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Highlight Reel:1. On Christie's chief auctioneer, Christopher Burge: "Many would die to get their hands on Burge's highly confidential 'book.' It's a sort of script for the sale. Tonight's contains sixty-four pages, one for each lot of art. A single page contains an annotated...
But as evidence began emerging that Burge enforced a quite unique form of justice, he was suspended in 1991. Two years later, he was fired, after city attorneys stood up before the police board and alleged that Burge and his crew coerced confessions out of people - including Andrew Wilson, who...
Over the years, the city has had to switch seats and take the side of the police, disputing that the city of Chicago should hand out a nickel over such claims. But Chicago has paid, and dearly - attorneys' fees and settlements have totaled in the millions - after concerns were brought...
Now that the report has been released, some bigger names may also take cover. Chicago?s Mayor, Richard M. Daley, was the county?s top prosecutor when some of the allegations were being made against Burge. The current top prosecutor, Richard Devine, was a top Daley aide and, while in...
Some are angered that Daley and Devine were not held culpable. "This report is a joke," says Frank Avila, an attorney for Aaron Patterson, who is suing the city for allegations of abuse by Burge and his men. "It is a sham by politically connected attorneys to protect the politically...