The Fleecing of Chicago
The Contrarian's Paul Vallas goes over some well trodden ground:
Suing the City of Chicago for alleged police misconduct has become both a lucrative racket and drain on city finances. On Monday, a Chicago jury awarded $120 million in a wrongful conviction lawsuit to two plaintiffs, both of whom spent 16 years in prison. This amounts to paying each man approximately $4 million for each year behind bars. Just last August, another Chicago jury awarded $50 million to a man who had spent 10 years in prison before then State’s Attorney Kim Foxx agreed to the dismissal of charges against him. That settlement was equivalent to a whopping $5 million per year of custody.
All three of those men were represented by a Chicago law firm that, in 2022, secured $42 million in settlements out of a total of $117 million Chicago paid out to litigants. Since 2000, Chicago has paid out $700 million in lawsuits to criminals, most of whom are guilty, for alleged police misconduct and lawyers representing the city got $138 million.
We say "well trodden ground" because Marty Preib was writing about this for years, in books and also on the Contrarian site, naming names, law firms and media whores who advocated for the release of guilty persons after witnesses died, moved out of state, or officers retired, etc. And with a willing accomplice in Crimesha, these scumbags were able to free assorted murderers via lies, omissions and perjured testimony. Someone in Crimesha's office even directed them to friendly law firms, who after securing their cut, undoubtedly made campaign contributions to assorted aldercreatures who had voted to approve "settlements."
"Fleecing" is the mildest description for the extortion and fraud that is still going on to this day.
Labels: corruption
posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
38 Comments:
Can I sue myself for being a "Dog Ass" ?
That is true. I used to serve papers for a trial lawyer, he told. me that every 3 months he had to pony up 10k cash to the party.
4 million for each year behind bars? Is that what they would have made if they had not been? I mean there has to be some sort of realistic limitations to what they're entitled to.
I'm not saying its right, I'm just saying for every other circumstance where some one has been wronged, they're not compensated too much more than what they would have earned, cover bills, fees.
Complete shake down.
It's the Chicago way...
Many years ago during a trial at 26th., an ASA was lamenting that you can’t practice law in Cook County. We said aren’t you doing so now? He said many of us are just going through the motions but not really practicing. To really practice unhindered for either side of in a case you have to get out of Cook County because of the corruption. The utterance “motion to fix” was never before the bench but behind the bench. That always stayed in my mind.
Even after the last Greylord trial in 1980 where the Feds took out over 100 judges, attorneys and court personnel for shady dealings, some things don’t seem to “smell right” in the Cook County legal system even today.
Juries in cook county and chicago have to be filled with some of the lowest IQ people in the nation. 120 million TAX payer dollars going to some scumbag? That money comes right out of the tax payers pocket you morons. Oh you need a new school in your neighborhood? You can forget it cuz it went to pookie and his lawyer.
amazing how all these innocent offenders actually gave a confession on committing the crime and how they did it,,,, happens all the time,,right??
Didn't a jury convict them? So why not hold the jury liable too?
watch "a murder in the park" on Netflix about the Anthony Porter debacle.
Open City Checkbooks.
Disgusting and despicable....to say the least.
Chicago has paid out 700 million since 2000 for these frivolous lawsuits. How much has Chicago paid out for illegals since 2022? I’m going to guess it’s a similar amount if not more. Bottom line is the Democrats love to spend other peoples money. However, the money is about to dry up from the feds.
Its wrongfully convicted not innocent.
Paul Vallas is so disingenuous. He's part of the Democrat Party, which is the party that allowed this "ghetto lottery" to occur by approving the payouts instead of fighting the suits. As usual, the Democrats are part of the graft, getting payouts from the lawyers that are involved in this.
Don’t go to CWB till after breakfast because when you see what legislators are proposing it will turn your stomach.
CPD officers weapon found unattended in a courthouse bathroom. How fucking dumb is that officer and are all of them that dumb? Seems criminals may not be the only ones fleecing us....
Bingo
So Vallas is this all seeing all knowing pol. Why didn’t he open his mouth about all this malfeasance when he was running for mayor?
Oh no we can’t speak the truth because it’s not PC
None of these people locked up are choir boys by any stretch. These payouts are beyond ridiculous considering that there are liability limits even on doctors in certain states where malpractice suits are awarded. Another big factor in these award rulings that is never considered are all the subsidies that these criminals have received over their lifetime, courtesy of the same taxpayers that now have to foot another bill for this. If you've been a ward of the state, or received any public aid -- medical, food, housing, or have been previously convicted of unrelated crimes and where housed, fed, and given medical care under any county correctional facility in the state, all of those costs should be deducted from any monetary award you receive as a result of suing the state/municipality BEFORE a payout is granted. Watch how fast these bs cases drop when the welfare thugs get a net payout of $100 after they pay back all the money they've leeched off the taxpayer.
https://thenationaltriallawyers.org/article/7-75-settlement-father-wrongly-jailed-murder/
The only evidence was his confession. Exonerated by DNA. Not only did he lose his daughter, his wife divorced him too.
Better to let the guilty go then put an innocent person in jail.
There are many good detectives, but not all of them are good (as is the case in any profession). Some detectives and prosecutors only care about the conviction, not the truth.
Great advice I got as a detective: your job is to find out who did it, and who didn't.
There all sorts of reasons why a person gives a false confession, including people of the street.
Two of Area 2's best detectives were on a high-profile case years ago and had an individual call up numerous times that he was the perpetrator, but that person could not pass the interview. They later solved the case. Hope you two are enjoying retirement.
What do expect when the entire city and county are run by black politicians they take care of their own the getto lottery. I won't be alive but I would like to see what happens when the latino community are the majority and whites will become a minority, can the whites scream racism and yell show me the money
Murder in the park is a great documentary where it all started.
The BS could stop real quick if The City issued a press release that all law suits are going to trial. That means those scummy lawyers are going to have to work and convince a jury. Stop settling.
The City did not do a proper job of explaining damages to the jury. They should have explained that they are entitled to the value they would have earned if they had not been locked up. In most cases, they are on welfare, so they get ZERO! The amount is outrageous. They did not deserve anything near a million dollars.
FYI:
J-Kitty blew off the FOP Board of Director’s meeting last week. It seems that J -Kitty is a stalker, He flew to Washington D.C. to watch Chicago’s mayor testify. My question is who paid for his airline ticket??? Did the board of director’s approve his travel to D.C.?? Did they pay for his first class air fare?? Is J-Kitty planing a run for mayor? The size of his ego is only second to his hat size.
Talk about fleecing Chicago, how about the fleecing FOP??
Chicago has had its own reparations program for years.
Ask yourself, have you made sure you answered your jury duty notice the last time you got it? Or did you find an excuse to get out of it? Or are you one of those people who doesn’t register to vote, so they won’t get called for jury duty. If so, there’s your problem.
One of the bastards that murdered Officers Richard O'Brien and William Fahey, Jackie Wilson, settled for $17 million. Claiming he and his shithead murdering felon brother were tortured by Burge, the court ignored the fact that it was the body shop owner who tipped off the cops when those two shitbirds were trying to have the car painted in a piss poor attempt to conceal their crime. The media and the court also ignored the fact that the officers service weapon — which Jackie and his brother used to shoot both cops — was found in their whore girlfriends apartment.
Um he did MANY times
Seriously. He should not have gone unless it was paid for by Trump.
A bigger concern is that was the meeting he proposed like 20 bylaw changes and then he blows off the meeting. He is attempting to throw out the immediate past president out of the lodge again. What is he a afraid of? Why is he trying so hard to get rid of all the checks a balances?? Time for full audit of the books from a out side agency other than the state fop which he has wormed his way in as first vice president!
Also fat head wants to have ALL the police departments north of I-80 to the Wisconsin boarder ans East of I-39 to Lake Michigan under his control to supply legal defense and contract bargaining! That’s his personal bylaw which he never presented to the bylaw committee. He is trying to build himself a little Kingdom of his own. Who picks the lawyers for this private kingdom of John. What wrong with just being the president of one lodge? FH has run for both president and first vice president of the national lodge. There should be a bylaw proposed that the Chicago FOP president should not hold any office other than the one in Chicago!
Loevy has friends at Corp Counsel who tell them which are the "good" cases for them to sue.
And don’t forget the black man who witnessed the entire execution from his front porch! Again I ask, why should Mrs Fahey not sue to get a piece of that ghetto lottery? Why are coppers not suing to get a piece of the ghetto lottery when they are the victim or are forced to take a shitbird out? The shitbird’s family is certainly entitled to it, and so should the coppers impacted by these savages!
Go to trial, lose (as usual) and then YOU get punitives damages assigned to YOU (for anywhere from $10K - $100K +) that the city CANNOT PAY. Still want to go to trial? Without protection to the Officers/Detectives in these trials, I wouldn't give a fuck if the city pays a billion dollars compensatory as long as I don't give these murdering fucks a penny of my money.
This is the Chicago "Machine" at work.
More made up racism keeps them getting elected.
Good business.
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