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Officer Jerome Finnigan was arrested today for planning a murder for hire. He wanted to kill another former Chicago police officer who might have testified against him. Finnigan is already facing charges of kidnapping and robbery, and he's a defendant in a civil suit as well, stemming from when he ... kidnapped and robbed Vance Estes. Estes spent 8 months in jail on bogus charges, and now he's suing.
Finnigan allegedly began planning the contract killing in July. He and another officer — who flipped, eventually cooperating with the noncorrupt authorities — planned on paying a street gang member $5,000 for what they were calling the "paint job."
On Sept. 18, while the second officer was with federal agents, Finnigan arranged a meeting at his home and said he was looking for a different hitman who would be more professional and less risky than the gang members, according to the affidavit. He also allegedly asked for help in finding a killer.On Sept. 21, during a recorded conversation in a car, the officer told Finnigan he had found a killer and needed a photo of the intended target. Finnigan supplied a photo and also agreed to retrieve the potential target's address and provide it, along with a description of the target's car, to the person who would be paid to do the killing, the affidavit states. Finnigan later agreed to pay half of the fee, according to the affidavit.
On Sept. 23, Finnigan allegedly asked the officer to return the photo and expressed his concern about being surveilled by federal agents. Finnigan allegedly discussed getting another person "taken care of," and wrote the initials of two other officers he believed were cooperating against him, the affidavit states. Finnigan allegedly said he might as well take care of all the witnesses.
Finnigan is totally getting paint jobbed in prison.
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Margaret, hate to knitpick, but you have Finnegan spelled two different ways. The po pos I knows spells it that way, but the bad po pos may spell it with an "i." You might want to double-check that.
I know po pos who disagree with this, but can we please have a mandatory four year college degree requirement for the police?
are you saying this wouldn't have happened had this guy went to college? how do you know he didn't go to college? if he didn't, you think he'd recall what he learned in philosophy 101 and determine that contracting a hit was not a good idea?
a college degree wouldn't prevent this from happening. if anything, if he was smarter, he might have been able to get away with it.
My father used to say that anyone who wanted to be a police officer was probably not fit to be a police officer. Like many things my father used to say, this seems wiser every year.
Every time I think that some Chicago cop has finally done the most disgraceful thing a cop could ever do, another one proves me wrong.
I can't imagine why any Chicagoan is afraid of terrorism. The Chicago police force is far more of a threat to the safety of the average Chicagoan than some mid-eastern religious fanatics.
Two police officers have been "hit" recently. One near Harrison and Western, the other on the south side. Any connection???