Journalism is dead."
(EXCEPT FOR SCC)
CHARLIE! WAKE THE FUCK UP!
--Blago never saw a dime and he got fourteen years.--
Skinny is going to run for Governor when JB Pritzker has a heart attack then? He is ahead of the game already...
"And he walks? What kind of lesson is this? "
Vote Democrat. The greatest lesson of all.
(vomit in mouth occurs).
From the story:
Johnson will likely spend his period of community confinement in a halfway house, though those details were not clear Tuesday. Michael Clancy, Johnson’s defense attorney, told reporters after court that Johnson had expected the judge to give him jail time, instead. The judge also ordered Johnson to pay the full $363,064 in restitution.
HE HAS TO PAY BACK THE MONEY. That is what matters 'most' for resolution of this ill. Yes, no interest but he at least has to pay it back.
What happen to the body? Why didn’t the funeral home notify S.S ?. Was the fix in there also? Who will investigate and will they be finds or lost there state license enquiring minds want to know. Sounds like the old wagon body scandal.
Nice sentence judge! Ought to add you to the ranks of cartoon villains!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Judges
These cook county judges are all crooks.
Blago + Obama’s name = 14 years imprisonment.
Blago - Obama’s name = two or more terms in office, and certainly no jail time.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article237935669.html
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/crime/fl-reg-social-security-fraud-sentenced-20180405-story.html
Judge was an Obama appointee, naturally.
Look at that white privilege. Oh wait.
No restitution? Take a few thousand from his pension check every month.
absolute crime letting this scumbag walk away from this. does he have to pay it back?
this was federal court so we don't get to vote the judges in or out?
what a fucked up system.....
He got probation because he's become a cheese eating rat..Is that why Fat Ed has hired a criminal defense attorney?
Relatively few consequences for bad behavior will only cause the bad behavior to repeat but it will worsen!
trump will never waste his time trying to drain "our" swamp...
Federal crime and no time???
Obama appointed Judge???
welcome to hell...run by DemocrRATS.
https://youtu.be/LqV0BOxid90
So steal over a quarter of a million dollars over a twenty year period and NOTHING?
did anyone really think this was going to end with jail time?
Total lost all faith in the justice system and law.
Should of joined CPD and became a criminal, it pays well.
Can't wait to move out of this corrupt state and stop paying for pension for CROOKS!
Said it earlier, clout got him off, just like it rose him up the ranks in the department. Sad
What a joke, the poor sap that made 10k from tow trucks in in prison, the clouted white shirt walks. Clout is King!
It is Chicago values. That is what we are told over and over and over. Oh by the way...DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH...
02:44
It was a federal crime. A federal judge. They're not voted in!
You can't make this shit up, no one would believe it if you tried.
Now John Q Public will think and say that the Cops are all crooks and can get away with anything.
This is not good for anyone who wares the taxi hat'
Clout is a beautiful thing if you have it.
The blue jay sings
Some people don't have a steady job for 23 years
thru no fault of their own. Here, you had a greedy,
dishonest 'public servant' who was not satisfied with a check
every 2 weeks: instead he rode the back of the taxpayers for
276 checks. And 59 cents left? It's clear this was a calculated
scheme for blow money, not I need to eat money. This Judge
is blind. And stupid. Johnson uses one fancy word in his
defense and a skilled attorney falls for that? Sorry. Something
bigger going on here. Johnson would have stole more if he
could. Crooks will always find a way.
Mogadishu by the lake. And you expected equal justice in Chicago?
There is plenty of blame to go around. Start with government incompetence at the Social Security Administration (SSA) for continuing to send the checks. Next, as 12/04/2019 @ 3:53 am says, the funeral director is supposed to inform the SSA of the death. Throw in the county that issued the death certificate for not informing the SSA. Hell, I don't blame sonny boy. You know damn well you would do the same thing, at least for a month or three. Yet another example of government doing what it does best: Fucking up and pissing away money.
You know what the fucking crime is?
Don Cherry getting canned over vague comments about
immigrants. I'm not a hockey fan or pro-Canadian. In fact,
that's the very first time I heard of him. Somebody got
jealous because he dressed flashy and was making a ton
of money (honestly) and continued to work as an elderly
man. Here, you have a guy who was too lazy to work and
decided he was entitled to the money.
The funeral home asks you for the SS#. If you say you
don't know it, they will look it up, just call S.S. Somebody
was paid off here and no longer deserves to be in the
funeral profession.
Apparently it takes a Stanford-educated lawyer to play the fool.
Great job defending what's left of our society, Judge Shah.
Do you really think that a guy who steals for 23 years conducted himself in an exemplary way in all other respects? This is just what he got caught for.
Embezzlers. They all claim a gambling addiction, a bad
childhood and a need for expensive vacations, cars, ect.
The money is blown essentially. No blood out of a turnip.
This man should clean toilets to work off this theft.
This is completely nauseating.
He absolutely should’ve gotten some amount of jail time.
Manish Shah appointed by guess who? OBAMA. How’s that for “in your face”?
This is Ludicrous, not only was he tipped off and got the hell out before the charges were brought. He gets not jail time and keeps his pension. YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP!!!
laughing all the way to the bank! Jack!
The FIX was in!
Ole skinny should have been sent to the joint, AND ordered restitution to the S/S fund via a fine of $360K PLUS INTEREST!
Remember this judge’s name.......another gross miscarriage of justice to an “entitled piece of shit” who brought dishonor
to our profession......a friggin COMMANDER no less.......for $1,305.00 a month......for 23 years.......
All the while earning UNEARNED big paychecks via the MERIT system......a triple merit “entitled piece of shit”....
The community must be SO proud of him.........
What a fuck'n JOKE!
#FreeBlago
I would have him dig the next 100 graves of the elderly that have nothing.cool hand luke kinda thing.and then 5-10 downstate.
Remember, most Federal Judges are democrat political hacks. No different from the bevy of "buyable" crooked judges at 26th st. Like all of them, this judge didn't get his job by taking a test. He got it because phone calls were made.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Restitution ? Don’t tell me he doesn’t pay any of the stolen funds back. He’s still getting a pension over 100k a year.
12/04/2019 02:06:00 AM
You know how the government works. He is on a plan. $100 a month
Not going to prison for this scam seems to be a common outcome. Sadly, KJ probably didn’t have to snitch.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/02/feds-target-social-security-scammers-living-off-dead-relatives/3841975002/
“ to the chagrin of prosecutors, not everyone is going to prison for this crime. Of the 31 closed cases, only seven defendants got prison sentences – the longest one being three years.”
Charlie , one week and younrewarded a crooked Commander with a position as Inspector , that position should be assigned to Sergeants .
This guy never followed the rules of CPD
Bad/Good week for Johnsons.
Yes, well the G gives you a break like this only when they flip you, he will now be wearing a wire, toucan bet on it. He gets probation for stealing and Blago gets 14 years for wishing to get something.
The Fed Judge is an obama appointment, long connected to the Chicago Way. Bodes well for Dorthief Brown should the Fed ever get around to her many thieving corruption schemes.
A shakedown is a shakedown. The Blago squeeze thing [with Gov Pritzker, the Attorney General spot is open] had millions in potential money grabs, another example was the Miriam Santos, “belly-up [some campaign donations that never came] wiretap comment.
Poor old Other Johnson.
I was thinking maybe Dart or JBPignutz could have given him a job to work off that SS repay debt, but there was no mention of restitution.
Does this mean his lawyer was stiffed too?
So what, does his probation house Arrest at the gubmint sponsored Salvation Army B&B (JJJr-Ryan suite?) only forbids him to engage in anymore family related Social Security check fraud ?
And another kick in the taxpayer nut sack is that if Dart or other gubmint agency doesn’t give him a overpaid job, he’ll get to soak the gubmint for his own share of entitlements.
Obama appointee.
Country is fucked.
KJ better be the best snitch since the Blabbering Burglar in Summerdale.
Had a case of an accountant on Harlem years ago who was forging checks of her employer (bad gambler she was). She admitted to me forging couple of the checks. Probably in the $100k range all-in-all. Working woman, in her 50's - completely legit aside from this. Last I heard the state was offering her 10 years.
... and so it goes ...
Probably has agreed to rat out others in exchange for a lenient sentence. I wonder how many dirty cops he knows. Could be interesting to watch the perp walks in the next few months.
Blago angered the wrong people. This guy simply stole from taxpayers and got caught.
The punishments fit the crimes as the political system sees them.
What is community confinement? Is it living next to Jesse Jackson or one of the other revruns? Inquiring minds want to know?
And Bagoivich gets 14 years, this CLOWN takes dead mom's social security money and walks away. UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
I hope and believe karma is going to whack this asswipe hard someday.
He took $500 out of his dead Mom’s account from the ATM in 007 th District.
I guess the $160 K he was making just wasn’t enough.
Perhaps the clout with Gayle Sayers helped
Think about this judge's sentence the next time you think the state and county authorities are useless and that nothing happens in law enforcement unless the feds take the case.
Judge is an Obama appointee, if you needed to be told. A "former federal prosecutor."
Any bets the judge was a Hillary supporter and voter. Any bets the judge lives in an all white city/town/village. So much for blacks are given harsher prison sentences then whites. Just like Blago did not take one dime and got 14 years. Jackson Jr. and wife steal almost 1 million dollars and get just 2 yrs and 1 yr at different times (for the children) Sentenced by another Hillary supporter
The judge on Kenneth Johnson's case was Manish Shah, an former U.S. Attorney appointed by Barack Obama.
Shah is a University of Chicago grad, and friends with a lot of Hyde Park big shots.
Scuttlebutt is Johnson, who was in charge of the Obama house security during Barack's term, was the beneficiary of a favor from the Obama camp.
Hence, the light sentence, as Shah won't bite the hand that fed him.
Kenneth Johnson makes no secret of this, as his family is juiced up, and he kept a signed autographed picture of him and Barack Obama prominently displayed in his former offices.
Makes you wonder if a Obama lawyer reached out to the judge, a la Jussie Smollett?
"Replete"
I'm gonna look that up.
No, don't bother. Just say it.
Federal judges are not elected by the people, they are nominated by the state's senators.
Government pension plans should have a provision that prohibits a pension from increasing after the date that a crime is committed, not when it is discovered or prosecuted. The current policy allows the criminal to amass huge pension increases if he or she is slick enough to hide their crimes -- one might think that law enforcement would have an edge in this concealment.
Son = scumbag, Hopefully his mother can finally Rest In Peace.
He's good to go with his retired start and ID. Last I checked federal convictions don't show up when running a cqh through leads. He's gonna have a nice retirement in Vegas or Florida I'm sure
He's good to go with his retired star and ID. Last I checked federal convictions don't show up when running a cqh through leads. He's gonna have a nice retirement in Vegas or Florida I'm sure
A police officer and an exempt rank.
So much for being held to a higher standard.
Just because you did it,doesn’t make you guilty,maing
Unbelievable! He must be snitching up a storm to only get probation.
But Blago couldn’t keep his mouth shut. He even pissed off the judge who sentenced him. Silence is Golden!
Does anyone have a copy of the indictment to see exactly what he was charged with. It would make an interesting post to see exactly what they hit him with.
I agree with most of what you said, but you are an idiot's dumber brother if you assert and believe that "Blago never saw a dime"
Does anyone have a copy of the indictment to see exactly what he was charged with. It would make an interesting post to see exactly what they hit him with.
This case has no indictment. The defendant waived his constitutional right to indictment. The government charged via information.
yea, Be The Change. uhhh-huuuhhh
What a piece of shit, fuck you judge.
Hopefully the IRS will smack him good. Betting taxes weren’t paid on the massive illicit income.
Dude shoplifts gets time
This thief stealing from elderly receives probation
Might be an informant for Feds
Federal judges are nominated by the US President and then confirmed via majority vote (greater than 50%) by the US Senate. Republicans hold a small majority in the US Senate. Trump and the Republican majority US Senate have been busy nominating and appointing federal judges including US Supreme Court judges. To become a federal judge, one has to have mega political clout b/c your name has to show up on the US President’s desk who ultimately nominates you. Guess Shah owed someone big time. By the way, federal judges are appointed for life. Definitely don’t want hacks getting appointed.
Each payment would have been a felony and he get Probation. Wow this is o wrong
Anonymous said...
There is plenty of blame to go around. Start with government incompetence at the Social Security Administration (SSA) for continuing to send the checks. Next, as 12/04/2019 @ 3:53 am says, the funeral director is supposed to inform the SSA of the death. Throw in the county that issued the death certificate for not informing the SSA. Hell, I don't blame sonny boy. You know damn well you would do the same thing, at least for a month or three. Yet another example of government doing what it does best: Fucking up and pissing away money.
12/04/2019 08:48:00 AM
Makes you wonder how many other bassholes are drawing free checks based on dead relatives.
Welcome to America, Have no faith in the government you are working for.Because it is not looking out for you or the rest of the working citizens. Most politicians and many public servants and social workers rely on the societal dysfunction of the worthless and criminal underclass to even have a job to suck money off the system to do so..
FUGGEDABOUTIT, thinking about it will just make you more jaded
Justice? For the connected? Ha Ha Ha Ha
last i heard the irs charges 25% penalty and 20% interest on tax fraud. i think the irs would have to go after him seperately. if they charged him thusly and prevailed the fines and interest over 20 years would be huge. thats why i dont cheat on MY taxes. will this be like the juicy episode where the french actor sends fake anthrax to himself and the feds ignore it? those fines and interest are there to scare you and insure compliance. no penalty its just a 360k no interst loan recieved over 20 years and repaid over 20 years. not very scary in my book. sign me up i could use that kinda dough working in my portfolio and six months in a halfway house with cable, a.c. and three hots and a cot doesnt sound bad. i doubt that money will ever be repaid, and like he did with the s.s. checks, he will spend or hide every dime of his pension so his estate will be zero when he dies. thanks obama, the best president ever. reward bad behavior get more of it indeed. no more white privledge for me, where do you sign up for nobel?
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