{"id":2692,"date":"2008-12-04T14:44:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T07:48:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T07:48:33","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2692","title":{"rendered":"Chicago cops bribe judge for bogus warrant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/chicago\/chi-cop-corruption-trial-20-nov20,0,7226518.story\">police corruption trial in Chicago<\/a>, one cop testified that they bribed a judge for a bogus search warrant. The judge wasn&#8217;t named. They also admitted planting drugs so their searches would not come up empty handed. At the bottom of the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was easy to steal money when drug dealers had no idea how much cash they were carrying\u2014and couldn&#8217;t complain to anyone, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers carried &#8220;insurance drugs&#8221; for the times when a suspect might swallow a bag or a search warrant came up empty, Doroniuk testified. Then what? Egan asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Plant it,&#8221; he answered in reference to the cocaine. <\/p>\n<p>As for his allegation about a crooked judge, Doroniuk said the exchange came when he used a lying informant to obtain a search warrant. He offered no detail except to say that a judge got cash on the side.<\/p>\n<p>As he began his cross-examination of Doroniuk, Pinelli asked how many people might have endured a wrongful drug conviction because of his misdeeds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; Doroniuk replied. &#8220;I never followed the cases.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2692\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}