Jailed Cop Threatened Fellow Inmate

By Chuck Sudo in News on Mar 31, 2011 1:00PM

Jerome Finnigan, the real-life Vic Mackey at the center of the police misconduct complaints against the now-disbanded Special Operations Section, doesn't seem to understand the "penitent" portion of "penitentiary." The Sun-Times is reporting that Finnigan has been cited for making threats to a fellow inmate at the Downtown Correctional Center, where he's been held since his 2007 arrest.

Prison officials stated in a letter to a federal judge that Finnigan was involved in an incident with another inmate Dec. 13, part of what they say is "repeated and serious disruptive behavior. Finnigan has not been indicted by prosecutors and has been reported to have been cooperating with authorities. Prosecutors have asked for 25 extensions on indicting Finnigan in the four years he's been housed at the DCC. He's also waived his right to be indicted before a certain period of time regarding a civil case. An attorney for two clients suing Finnigan said that the former cop would not waive his rights beyond Thursday.

Finnigan has been accused of kidnapping, robbery and home invasion during his time in the SOS, as part of a pattern of rampant misconduct within the unit so wide that Mayor Daley cited it as a mandate for former Superintendent Jody Weis to clean up the Department. Finnigan has also been charged in a murder for hire scheme involving a former cop he believed was testifying against him and was cited in another civil suit the other day related to his actions in the SOS.