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Chicago State Attorney refuses to prosecute State Inspector seen on video groping female business owner

Posted by: Chris Elliot|January 22, 2022 |Categories Caught on Camera,

CHICAGO, IL – The Cook County State Attorney has declined to prosecute a former State Inspector for groping several female business owners in the city of Chicago.

While it may not be unusual if there was no evidence, in at least one of the cases, the act was caught on video.

Jose Guillen was the only inspector for the Illinois Department of Agriculture for the Cook County area in Chicago which meant if you owned a business, you could not operate it without his approval.

This was allegedly something he loved to hang over the heads of the women business owners who’s livelihood rest in his hands.

According to the owner of Aeslin Pup Hub, a doggy daycare in Bucktown, she was the subject of two different business inspections at the hands of Guillen. Not only was her business inspected for approval to operate, but Guillen also physically inspected the owner’s body which was caught on camera.

The business owner, Leah Bindig, reported that she had been groped by Guillen to CBS News in July of 2021.

She made the report in hopes that the media would be able to bring her complaints to the forefront and hopefully protect other women business owners.

When the news of Bindig’s allegations broke, several other women business owners stepped up and filed similar complaints against Guillen.

Bindig reported her allegations to the Illinois Department of Agriculture which eventually terminated him after the media got involved.

Bindig also took her claims and video evidence to the Chicago Police Department with the hopes of pressing criminal charges against Guillen.

While many would believe with the video evidence that she produced and the other similar accounts from other alleged victims, the case would be a slam dunk.

Nope.

Six months after the criminal case against Guillen was referred to the Cook County State Attorney’s Office, Bindig was informed that they would not be pursuing any criminal charges in the case. When CBS 2’s Megan Hickey inquired why the State Attorney’s Office was not prosecuting the case, she was told they had no comment.

Bindig was extremely upset that the State Attorney’s Office refused to pursue criminal charges in her case. She said:

“So, touching my rear end wasn’t enough? Saying inappropriate comments wasn’t enough? I mean, you know, tell me, Kim Foxx [Cook County State Attorney] like, at what point, physically – how far would he had to have gone to where you say that’s inappropriate?”

CBS has tried to interview Guillen about the story, and he has refused to speak with them. However, the media outlet was able to get ahold of a video deposition he did regarding this case.

During the deposition, Guillen was asked about touching Bindig without her consent which he disputed. He claimed that Bindig had given him some type of “nonverbal consent” to touch her. Guillen said:

“Nonverbal consent, it doesn’t exist with everybody – just in this instance.”

However, later in the same deposition, Guillen changed his account of touching Bindig and claimed that he did not intend to touch her. He said that he had lost his balance and was beginning to fall and had to touch Bindig’s buttocks to regain his balance.

From review of the store surveillance video of the incident, it does not seem likely that Guillen had lost his balance when he touches Bindig’s buttocks.

But somehow, the video evidence and the fact that Guillen changed his story on how the touching occurred was not enough to pursue criminal charges against him.