In 1982, a black man slaughtered two Irish chicago cops; so naturally, black supremacist, rogue prosecutor Kim Foxx sprung the killer, got him a $17 million payout, and sought to railroad innocent prosecutors; meet the fake "exoneration" movement

war crime victims: in 1982, black racist Jackie Wilson, slaughtered Chicago Police Department officers William Fahey (above) and Richard James O'Brien (below)

N.S.: Many years ago, I started to smell a rat in the “exoneration” movement. I kept encountering black and hispanic cut-throats who were falsely “exonerated,” which was often a hoax, which consisted of no more than the media declaring that a colored cut-throat had been “exonerated,” e.g., the new york times’ claims about “the central park five.”

In another case, a black man from the rockaways, Kareem Bellamy, had been convicted of murder. Then his supporters claimed to have found a tape recording “exonerating” him. (P.S., 5/2/2024: One of the signatures of the false exoneration movement is the sudden “discovery” of previously unknown, exculpatory evidence, sometimes “found” in a case file which nobody had previously seen, or pressuring witnesses into recanting their testimony.) However, the local weekly, The Wave, exposed the tape as fraudulent, part of a criminal conspiracy of Bellamy’s supporters. Someone showed that the person on the tape recording making self-incriminating statements which “exonerated” Bellamy, was actually a completely different person, impersonating someone else, for the sake of making Bellamy sound “innocent.” When this was brought up to the presiding judge, the jurist simply said that it didn’t matter, and released Bellamy.

Bellamy has since been paid millions of taxpayer dollars in fake “restitution.” And he is of course listed on all of the pages of the self-proclaimed “innocence” projects.

In order to escape the stench of scandal due to former northwestern university professor David Protess (who conspired to frame one black Alstory Simon, in order to get off serial killer Anthony Porter, and get the death penalty abolished in the state of illinois), northwestern rebranded its “Medill innocence project” as its “Medill justice project.”

Good luck, even finding the original Bellamy story!

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Kareem+Bellamy%22&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=f821761c2da7a39d&ei=6xH6Zaq_O6WhiLMP7cSKkAU&ved=0ahUKEwjq4NufsIGFAxWlEGIAHW2iAlIQ4dUDCBE&oq=%22Kareem+Bellamy%22&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiECJLYXJlZW0gQmVsbGFteSJIAFAAWABwAHgAkAEAmAEAoAEAqgEAuAEMyAEAmAIAoAIAmAMAkgcAoAcA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

Another, much older, fake exoneration was that of racist, murderer Geronimo Pratt, who robbed and shot a White couple on a tennis court in 1970, killing Caroline Olsen, and grievously wounding her husband, Kenneth (for either $18 or $30, depending on the source), who died days later.

During the late 1990s, Pratt’s appeal lawyer, Stuart Hanlon, came up with new “evidence,” insisting that Pratt's appearance had been different than the authorities had believed it to have been at the time. Only years after Pratt had been “exonerated” and paid $4.5 million in White taxpayers’ money, was it discovered that the new “evidence” was fake because it was from a different period. The description of Pratt that had convicted him was accurate.

Why would anyone believe someone with the strongest motive to lie, when he claims, generations after the fact, to have “miraculously” found exculpatory evidence? The same thing happens again and again, in these fake “exonerations.”

Today, even the U.S. department of justice promotes the Geronimo Pratt hoax.

Good luck, even finding the original story!

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Kareem+Bellamy%22&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=f821761c2da7a39d&ei=6xH6Zaq_O6WhiLMP7cSKkAU&ved=0ahUKEwjq4NufsIGFAxWlEGIAHW2iAlIQ4dUDCBE&oq=%22Kareem+Bellamy%22&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiECJLYXJlZW0gQmVsbGFteSJIAFAAWABwAHgAkAEAmAEAoAEAqgEAuAEMyAEAmAIAoAIAmAMAkgcAoAcA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

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From: Martin Preib's Crooked City <martinpreib@substack.com>
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tuesday, march 19, 2024 at 01:32:20 p.m. edt

settlement to police killer a bailout for Kim Foxx?

"did massive payout for Jackie Wilson get negotiated to protect Kim Foxx from explaining why and how she fired two prosecutors and got them indicted?"



news and commentary about chicago you won't get from the mainstream news

settlement to police

killer a bailout for

Kim Foxx?

Martin Preib's Crooked City

mar 19

"a decision to settle a lawsuit brought by Jackie Wilson, once convicted for his role in killing two police officers in 1982, is starting to smell so bad even the Chicago media struggles to put flowers on it.

"the reason is that all the current and former prosecutors accused in the case are now dismissed from the lawsuit. That's a bizarre development given the fact that the narrative that led to two of the prosecutors being accused was falling apart, despite the best efforts of the chicago media to maintain it.

"that lawsuit was leading to one critical question that would have been asked of Kimberly Foxx under oath: What was your role in two of your own prosecutors being fired then criminally charged in connection with Wilson's criminal trial?

It's a dark but necessary question, calling yet again to a potentially sinister collusion between Foxx and her media lapdogs.

Let's review.

"former prosecutor Nick Trutenko was called to testify in yet another criminal trial of Jackie Wilson for his role in the 1982 execution-style murder of police officers William Fahey and Richard O'Brien. Trutenko had twice before prosecuted Wilson for his role in the murders.  Before he was to testify, special prosecutors in the case told the court they could not locate a key witness in the case, William Coleman, who had testified in previous trials that Jackie Wilson's brother and co-offender, Andrew Wilson, had admitted to the crimes while in county jail.

"these same special prosecutors then called Trutenko to the stand and asked Trutenko about Coleman. Trutenko matter-of-factly admitted that Coleman was not only alive, but Trutenko said he keeps in touch with Coleman and had spoken to him just a few days earlier.

A humiliating admission for the special prosecutors who said they didn't even know if Coleman was alive; the prosecutors then dropped charges against Wilson, making him a free man, immune from being tried again. An eerie attack immediately took shape against Trutenko. Within an hour of his testimony, he was fired and a listing for his job vacancy was published by early the next morning.

Now a cynical person familiar with Chicago courts might wonder if some in the courtroom were expecting Trutenko to deny he had spoken to Coleman as a way to protect the bumbling special prosecutors. A cynical person might consider that a machinery of attack was lying in wait to attack Trutenko for perjury. Why would he be so quickly fired? Why was an announcement for his job vacancy released so quickly?

Trutenko was not the only one fired. His attorney at the prosecutor's office, Andrew Horvat, was also canned.

In further signs of the most cynical view of the entire catastrophe, a special prosecutor ultimately indicted Trutenko and Horvat. How do you like that? The two prosecutors were charged with perjury, obstruction of justice, violations of the local records act, and official misconduct, in a fourteen-count indictment. It was amazing. How fast can a prosecutor under Foxx who stood as an obstacle in Foxx's mania to support the exoneration movement, who stood as a potential obstacle in the long-coveted trophy of Chicago's ruling radical left to free police killer Jackie Wilson, how swiftly could he and his own attorney be turned into potential criminals, face losing their licenses and even going to prison under Foxx?

Fortunately for Trutenko and Horvat, they obtained the legal services of some of Chicago's premier attorneys, all of them intimately familiar with the ways of Kim Foxx and the exoneration industry.

Under the stewardship of these attorneys, the criminal trial did not go well for the prosecutors against Trutenko and Horvat. Defense attorneys ripped the case apart. In doing so, the spotlight turned back on Kim Foxx.

Here's what happened. In the course of the trial, defense attorneys alleged that statements between Trutenko, Horvat, and fellow prosecutors at the Cook County State's Attorney's office were attorney-client privilege. Nevertheless, the prosecutor against Horvat and Trutenko attempted to use these statements in their case. A firestorm emerged in the trial of the two men as the judge ruled in favor of Trutenko and Horvat and assailed the special prosecutor.

In a blistering opinion that even Chicago reporters couldn't ignore, Lake County Judge Daniel Shanes ruled that Foxx's prosecutors had violated attorney-client privilege. In particular, the judge assailed the Cook County State's Attorney's office, the one headed by Kim "I can help you get out of prison for murder" Foxx.

Judge Shanes:

"'the court is shocked by the failure of the Cook county state's attorney's office to ensure their assistants know when and how attorney-client relationships form, and to take appropriate steps to make sure an attorney-client relationship only forms when one is intended. issues like these threaten the very foundation of the practice of law and undermine public confidence in the law."

"'very foundation and practice of law…undermine public confidence in the law'"?

"well, that firestorm which should have initiated a vast investigation of the case and Kim Foxx's office in particular went absolutely nowhere in the chicago press. let's refer back to the cynic again. why? why no media investigation? well, here's a possible explanation. the exoneration movement under Foxx is a house of cards. pointing out the misconduct by her office in one case could cause most, if not all, of them to similarly implode. no one would be more exposed than the chicago media, which long ago abandoned every tenet of journalism ethics to become her pr outlet and join in the war on the criminal justice system, for no city is more committed to lawfare than the emerging cesspool of the once-grand and thriving city of chicago.

"so why and what, if Foxx's office did in fact violate attorney-client privilege, does the judge's ruling say about Kim Foxx? here's what one of the defense attorneys, Terry Ekl, had to say:

"'the basis of this indictment is that Andrew (Horvat) violated the rules of professional conduct and therefore committed a felony. if Kim Foxx and her lackeys in the office violated the rules of professional conduct as it relates to attorney-client privilege, isn't that also a felony offense under the theory of this prosecution? tell me what the difference is. Kim Foxx and her people ought to be looking over their shoulder as to whether they're subject to criminal liability as well."

"Foxx 'and her people' should be looking over their shoulder?

"all of which brings us back to the settlement in the Jackie Wilson case. little discovery had been completed in the civil lawsuit Wilson brought. the criminal case against Trutenko and Horvat has imploded, un-resurrectable even for the most corrupt media in the country.

"in that civil lawsuit, Foxx was expected by many to be called to testify and likely answer some penetrating questions about her actions against Trutenko and Horvat. but all that has been eliminated by the settlement. Foxx will not have to testify. was this settlement, then, a response to Foxx and her prosecutors "looking over their shoulder"?

Wilson gets $17 million. Foxx won't have to testify.

You do the math.

Martin Preib is a retired Chicago Police officer. An author of three books, The Wagon and Other Stories from the City, Crooked City, and Burn Patterns, Mr. Preib's written work has also been published in playboy, virginia quarterly review, new city, and tin house. for his essay appearing in virginia quarterly review, Mr. Preib was awarded the Staige D. Blackford award for nonfiction in 2005. in addition to his role with the city of chicago, Mr. Preib served as the second vice president of the fraternal order of police lodge 7.

In February, 1982, black supremacist Jackie Wilson slaughtered two White chicago cops, officers William Fahey and Richard O'Brien. Wilson still exists online, but officers Fahey and O'Brien have been rendered invisible. (Update! I remembered the Officer Down Memorial Page, odmp.org, which had their photos.)