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www.radioleft.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
ELECTION FRAUD BEING PUT IN PLACE BY GOP, TRYING TO PULL IN USA PATRICK J. FITZGERALD As Brad Friedman of Bradblog notes, the GOP, running scared, is off and running on its bogus pursuit of 'voter fraud.' The 'voter fraud' non-starter, of course, has been going on for several years. Unlike the giant ills and cruelties of genuine election fraud--vote suppression via bogus campaign rhetoric;...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... Rezko trial that he had been involved in several shady deals with Vrdolyak.
U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said Vrdolyak's plea showed that no one was so deeply entrenched in Chicago's corruption-plagued power elite as to be untouchable by federal investigators.
"The notion that there are certain people in Chicago who cannot or will not be held accountable took a...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... at the Rezko trial that he had been involved in several shady deals with Vrdolyak.U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said Vrdolyak's plea showed that no one was so deeply entrenched in Chicago's corruption-plagued power elite as to be untouchable by federal investigators."The notion that there are certain people in Chicago who cannot or will not be held accountable took a serious...
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Curmudgeonly & Skeptical² (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
Feds To Monitor Election For Fraud Tased In Chicago? “ CHICAGO (STNG) ― The U.S. Attorney's Office will monitor the general election in Chicago and surrounding suburbs next Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald announced Tuesday. As part of the monitoring effort, the office will operate a hotline for candidates or the public to call to report any complaints relating to voting....
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The Eagle Nation (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
... could be on the way."Torture and abuse have no place in a Chicago police station," U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said last week in unveiling charges against Jon Burge, the tough 60-year-old former commander of the South Side's Area 2 violent crimes unit.Burge, whose name is now synonymous with the scandal, is due before U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow on Monday to be...
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Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
... could be on the way."Torture and abuse have no place in a Chicago police station," U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said last week in unveiling charges against Jon Burge, the tough, 60-year-old former commander of the South Side's Area 2 violent crimes unit.Burge, whose name is now synonymous with the scandal, is due before U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow on Monday to...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
... be on the way.
"Torture and abuse have no place in a Chicago police station," U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said last week in unveiling charges against Jon Burge, the tough, 60-year-old former commander of the South Side's Area 2 violent crimes unit.
Burge, whose name is now synonymous with the scandal, is due before U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow on Monday...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
... could be on the way. "Torture and abuse have no place in a Chicago police station," U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said last week in unveiling charges against Jon Burge, the tough, 60-year-old former commander of the South Side's Area 2 violent crimes unit.Burge, whose name is now synonymous with the scandal, is due before U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow on Monday to...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
... Florida after he was fired in 1993.“He has shamed his uniform and shamed his badge,” U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said in announcing the indictment.Burge appeared this afternoon before a federal magistrate judge in Tampa and was later released on $250,000 bond. Outside the courthouse, he said he’ll plead not guilty.Asked if the indictment came as a surprise, Burge said, “I’m...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
... after he was fired in 1993.
"He has shamed his uniform and shamed his badge," U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said in announcing the indictment.
Burge appeared Tuesday afternoon before a federal magistrate judge in Tampa and was later released on $250,000 bond. Outside the courthouse, he told reporters he will plead not guilty.
Asked if the indictment came as...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
... fired in 1993.
"There is no place for torture and abuse in a police station," U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said in a statement. "There is no place for perjury and false statements in federal lawsuits. No person is above the law and no person - even a suspected murderer - is beneath its protection."
The arrest capped a long-running controversy over allegations that...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
... he was fired in 1993. "There is no place for torture and abuse in a police station," U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said in a statement. "There is no place for perjury and false statements in federal lawsuits. No person is above the law and no person - even a suspected murderer - is beneath its protection."The arrest capped a long-running controversy over allegations that torture...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
... crimes headquarters."There is no place for torture and abuse in a police station," U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said in a statement issued after the arrest. "There is no place for perjury and false statements in federal lawsuits. No person is above the law and no person - even a suspected murderer - is beneath its protection."Burge was arrested before dawn at his home in Apollo...
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
... he was fired in 1993."There is no place for torture and abuse in a police station," U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said in a statement. "There is no place for perjury and false statements in federal lawsuits. No person is above the law and no person — even a suspected murderer — is beneath its protection."The arrest capped a long-running controversy over allegations that torture...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
... Becker, Acting
Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights
Division, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of
Illinois, and Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago
Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Today's indictment alleges that Burge lied and impeded court
proceedings in November 2003 when he provided...
