Smollett II

Haven't seen much about that accusation by the president of the Police Board that he got beaten by cops with nightsticks during the first night of rioting. Not a single video has emerged, not a single eyewitness, probably because it's all made up, Smollett-style.

The head of the Police Board shouldn't be out at protests seeing as how he's supposed to be the head of an "impartial" panel sitting in judgement of cops. But then again, the head of the Police Board also shouldn't have been credibly accused of swindling the elderly either:

• Ghian Foreman is Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s handpicked Police Board president and a prominent Chicago real estate developer. In 2005, he borrowed $50,000 from Karyn Usher’s mother to help finance a Bronzeville condominium project. The units sold but the Usher family has waited 13 years to be paid. “He owes this money and I want him to pay this money,” Usher says.
  
  Usher says her family was close with Foreman’s, the reason her then 73-year-old mother, Ann Marie Usher, entered into a legal limited partnership and loaned Foreman the money. “Mother had known them all her life and so she, of course, wanted to help Ghian,” Usher says. Foreman rehabbed the four condos and sold three for a total of more than $1 million. By 2007, he owned the fourth and final unit free and clear.
  
  Usher’s attorney says Foreman could’ve paid off the debt. “There were proceeds from these sales,” says Phyllis Price. “[But} Ms. Usher got not a dime.” Foreman acquired more properties through the years. His investment groups bought the well-known Schulze Bakery building for $3.1 million and a shuttered Chicago Public School for $325,000. He did this even as Usher took legal action to get her money back.
  
  Ann Marie Usher died at age 84 without ever seeing her investment returned.

Rahm appointed him in 2018 knowing that he was being sued by investors.

Groot kept him knowing the same thing - probably because it made him controllable.