Interesting Curriculum Vitae
For those who don't know the Latin, C.V. is a fancy term for an extensive résumé:
For the truly curious, here's a quick summary of the lawyer that the FOP is paying $450 an hour to, right from his publicly accessible website:
Terry Campbell focuses his practice on white-collar criminal defense, regulatory enforcement, complex commercial litigation, and criminal and civil appeals. He has more than 20 years of trial experience, and has tried numerous cases in federal and state courts, both in Chicago and around the country. Mr. Campbell provides a combination of impeccable judgement, strategic vision, and dedication to his clients and their cases. His exceptional abilities have earned Terry his reputation as one of the top white-collar defense lawyers in the community, and he has been consistently recognized in publications such as Chambers & Partners and Illinois Super Lawyers based on peer reviews of his professional skills.
Mr. Campbell has represented individuals in any number of high-profile cases during the past 20 years, including investigations and prosecutions relating to alleged fraud against the City of Chicago’s MBE/WBE program; the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill; the prosecution of former executives at Sacred Heart Hospital for violations of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute; the collapse of Sentinel Management Group (which was described by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago as the largest financial fraud case ever prosecuted in this district); securities and accounting fraud cases against a former member of the Board and Audit Committee of Safety-Kleen Corp.; a securities and bank fraud case against a former officer of First Merchants Acceptance Corp.; and many others.
That is quite the impressive history....
....but not whom we'd expect to be representing someone who has been insisting that there's nothing untoward about the books, accounts and credit card receipts that he's been hiding from membership inspection for how many years now?
Curious and curiouser to say the least, especially after admitting at the last meeting that there were "policy issue[s]" regarding the FOP expenditures
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
45 Comments:
The lodge approved this nonsense of hiring lawyers to cover J-Cat.
If there’s a little take a lot if there’s a lot take it all just ask Pallohusky
Curious and curiouser to say the least if not less,
Speaking of definitions: J Catz is the very epitome of "main character syndrome". I voted for him because I knew that he and his team would fight for us in our contact negotiations. And sure enough I got the biggest pay raise (and largest retro check) I could have hoped for. But wowie has this FOP team hit rock bottom. I fully expect for our building to be shuttered in the middle of the night and be sold off.
Why would John, I mean the FOP need a white collar crime attorney? What or whom do we need protection from?
IF you want to be President of the FOP you best start recruiting your ticket! What a great way to test them and see if they really have and skills to lead. They can walk up to the mike at the meeting and ask logical questions with follow up question. You could ask how much cash goes to police sports teams too???
So because JC has hired a competent attorney he’s presumed guilty? What kind of fucked up logic is this? Who is writing this stuff lately? A real non sequitur. Some Latin back at you.
Not very heavy on Labor law
Get rid of the fop, have never been a real union just a fraturnal org they do for themselves and no one else
if there are questions with the books, you hire a lawyer with an accounting background
if there are questions about policy/procedure, you hire a labor attorney
if there are questions about financial malfeasance by the people in charge, you hire....a white collar criminal expert.
Wow, denied a inside spot and defame anyone involved. Lets vote for them.
We should’ve went with the teamsters! Have you seen the Credit Union the police Credit Union you can’t do any transactions till tomorrow you have to reset all of your accounts because they are going digital. What does that mean cash not available! So much nonsense ever since they merged, no tellers, getting rid of everything they can for a personal experience time to move your money.
Just so you know the guy with a storefront office on Western Ave. can be an Illinois Super Lawyer too if he wants to be. All you have to do is take out an advertisement in the magazine, list your credentials and make up a few lies or exaggerate what you’ve done.
Same with doctors. Everybody thinks because their doctor is listed he’s the best. No, his practice has the best public relation people.
Hundreds should be standing in line at the NEXT MEETING to ask that question.
"I am not a crook"
The FOP is a decent national organization for police. EVERYONE else hates the police. ie: "SEIU"
We will NEVER have the power to strike. So get that out of your head. We only have arbitration and sometimes we get fucked . That's what we have to live with. The problem is the 22 people in elected positions in LODGE 7. It does not matter what the first 3 letters of the organization are.
Can't you understand that ????
Hell, even if we were the Teamsters, we would have the SAME coppers that WE elected. Try to keep up with how the process works.
Get off the couch. Go to at least half the meetings and run for a spot yourself.
All lazy coppers do is bitch.
Glad I'm retired.
Yeah, decertify FOP, the largest pro police union in the country and go with ICOPS or SEIU. Genius.
J-Cat hired hiself a "criminal" attorney...1-800 better call Saul aka Terry Campbell
If John Catanzara has done nothing wrong, why does he need to hire a criminal defense attorney? Better yet, why do we have to pay for it?
Ive said that for 35 years. F O P was and will always be full of shit and useless. Unless.... Your in the good ol boys club.
Rob NoSeNada would say, he is a great guy since he is a puppet. Good boy!
Why does he need a lawyer in the first place?
Look @ the raises on your paycheck.
Shut up Matt. Next you're gonna say that since we have the money, it's ok to steal it. Oh wait, you've already said that.
Me too! But are we really at the point that we can't have someone who stands up for us AND doesn't steal from us?
And the same board blocks members from seeing the terms of agreement the Lodge has with this attorney. Is it because it shows that our dues are paying for John's personal defense?
No mention of Labor Law or Labor Contract Negotiation or Labor Contract Enforcement....
Another SAT word: untoward
Illinois Super Lawyers, NO WAY!
I have never seen a single billboard for lawyer Campbell on any of the tollways around Chicago!
Without a large and high billboard, he is not much of a lawyer.
Wow, J Cuck slobbered all over Snelling for the cover of the *FOP* mag. Snelling hasn't been an FOP member since what, 2008? Hey, J Dork, is your BFF going to get you that job for selling us out? Hunt: not if you in the pen.
Logical questions ? Ok here’s one , John had this attorney approved by the Fop Board to represent the “lodge ?” Is he the only one named in the subpoena ?
Follow up question ; when JCat gets indicted and his cast of characters who failed their fiduciary right to protect the Lodge do they become witnesses against him , scatter into the wind or get arrested also ?
Fact of the matter is the bill which has not been rendered is becoming larger and larger and members should show up at the next meeting and demand a lot of answers !
Be careful what you wish for !
I voted for John when he first ran and I voted for him on his first re-election. I thought he did a good job at first but now he needs to go. I'm still seething over his new fucking truck he bought with FOP money when he still has the other truck bought from FOP. Now he pays $450 per hour for a lawyer. Don't we have in-house lawyers? When I need a lawyer, or need one to represent me on a CR, can I pay $450 per hour for a lawyer of my choosing and get reimbursed? This is ludicrous! He is stealing our money, he's hired a lawyer with our money, he bought new truck with our money, and nothing is being done. I heard the FBI or the main lodge might be sniffing around but I've been hearing that for a couple years now.
Ok Dave, so because we got a raise it's ok for you and your crush to steal it from us? F@&% all the way off.
Yeah and screw Jackstavich
No, our Labor Attorney is too busy fixing the lein on Jcats girlfriends car title. Members get denied legal defense while a non member gets unlimited access to our attorneys.
Be careful what you wish for. If the FOP is dissolved, we lose all our contractual guarantees and protections and start from scratch. Imagine pissing off a WC or Commander and you end up getting put on midnights or transferred to the opposite end of the city. It happened. There was no OT for court. We have only had a union since 1981. That is not a long time in the labor world. You need to find some real old timers if you want to know what it was like without a union.
Naaah! I’ll sit on the couch and bitch.
He's a lawyer. All you crybabies!! He's full of shit just like all lawyers. Get over it!
Has Cook County refuses to cut spending almost 800,000,000 more for the property taxpayers not the businesses they keep adding and adding never cutting they could easily cut some of the schools
https://wgntv.com/news/cook-county/homeowners-to-pay-bulk-of-770-million-cook-county-tax-hike/
Exactly. Vote for honest, reputable, active, non clouted officers,....and about 15 additional characteristics....
Snelling despises JCat.. just for the record. He openly while giving speeches to many people called him a coward and openly hates him.
Huge mess.
Ghetto excellence
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