Scandals Abound

As we related a few weeks ago, the PPP scandal is percolating and should ensnare a bunch of connected exempt members. Looks like the low-hanging people are getting picked off:

• Two former Chicago police officers have been charged with bilking federal Paycheck Protection Program coronavirus pandemic relief programs out of more than $2 million.

  Torrey Price and Aaron Price were indicted on federal fraud charges unsealed Aug. 8.

  Torrey Price, 55, was a member of the Chicago Police Department for 23 years. He had worked in the Morgan Park district and retired July 15, according to law enforcement sources. 

  Aaron Price, 61, was a Chicago police officer who retired in 2017 after almost 18 years with the department, a source said.

Old enough to have known better, that's for sure. Are they going to go higher?

But this....this one makes us want to throw up:

• A Chicago police officer who was charged with sexually abusing a minor in suburban Norridge earlier this year was charged Friday with a host of new felonies involving three victims.

  Judge Barbara Dawkins held David P. Deleon, 30, of Dunning without bail after prosecutors laid out the new allegations.

  Norridge police obtained a search warrant for Deleon’s phone while investigating the earlier allegations. They turned the matter over to the Cook County sheriff’s police upon finding evidence of “multiple crimes against children,” according to the state’s written proffer of the allegations made Friday.

According to the CWB reporting linked above and the Tribune article, this piece of garbage was active across the northwest side and surrounding suburbs for years. Shorteyes has been with the Department for six years, so around the time that background checks were falling apart. Did he slip through the system or what?