Finnigan spoke with Chicago writer Hillel Levin for a story in the April edition of Playboy where he disavows what he said last year and laid the blame on the murder-for-hire plot on his partner, Keith Herrera. (Herrera wore a wire to gather evidence that Finnigan was the mastermind of the plot.) more ›

Finnigan was the cop at the center of numerous misconduct allegations, including robbing suspected drug dealers and orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot against a fellow officer he believed was going to testify against him. more ›

Jerome Finnigan, the former cop who was at the center of the disgraceful actions of the now-disbanded Special Operations Section, pleaded guilty to plotting a murder-for-hire of a fellow police officer yesterday. Thanks to a plea deal made public yesterday on that count and a tax charge, Finnigan will serve no more than 13 years in prison. more ›

Even though he's been in jail for nearly four years, it looks as though former Chicago Police Department Special Operations Section officer Jerome Finnigan may finally be sentenced to actual prison sentence. Finnigan and three other officers were indicted on civil rights charges yesterday related to their actions while serving on the SOS. All four are expected to plead guilty. more ›

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. more ›

A civil lawsuit lists new allegations of misconduct regarding an elite police unit whose litany of bad behavior was so extensive that it was disbanded and served as one of the reasons for Mayor Daley to hire Jody Weis as Superintendent with a mandate of cleaning up the Department. The new allegations involve an illegal search of a home in the Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest side in August 2005. more ›