I remember when Richie was assaulted in 83 while toy shopping on Halsted St. Richie wanted to have the assailant boiled in oil. In this case the victim was killed. Getting killed is worse than being assaulted. Where is the outrage? Shame on the Daley family for facilitating such a coverup. They should have told Vanecko to man up. Instead, they allowed him to continue acting like the pussie that he is.
Funny thing about pussies, they always cry when they're getting sentenced. I wonder if Vanecko is going to cry.
The terrible part wasn't what Nanci Koschman said about the nephew of former
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley who was finally indicted Monday in the death of
her son.
It's what she couldn't say that was terrible. It was in all those forced pauses between her words, as she talked of the political heat that pushed down upon her as she dared ask questions about how her son David Koschman died.
It was all those hard silences that were difficult to listen to, a mother who was trying to pull air into her lungs but couldn't.
"While it's a good day for what we were going for, it's still a sad day
because my son isn't going to be with us," she said at a news conference at the
Northwestern University Law School, hours after Daley nephew Richard J. Vanecko
was indicted by a special grand jury on a charge of involuntary
manslaughter.
"I never went out with the thought that R.J. Vanecko went out to hurt my son that night. But all along, the police and the detectives made it sound like it was all David's fault. And that was all I wanted — the record cleared — that David was not at fault that night. That he didn't cause his own death."
Special prosecutor Dan Webb, who in April was named to run the grand jury probe after city detectives and two successive Cook County state's attorneys either bungled or dismissed evidence before them, said it wasn't Koschman who was at fault.
It was allegedly Vanecko, who punched Koschman on the early morning of April 25, 2004, on the street near Division and Dearborn streets when their two groups got into an altercation after a night of drinking.
According to Webb, Koschman was 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed 125 pounds, while Vanecko is 6 feet 3 inches and weighed 230 pounds. It was no contest.
Even so, it could be a difficult case to prove in court. Both groups were drinking. But let me ask you this:
If the names were reversed and the little guy was a Daley and the big guy doing the punching was someone else, would it have taken eight years and a special prosecutor to get an indictment?
No. It would have taken days, not eight years.
Whether it was the punch or the fall that killed Koschman, we don't know. And we don't know if he was brain dead from the moment he was punched.
What we do know is that after he fell, he was put on life support for 11 days, which meant that there was no homicide investigation. But word was already running through the Police Department and the state's attorney's office that the suspect was the nephew of the man who held the city in his hands.
In those 11 days, according to excellent work by reporters at the Sun-Times, some detectives had time to go on furlough and other detectives picked up the case, although it took days for them to do so. Witnesses had time to change their stories and get their accounts straight.
That's what Webb is investigating now. And that might cause problems for the Chicago police and local prosecutors.
Former Cook County State's Attorney Richard Devine, who was in office at the time, told us it would be unethical for him to comment during Webb's investigation.
Current State's Attorney Anita Alvarez said her office was the first to "call for an independent investigation of this case." What she conveniently forgot to mention is that she wanted the Illinois State Police to do it, and they didn't want it, and that she resisted calls for a special prosecutor.
And Judge Michael Toomin overruled her in April.
Back in 2004, David Koschman lingered for 11 days. Finally, life support was removed, and he died in his mother's arms.
Only then, after the medical examiner ruled, was it called a homicide.
It's what she couldn't say that was terrible. It was in all those forced pauses between her words, as she talked of the political heat that pushed down upon her as she dared ask questions about how her son David Koschman died.
It was all those hard silences that were difficult to listen to, a mother who was trying to pull air into her lungs but couldn't.
"I never went out with the thought that R.J. Vanecko went out to hurt my son that night. But all along, the police and the detectives made it sound like it was all David's fault. And that was all I wanted — the record cleared — that David was not at fault that night. That he didn't cause his own death."
Special prosecutor Dan Webb, who in April was named to run the grand jury probe after city detectives and two successive Cook County state's attorneys either bungled or dismissed evidence before them, said it wasn't Koschman who was at fault.
It was allegedly Vanecko, who punched Koschman on the early morning of April 25, 2004, on the street near Division and Dearborn streets when their two groups got into an altercation after a night of drinking.
According to Webb, Koschman was 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed 125 pounds, while Vanecko is 6 feet 3 inches and weighed 230 pounds. It was no contest.
Even so, it could be a difficult case to prove in court. Both groups were drinking. But let me ask you this:
If the names were reversed and the little guy was a Daley and the big guy doing the punching was someone else, would it have taken eight years and a special prosecutor to get an indictment?
No. It would have taken days, not eight years.
Whether it was the punch or the fall that killed Koschman, we don't know. And we don't know if he was brain dead from the moment he was punched.
What we do know is that after he fell, he was put on life support for 11 days, which meant that there was no homicide investigation. But word was already running through the Police Department and the state's attorney's office that the suspect was the nephew of the man who held the city in his hands.
In those 11 days, according to excellent work by reporters at the Sun-Times, some detectives had time to go on furlough and other detectives picked up the case, although it took days for them to do so. Witnesses had time to change their stories and get their accounts straight.
That's what Webb is investigating now. And that might cause problems for the Chicago police and local prosecutors.
Former Cook County State's Attorney Richard Devine, who was in office at the time, told us it would be unethical for him to comment during Webb's investigation.
Current State's Attorney Anita Alvarez said her office was the first to "call for an independent investigation of this case." What she conveniently forgot to mention is that she wanted the Illinois State Police to do it, and they didn't want it, and that she resisted calls for a special prosecutor.
And Judge Michael Toomin overruled her in April.
Back in 2004, David Koschman lingered for 11 days. Finally, life support was removed, and he died in his mother's arms.
Only then, after the medical examiner ruled, was it called a homicide.
Any good the daleys did for chicago is completely negated by this killing and the coverup......obstruction that followed. When you consider the financial mess he left behind you have to wonder if he did any good at all or was he just another bandit.
ReplyDeleteAnita is a bought and paid for shill for the Cook County Democrat party. She does what she is told. Her Chief "Investigator" Garcia, just another State Police political hack pretending to be a policeman.
ReplyDeleteShame it took so long to indict Vanecko. It was such a blatant case of Daley manipulation. The other kid should have never been down there though. There seems to be this draw to the city by suburban kids like its cool or something. It used to be a great place. The savages rule now...and you take your life in your hands. Yes this Vanecko punk is just a typical savage. He wil probably walk but hopefully kids will learn to start spending their money somewhere other than Chicago. Sad times in the new Detroit.
ReplyDeletei hope he goes to jail and gets T-Bagged
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