Clerk reassigns worker Crime Commission says is gang leader

Clerk reassigns worker Crime Commission says is gang leader



BY STEFANO ESPOSITO
Staff Reporter
sesposito@suntimes.com
Last Modified: Mar 3, 2012 02:10AM

Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown Friday said she has “reassigned” one of her employees identified in the latest edition of the Chicago Crime Commission’s street gang book as a leader of the Imperial Insane Vice Lords.

Brown’s response comes in the wake of a Chicago Sun-Times report Friday, in which the president of the West Suburban Chiefs of Police Association, Thomas Weitzel, expressed outrage that Brown’s employee, Maurice Henderson, had access to sensitive police documents.

Weitzel had urged Brown to ensure Henderson, who has worked for the county since 1998, has “no further contact with law enforcement documents that could be sensitive in nature,” but he stopped short of demanding Henderson be fired.

“Please know that I share the concerns of both you and the members of the West Suburban Chiefs of Police Association, and that the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County takes all allegations seriously,” Brown wrote to Weitzel on Friday. “Mr. [Henderson] has been reassigned to an administrative area. We will thoroughly review this matter to determine the proper course of action.”

Brown’s spokeswoman Jalyne Strong said later that she isn’t sure of Henderson’s “exact title,” but she said he will no longer be handling sensitive police documents.

Henderson has told the Sun-Times that he’s not in a gang and that his inclusion in the gang book is “ridiculous.”

He said he had worked at Maywood courthouse for eight years, “and there have never been any problems because I am respectful with everyone and people respect me — I’m not affiliated with any gang and I don’t favor any one gang over any other.”

County records show he was arrested in 2008 for an alleged domestic battery, and in 2011 for spitting at another man, but that both cases were dropped by prosecutors.

He believes he was unfairly accused by a reputed Imperial Insane leader who is working with police as a criminal informant, he said.

But Crime Commission President Jody Weis — the former Chicago Police superintendent — has said that “independent law enforcement agencies advised that Maurice Henderson was known to them as having leadership influence in the Imperial Insane Vice Lords.”

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Editor's note:  Jody: What about going after the "Imperial Insane Probate Lords" on the 18th floor of the Daley Center? Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com