Owed Overtime

So this judgement is out there somewhere, but the City refused to pay:

• Chicago Police Department officers and supervisors are owed about $165 million because the city miscalculated the overtime they were paid for over a decade, federal court records show from a case filed on behalf of the police .

  More than two years have passed since a federal judge ruled in favor of the two plaintiffs — a former police union officer and a CPD sergeant — in the 2015 overtime case filed in Chicago.

  But the city and the attorneys who filed the case continue to argue in federal court over how to calculate the amount owed to cops affected by the overtime issues, court filings show.

  In a recent filing in US District Court, the plaintiffs’ attorneys said the original estimate of the sum owed to the police officers was approximately $52.1 million. But they said in the Dec. 8 filing that the final bill had skyrocketed over time to $164,735,255 while “at least $862,889 a month in damages continues to accrue.”

The article is from March, which is while we were on hiatus. It quotes two of our critics (Paul Geiger Geiger Geiger who threatened us with legal action at one point and Bill Dougherty, a useless FOP blob who denigrated the blog in the newsletter and at meetings). But hey, water under the bridge, right?

Anyway, the City is dragging their feet, appealing the un-appealable, scheduling and then refusing to deliberate in good faith, etc. Geiger Geiger Geiger has asked for hard deadlines from the judge to force this issue but the article is old and hasn't been updated.

So how about liens? Could the plaintiffs file liens against the city? We recall an incident years ago in which a Canadian printer was stiffed by the old USSR for $26K. In response, he had the Toronto police seize a 120-meter Soviet cargo ship worth a few million dollars. To secure the release, the USSR had to post a bond, from which the debt was settled.

Can the plaintiffs seize a city building and put it on the market to settle the debt? Granted, finding a structure worth anything in the neighborhood of $164 million might be a stretch in these times....they might have to grab two or three. 

And then we can store illegals there instead of police stations.