PROBLEMS PLAGUE INTERNAL AFFAIRS DIVISION
They called themselves "The Corporation." For at least six years, between 1986 and 1992, a cadre of Shakespeare District Tactical Unit officers robbed drug dealers and split the proceeds with...
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Oct. 24, 2000: 3 unsolved slayings link police, mob crews
On a September day in 1997, a top assistant handed Chicago's police chief an inch-thick dossier of internal reports. In the file's blunt law enforcement prose, then-Supt. Matt Rodriguez encountered...
CONS, COPS ANTE UP IN HOTEL-CASINO DEAL
On a sandy cove in the Caribbean island of Curacao, ties of friendship and money bound Chicago criminals to their law enforcement chums. Together they took stakes in the Curacao...
CONNECTIONS CAST PALL OVER HOMICIDE PROBE
He kept a semiautomatic pistol under a slough of magazines by the bed of his Prospect Heights home and a blue steel revolver in the top drawer of his highboy...
SORDID TIES TARNISHING CITY POLICE
Red, white and green lights twinkled overhead as Chicago's police chief stepped onto the Brooklyn street. Supt. Matt Rodriguez beheld the last strains of the festival of San Cono, a...
PALS OF MOB ASSOCIATE STILL WEARING BADGES
Chicago police Tactical Unit Detective Joseph Laskero and Officer Anthony F. Bertuca were front-line soldiers in the city's war against vice. But while their colleagues raided the adult bookstores and...
CHARGES COP WAS SPIED ON DISMISSED
A federal judge has dismissed the petition of a former high-ranking Chicago police official who claimed the department spied on him in retaliation for his efforts to root out corruption....
CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE RULES AGAINST CITY IN SUIT TO FIRE COP
A Cook County Circuit Court judge on Wednesday turned back the city's effort to fire Chicago Police Officer Pierre Zonis, who was accused of breaking department rules by failing to...
EX-CHA REFORMER LANE IS INDICTED
Vincent T. Lane, the colorful and controversial former chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority, was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday on charges he fraudulently obtained a nearly $2...
ROBBER GETS 14 YEARS AS RING PROBE DEEPENS
It took Ted Ristich and his crew 90 seconds to rob a bank of $129,000 in 1990, but this week that quick score earned the mob-linked Chicago bank and jewel...